Bayes Business School
BSc (Hons) Business with Finance, First Class Honours; dissertation awarded 90% for research on machine learning and Vietnam equity return prediction.
Van Nguyen
Finance, technology, and practical systems for real-world decisions.
About
I am a final-year Business with Finance student at Bayes Business School in London, graduating with First Class Honours. My work sits around finance, technology, and analytical systems: valuation, financial reporting, market research, Python-based data analysis, and large financial datasets. I recently passed the May 2026 CFA Level II exam and registered for the February 2027 Level III exam, continuing a disciplined focus on valuation, portfolio thinking, and financial analysis.
Before university, I studied at John Paul College in New Zealand, where I first learned programming and data analysis. That background shaped how I like to work: keep the question clear, build carefully, and make the output useful.
I am especially interested in finance, risk thinking, emerging markets, automation, and practical tools that help people make better decisions.
Current Focus
Vietnam Equity Dissertation
Researching whether data-driven models can improve out-of-sample return prediction in Vietnam's equity market.
CFA Program
Passed the May 2026 Level II exam and registered for the February 2027 Level III exam, with continued focus on portfolio management, valuation, and risk thinking.
Experience
- IBM Student Consultant — led an AI implementation playbook, website, and technical explainer video for non-technical business users.
- Vinh Tien Manufacturing — supported financial reporting, invoice documentation, cash flow tracking, and reconciliation checks.
- VITIMEN — coordinated marketing operations, campaign workflows, product content, and visual quality control.
Projects
Selected work across financial modelling, investment research, data analysis, and practical technology. Each project is meant to show a specific way I turn a question into a useful output.
- Duc Giang Chemicals valuation model — DCF, comparable company analysis, WACC, forecast assumptions, and sensitivity thinking.
- Vietnam equity dissertation (Download paper) — dissertation awarded 90%, testing whether stock characteristics can predict monthly returns in Vietnam under a strict rolling out-of-sample design. The project compares linear, shrinkage, tree-based, and neural-network models; the strongest equal-weight long-short backtest reached an annualised Sharpe ratio of about 2.32 versus about 0.37-0.38 for a VN30-style market proxy.
- Dubai real estate project — machine learning on transaction-level data for pricing models and mispricing analysis.
- IBM TORCS playbook — technical communication, onboarding, and applied AI / machine learning workflow.
More code and ongoing work lives on GitHub.
Talks
Selected presentations showing research communication, technical explanation, and practical work.
Diversification research presentation
Short presentation on diversification using 60 years of daily data across 2,500 US companies.
Technical communication walkthrough
Technical communication walkthrough showing how I explain applied AI workflows and onboarding material.
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Posts
Writing is where I turn ideas, research, and questions into something more concrete. The posts below are less about personal updates and more about what I am trying to understand properly.
Bio
I am currently in London and in the final year of my undergraduate degree. I was born and raised in Ninh Binh. When I am back in Vietnam, you will most likely find me in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City. They are both places I would recommend visiting at least once.
I care a lot about emerging markets, especially Vietnam, and I want my work to stay grounded in real economic contexts rather than abstract models alone.
Outside work, I train Brazilian jiu-jitsu, judo, and wrestling. In July 2026, I won the Gi Adult / Male / White / Adult / -170 lbs division at Grappling Industries LONDON. I documented the preparation and competition build-up on YouTube: BJJ competition prep playlist.
