Cole Stoeppelwerth

I am Junior enrolled at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University with a major in Risk Management (Real Estate option) with a cumulative 3.21 GPA.  I was born in Argentina but have dual citizenship for the United States and Argentina, and I am fully bilingual in English/Spanish. My work experience includes three separate internships in fixed and macroeconomic research, an asset management firm and a policy think tank for the Juntos Por El Cambio party. In addition, I am a college athlete and starting member of the D1A Penn State men's college rugby team.

WORK EXPERIENCE                                                                                                                                               

Novus Asset Management, SA                                                                           Buenos Aires, Argentina

Full-time Asset Management Intern                                                                           May 2023 – July 2023

• Performed a research project for the Senior Portfolio Manager to build quantitative bond calculators of Argentine sovereign bonds under different future debt restructuring scenarios.
• Constructed, populated and maintained Excel spreadsheets with CPI linker, fixed rate and variable rate bonds to create and update bond yield curves for the Novus portfolio management team.
• Worked under the direction of the Corporate Sales Director to research and identify leads for prospective clients for the Novus Asset Management group of mutual funds. Compiled industry sector databases to group potential clients by size, geographical location and product/service specialization.

Portfolio Personal Inversiones SA                                                                     Buenos Aires, Argentina

Full-time Research Intern                                                                            October 2021 – December 2021

• Assisted team of senior analysts in database management of economic and financial statistics for various publications by PPI’s research department
• Built and updated Excel spreadsheets with economic and financial inputs and developed a series of charts by manipulating this data based on moving averages and time frame analysis to compare discrete data sets in order show correlations and relationships over time.

Fundación Pensar                                                                                                Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Part-time Research Intern                                                                                    July 2021-December 2021

• Primary responsibility was to undertake specific independent research projects to enable Fundación Pensar think tank professionals to better understand the private sector dynamics in key electoral districts in the Province of Buenos Aires.
• Developed a 70-page profile of the economic activities in the fifteen most populated districts in the Province of Buenos Aires. Performed in-depth searches of academic and public policy documents describing the key industrial and service sectors in each of the selected localities.
•  Identified and described the leading companies operating in each borough so that officials from Fundación Pensar could pinpoint and contact key business leaders in the next national election cycle.

EDUCATION                                                                                                                                                                                                 

The Pennsylvania State University                                                                                                     University Park, PA

Smeal College of Business                                                                                              Expected Graduation May 2025 

Intended Bachelor of Science in Risk Management (Real Estate Option)                                                          GPA: 3.21

Saint Andrews Scot School                                                                               Graduated  December 2019

Olivos, Argentina