Laura O. Malváez Peñaloza

Ms. Laura O.
Malváez Peñaloza is a Vice President at First Principles Capital Management LLC (FPCM).
She has over 12 years of experience in derivatives modeling and trading and insurance-related asset management.
Since joining FPCM in 2015, Ms. Malváez-Peñaloza has focused on derivatives overlay strategies.
She is also a member of the portfolio management team focusing on interest rates and inflation markets.
Prior to joining FPCM, she was a senior derivatives trader at Ignis Asset Management, a Standard Life company, in the cross-assets trading group.
She also worked at Barclays Capital in London as a Quantitative credit analyst focusing on pricing structured and exotic derivatives deals.
She started her career as a quantitative analyst for the Sociedad Hipotecaria Federal in México City.
She earned a Master of Science degree in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing from the University of Oxford, UK and a degree in Actuarial Science from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México with distinction.