Second-year Financial Risk Management student at Queen’s University Belfast, graduating in 2029. I research companies, look for where sentiment and fundamentals disagree, and back my conclusions with my own portfolio.
AMC Entertainment
NYSE: AMC · Entry $2.10
▲ 40%
since entry
Microsoft
NASDAQ: MSFT · Entry $369
▲ c.35%
since entry
I’m a second-year Financial Risk Management student at Queen’s University Belfast, graduating in 2029 and seeking a finance placement for 2027. My degree gives me the quantitative core that research depends on — Maths for Finance, Actuarial Mathematics and Excel Analysis — and I build on it outside lectures through the Bloomberg Terminal, the Student Managed Fund and my own portfolio. I’ve completed Bloomberg Market Concepts and Bloomberg Finance Fundamentals, and I’m leading our team in the 2026 Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge.
What draws me to finance is the challenge of forming a view the market hasn’t yet priced in. That approach led me to AMC Entertainment, where I believed a “meme stock” reputation was masking a cinema recovery and falling debt, and to Microsoft, where I judged fears over capital expenditure to be overdone. Both positions are now comfortably in profit.
I manage my own portfolio and take positions where my research suggests the market is mispricing a company — then hold myself to the result.
Over two years of lifeguarding: responsible for public safety, working in a team and making quick judgement calls in a sometimes high-pressure environment.
BSc (Hons) Financial Risk Management
A-Levels · Magherafelt
Mathematics for analytical rigour, Economics for market context and Chemistry for structured, evidence-led problem solving.
Two positions from my personal portfolio and the reasoning behind them, plus the team I lead in the Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge and my role in the university’s Student Managed Fund.
NYSE: AMC · Cinema operator
NASDAQ: MSFT · Software & cloud
Team Leader
I lead our team in Bloomberg’s five-week trading competition for university students worldwide, managing a virtual US$1 million portfolio on the Bloomberg Terminal. I coordinate our research, bringing each member’s ideas together with expert opinion to reach the best trading decisions.
Member · Queen’s University Belfast
An active member of the university’s student-run investment fund. I contribute to its investment research and portfolio discussions, sharing ideas from my own analysis and gaining exposure to the full investment process, from company research to portfolio decisions.
Personal positions, shown to illustrate my research process. Returns are approximate, as at September 2026. Nothing on this page is investment advice.
Greenvale Leisure Centre, Magherafelt
Splash, Moneymore
Responsible for the safety of pool users over six months, held alongside my Greenvale role from July 2024.
Experience using the Bloomberg Terminal for research, including the Bloomberg Excel Add-in for pulling market data into spreadsheets. I have completed Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC), covering Economic Indicators, Currencies, Fixed Income and Equities, and Bloomberg Finance Fundamentals (BFF).
Knowledge of options and other derivatives, reinforced by building web apps for options pricing models.
Completed a Claude AI coding course designed for finance, building web apps for options pricing models, PowerPoint presentations on IPO trends and data analysis projects.
Excel Analysis is a core module of my degree, and I use the Bloomberg Excel Add-in in my research. I have begun learning Python, which I expect to strengthen my analytical work.
A frequent hiker and member of the Queen’s Hiking Society. I have summited Carrauntoohil, Ireland’s highest mountain, four times.
A member of the Queen’s Poker Society, where I apply risk management and critical thinking to decisions made with incomplete information.
A keen follower of Formula 1 and GT3 racing. In 2026 I attended the 24 Hours of Spa in Belgium and drove a Formula 4 car at Brands Hatch.
I’d welcome a conversation about placements, insight days or anything on this page. Email is the quickest way to reach me.
Queen’s University Belfast · Class of 2029