Michael Zhuang

MZ Capital

Michael Zhuang is Founder, President and Chief Investment Scientist of MZ Capital. Michael developed the MZ Deep Value Fundamental Strategy (MDVFS) based on various academic studies. Michael uses this strategy to manage his clients' investment assets. The return of this strategy has been more than twice that of S&P 500. Michael's typical clients are small business people and busy professionals like doctors and lawyers. They come to Michael because of one of the following three reasons:

1) They have sizable investment assets, and they are too busy to manage them well
2) They like the returns Michael has been getting for his clients
3) They are not happy with their financial advisers who charge them a fee to allocate their money among different money managers who charge them another fee to under-perform the market

Prior to founding MZ Capital, Michael was a senior trader with PG&E National Energy Group from 2000 to 2003, where he was responsible for starting the weather-trading desk. He worked with risk management, confirmation, settlement, legal and accounting departments to set up the transaction process and proper back office supports. He developed risk management guideline and Value-at-Risk measurement for review and adoption by risk management department. He developed a suite of cutting edge proprietary weather-trading software.

Michael achieved significant market presence after only one year in the market, accounting for 1/6 of total trades in the weather derivative market. Notably, this result was achieved in a profitable manner.

Prior to NEG, Michael was co-founder of Optionvol.com Inc. (1999 - 2000), and a financial engineer with FIMAT, Societe Generale Group(1998-1999).

Education

Michael has a Masters degree in Mathematics and a Masters degree in Computational Finance from the Carnegie Mellon University. He was also a PhD candidate in Financial Economics there.

Other Organizations

Michael is active in civic and charitable organizations. He is a China Advisory Board member of Hope International, a global, faith-based, non-profit organization focused on poverty alleviation through microfinance. He is President of  Vagabond Toastmasters Club. He is also an active member of The Greater Bethesda Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce and Bethesda Chevy Chase Rotary Club. He also represents the company in the Greater Washington Board of Trade.