Bayes Business School
Final-year BSc Business with Finance student in London, building a stronger quantitative and research-led focus.
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 in 2026. My work sits around finance, technology, and analytical systems: financial modelling, investment research, data analysis, and workflows that make messy problems easier to understand.
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 Level II
Building on Level I with deeper work in investment analysis, portfolio thinking, and disciplined financial study.
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 — machine learning research using a large financial dataset, model comparison, and out-of-sample evaluation.
- 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.