{"id":3680,"date":"2007-12-01T11:04:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:01:53","slug":"raul-a-zubillaga-bba-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2007\/12\/raul-a-zubillaga-bba-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Raul A. Zubillaga (BBA &#039;82)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"155\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/newsletters\/BusinessNetworks\/2007\/12\/images\/RaulZ_1.jpg\" alt=\"Raul A. Zubillaga\" width=\"142\" height=\"198\" \/><br \/>\n<span><strong><em>Raul A. Zubillaga<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Areas of study:<\/strong> Finance and investment banking<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional education:<\/strong> In 1993, he earned the designation of  Chartered Financial Analyst<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current employer: <\/strong>CitiTrust<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: <\/strong>Managing Director and Chief Trust Investment  Officer for Global Wealth Structuring<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here to there: <\/strong>Zubillaga has more than 25 years of experience in the financial industry.\u00a0Before joining Citi in 2001, he was with Banco Santander Central Hispano International. He held various positions of increasing responsibility; most recently, he was director of asset allocation and advisory services. In this role, he was responsible for creating and implementing a new business model and product, Asset Allocation and Advisory.\u00a0 The business model focused on client services and not on the investment product.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current job responsibilities: <\/strong>Responsible for investment oversight in discretionary trusts and for overseeing the trust accounting department, which manages more than 300 accounts and billions of dollars in investments world-wide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The college\u2019s  influence<\/strong>: \u201cIt provided a very strong technical education and, back in 1982, there were very few jobs in the Miami area in corporate finance.\u00a0 My technical knowledge was specifically tied to my education and was a key factor in my getting an internal auditing position.\u201d <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite aspect  of job: <\/strong>\u201cTaking over the large  responsibility, from A-Z, in controlling<strong> <\/strong>the investment process.\u201d<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Affiliations: <\/strong>President (1999\/00) of the Miami Society of Financial Analysts; member of the local chapter of the Association of Investment Management and Research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice given to  those wanting to enter the wealth structuring sector<\/strong>: \u201cPersistence and focus are critical because  there are a limited number of jobs in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raul A. Zubillaga Areas of study: Finance and investment banking Additional education: In 1993, he earned the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst Current employer: CitiTrust Title: Managing Director and Chief Trust Investment Officer for Global Wealth Structuring Here to there: Zubillaga has more than 25 years of experience in the financial industry.\u00a0Before joining Citi in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,4551,865],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24198,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions\/24198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}