Rodolfo Oviedo Finance professor and consultant
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Summary: PhD in Finance. I lived for 5.5 years in the USA and Canada with English-speaking people. I attended classes and wrote my thesis in English. I have 18 years of teaching experience at the top-3 private universities of my country and 10+ years in the financial industry (investment banking, valuation of companies, debt restructuring, bonds, derivatives, quantitative analysis, risk management) as a full-time officer or consultant. I have 4 years of online teaching experience, lately at Classgap. You can google Rodolfo Oviedo Classgap, open my page and check what students say about my classes and the unanimous 5-star rating by 40+ students.
After my bachelor's degree in financial accountancy and economics, and public accountant certification, I did a Master in Finance. A lecturer of this master's program, who was an investment banker, hired me to work with him in the Latin American Investment Banking Group of Banque Nationale de Paris. There I worked, on the one hand, as a quantitative analyst of bonds, derivatives and investment portfolios and, on the other hand, in the analysis and valuation of companies, debt restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions.
I quit my full-time job in the bank to work full time as a lecturer at Universidad Austral, Argentina, while still working for the bank one day a week. I wrote the teaching material for all my classes. I also started to teach Financial Derivatives in a Master of Finance program at Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina.
Universidad Austral and a local oil company that I had advised in price risk management funded my studies at the University of Chicago. After that, the Institute of Financial Mathematics of Montreal (IFM2) funded my doctoral studies. My thesis was included in the Dean's Honour List. My research has been published in the top-five academic journals of finance.
Back in Argentina, I taught at the aforementioned universities for 12 years. Now, I work as a freelance financial advisor and quantitative modeller and programmer. I enjoy one-to-one online teaching. Most students come to me for help in solving assignments. Usually, I share my screen while I solve the problems in Excel or an agile formula editor. I make formulas intuitive, derive them if required, explain the rationale of all that I do, and encourage to ask all the necessary questions. I also help students to make sense of theoretical material.

Subjects

  • Finance Beginner-Expert

  • TVM (Time value of money) Beginner-Expert

  • Finance Derivatives Beginner-Expert

  • Bonds Beginner-Expert

  • Markowitz Portfolio Optimization Beginner-Expert

Experience

  • Star Professor ("He is one of our most popular teachers") (Jan, 2018–Present) at Classgap
    Unanimous 5 stars out of 78 student ratings
    Online Finance classes: time value of money, bonds, derivatives, risk management, corporate finance, international corporate finance, and international investments.
    To book classes, google the following words: Rodolfo Oviedo Classgap. Click the first result.
  • Principal (Sep, 2017–Present) at Quantitative Finance Services
    Consulting in risk management and derivatives.
    Valuations of exotic derivatives.
    Programming.
  • Full Professor, ROFEX Chair of Derivatives (Feb, 2005–Aug, 2017) at Universidad Austral, Rosario, Argentina
    • Research, Published in Top-5 Journal of Finance
    • Teaching Finance II and III to Undergraduate Students
    • Teaching Derivatives in MBA and Master in Agribusiness
    • Thesis Director of Doctoral and Undergraduate Students
    • Advisor in Industry Internships of Undergraduate Students
    • Referee of Multiple Academic Journals
    • Consulting (Delloitte, Citibank, Banque Nationale de Paris, Rosario Futures Exchange, risk management of oil and milling companies, etc.)
  • Associate Professor (Jul, 1999–Jul, 2000) at Universidad Austral, Rosario, Argentina
    • Teaching Finance II and III, including Portfolio Theory, Asset Pricing, Derivatives, Bonds and Capital Structure.
    • Teaching Risk Management of Agricultural Companies in the Postgraduate Program in Agribusiness.
    • Member of the Theses Committee of the Bachelor of Science in Business program.
  • Assistant Professor (Feb, 1994–Aug, 1998) at Universidad Austral, Rosario, Argentina
    • Teaching Finance II and III, including Portfolio Theory, Asset Pricing, Derivatives, Bonds and Capital Structure.
    • Teaching Risk Management of Agricultural Companies in the Postgraduate Program in Agribusiness.
    • Special topics in finance (On the determination of the hurdle rate for project evaluation and on the Financial Structure Policy) in the Postgraduate Program in Business Administration, in the Postgraduate Program in Operations Management and the Postgraduate Program in Agribusiness.
    • Consulting for Banque Nationale de Paris - New York - Latin American Investment Banking Group - Bs. As. Office
  • Associate (Oct, 1991–Jan, 1994) at Banque Nationale de Paris - New York - Latin American Investment Banking Group - Bs. As. Office
    • Evaluation of the early repayment of a loan secured by bonds.
    • Advising a company in the process of restructuring its debt with banks.
    • Evaluation of the system for price risk control of the bank's financial asset positions.
    • Evaluation of the setting up of a brokerage company.
    • Valuation model for sovereign bonds to be restructured.
    • Development and computer implementation of valuation models applicable to all Argentinean bonds issued in dollars.
    • Valuation of a company to take a position in an Initial Public Offering.
    • Launch of a Euro-Commercial-Paper.
    • Monitoring of M&A transactions. Drafting of Information Memorandums.
    • Financial analysis of financial statements.
    • Improvement of existing models for the financial evaluation of companies.
  • Intern (Aug, 1990–Feb, 1991) at Shell oil company, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Evaluation of investment projects.
    • I presented a report proposing to change the way of calculating the tax inflation adjustment in projects evaluations to a more accurate and simpler one.
    • Evaluation of the convenience of financing with loans from the parent company vs. reinvestment of profits taking into account tax factors.

Education

  • PhD in Finance (Sep, 2000–Mar, 2005) from McGill University, Montreal, Canada–scored Honours
  • MS in Financial Mathematics (Aug, 1998–Jul, 1999) from The University of Chicago–scored 3.92/4
  • Master en Finanzas (Mar, 1991–Dec, 1991) from Ucema, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Contador Público (Feb, 1985–Dec, 1989) from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

Fee details

    Peso7,800–9,300/hour (US$7.67–9.14/hour)

    I charge 27 USD for a single 1-hour class. For packages of 5 or 10 hours of classes paid in advance, I charge 24 or 21 USD/hour, respectively.

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