Mahsa Rahimi

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Passed CFA Level I

• ISSS Scholarship, Illinois State University 2022
• Tuition Waiver Scholarship- Department of Economics, Illinois State University 2022
• Chicago CFA Institute Scholarship 2021
• CFA Institute Access Scholarship 2021
• Ranked 104 in National University Entrance Exam, Finance, Graduate (30,000 participants) 2016
• Ranked 95 in National University Entrance Exam, Undergraduate (500,000 participants) 2011
• The Petroleum University of Technology, Full Undergraduate scholarship 2011-2015

• University of Illinois Community Volunteer to Helping New Students Program 2020-Present
• University of Illinois Iranian Music Heritage Community Volunteer 2022-Present
• University of Illinois Iranian Music Concert (09/03) Committee 2022-Present
• University of Illinois Iranian Cultural Association Community Volunteer 2020-2022
• Penn State University - Iranian Student Association Community Volunteer 2018-2020
• Penn State University- Iranian Student Association Nowruz Community Committee 2019
• Scientific Association Officer School of Accounting and Finance 2013-2015
• Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony Committee 2015

• Portfolio Management, Oversing a collection of financial assets, including stocks, bonds, and other securities, and making investment decisions to achieve the client's financial goals. Setting portfolio contracts, analyzing and reporting the portfolio's performance measures and evaluation on a daily, monthly, and annual basis, as well as managing mutual funds and calculating their net asset values (NAV) to provide accurate reporting and analysis to clients.
• Risk Assessment and International Finance, Involved valuing call and put options using various models, decomposing option premiums, and calculating the value and Greek letters of a financial institution's position in European call options on the Japanese yen.
• Financial Economics Analysis, Analyzing the relationship between forward premium return and realized returns based on spot rates, using time-series and regression analysis, including testing the Cumby-Obstfeld/Fama specification and evaluating the statistical significance.
• A Panel Data Econometric Analysis using R, Examining the casual relationship between Unemployment and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic, utilizing Instrumental Variable Regression approach, Ordinal Logistic Regression models and Predictive Analysis.
• A Panel Data Econometric Analysis using Stata, Presenting regression analysis results based on U.S. firms' yearly financial data from Jan 2018 to Jan 2022, and examining whether investment decisions differed in areas with lower and higher COVID-19 cases. Utilizing Causal Inference methods, Difference-in-Difference Estimation.