Ruben Smit
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Banking |
| Occupation | Portfolio Manager Fixed Income |
| Location | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Introduction | I was born in the heart of the great yet also small cosmopolitan city of Amsterdam in 1971, the year Ajax won its first Europa Cup 1 and John Lennon wrote Imagine and Jealous Guy. I spent one year in college in the US of A (in Galesburg, Illinois 61401) at a truly nice liberal arts college: Knox. My real education was however at the 'red' University of Amsterdam and at my fraternity HEBE; (it stands for excelling in the honest and the good), which supposedly was full of boys reading really important and voluminous books. As if. Married to a real red haired psychologist and proud father of a little girl that will be red as well! After my studies a worked at ING for 10 years before ending up at SNS Asset Management, the biggest socially responsible / ethical investment company in the Netherlands as Portfolio Manager Fixed Income (Financials) and member of the Investment Committee for the SNS Institutional Microfinance Funds. I spent several years editing the party monthly for the Amsterdam section of the Dutch Liberal Party (VVD)was the secretary to the national economics, finance & small and medium-sized enterprise advisory board of the same Liberal Party. |
| Interests | Politics, Science Fiction, Economics |
| Favorite movies | Goodfellas, Dr. Strangelove, Magnolia, 21 Grams, Koyaanisqatsi, Platoon, Reservoir Dogs, Akira, The Seven Samurai |
| Favorite music | Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Beatles, Queen, the Orb, |
| Favorite books | The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene), The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene), Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler), The Rules of Attraction (Brett Easton Ellis), Nostromo (Joseph Conrad), Kaas (Elsschot), De Verlossing (Elsschot) |