Allen modernized trading and back office operations at Sprott, which Globefund named Sprott Canadian Equity Fund the #1 Fund in Canada for ten-year return, March 2009
Allen joined Sprott Asset Management LP, an asset management firm, as a Project Manager in August 2005. Here he modernized trading and back-office operations, beginning with a Charles River (OMS) system implementation. Allen currently manages the SAM Investment Systems team, and supports new business initiatives. Allen has over 11 years of investment industry experience. Prior to SAM, he began his career at State Street Canada managing the derivatives accounting and valuations team. In project roles within the Investment Business Solutions team of AEGON/Transamerica, successes included developing an in-house fund-of-fund trading application, migrating external derivative models and valuations to the PAM accounting system, and exploiting PAM’s Software Developer Kit to extend system functionality and more effectively meet the needs of the business. At CIBC World Markets, Allen contributed to an upgrade of Murex, a system key to their global derivatives business. Allen graduated with honours from York University’s Schulich School of Business, and there obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with studies focused in management, finance, and technology.