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Profile - Jeffrey L Skelton, Financial Tinkerer

Jeffrey L. Skelton is an inveterate tinkerer. As a boy, he wanted to be a scientist and was constantly experimenting. He survived several close encounters with the household electrical supply system in the course of his explorations and his interest in explosives thankfully resulted in no harm to the family home. That love of ways to blow things up led to a tour of duty as an U.S. Army ordnance...

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SFOs in Action - How the Richest Families Manage Their Wealth

For many of the world's richest families, SFOs - Single Family Offices - play an essential role in their investment strategy. SFOs manage the family financial portfolio and often provide other services, such as handling children's college applications, hiring domestic staff or managing the family fleet of jets. About 1,000 SFOs are in operation around the world catering to families with a least...

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Programme Information - New Directions in Quantitative Finance

19-21st May, 2008 Paris, France       This workshop will bring together leading international experts and young researchers to discuss emerging issues in derivatives modeling, portfolio optimization and risk management. This 3-day workshop will consist of plenary talks with ample discussion time to stimulate interaction between participants and ignite collaborations between US and...

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Hedge Fund Focus 14-05-08

Get the Hedge Fund Focus RSS Feed for News, Weblinks, Companies, Products, Services and Events. General News | People and Funds | Launches| Hedge Fund Activism | Crime and Law [Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssl-6-30] Resources Focus On Financial Recruitment Financial Education Financial Publishing Financial Technology Financial Services Hedge Funds Forex Financial Conferences Financial...

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A Conversation with Emanuel Derman

In his book, My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance, Emanuel Derman describes his journey from South African physicist to Wall Street financial engineer. An expert in two fields - theoretical physics and quantitative financial analysis - Derman's book was filled with stories, anecdotes and insights into two worlds that are largely incomprehensible to the average person. Derman is...

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Wiley Finance Monthly Bulletin - May 2008

In today's credit crunch conscious world, the word commodity has many meanings; for example, one might describe it as an economic good, something useful or valued, or even a mass-produced unspecialized product, to say the least! Whatever definition you might use, commodities are fast becoming the pinnacle of modern investment strategies, and with Wiley's latest commodity titles you can make sure...

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Beyond Basel II - Evaluating the Financial and Credit Risk Solution Vendors 2008

The pressure to adhere to aggressive Basel II deadlines for many first-wave institutions has meant that additional business benefits such as better management of risk/returns, enhanced pricing, and more sophisticated risk management practices have largely been left by the wayside. Celent urges firms to look beyond regulatory basics to systematically realise value from their risk management...

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Swissquote Chair of Quantitative Finance at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) invites applications for a faculty position (full professor) in the context of the newly established Swissquote Chair of Quantitative Finance. This position forms a strategic part of plans of EPFL to create a world-class research and teaching initiative in financial engineering. The successful candidate will establish and lead a vigorous...

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Does Algorithmic Trading Improve Liquidity

By Terrence Hendershott (Haas School of Business), Charles M. Jones (Graduate School of Business, Columbia University) and Albert J. Menkveld (VU University Amsterdam)       Abstract Algorithmic trading has sharply increased over the past decade. Equity market liquidity has improved as well. Are the two trends related? For a recent five-year panel of New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)...

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The Credit Crisis: Causes, Effects, and Lessons - Call for Proposals from the Gamma Foundation

BSI AG, Lugano (Switzerland), is a Swiss bank active internationally in private banking. On the occasion of its 125th anniversary, BSI created the BSI GAMMA Foundation to support academic research on issues in financial economics of interest to the field of asset management. Each year the Foundation organizes conferences on topics of special interest. In past years, the list of speakers has...

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Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management with Attilio Meucci, 4-6 June, 2008

The only heavily quantitative, omni-comprehensive, intensive buy-side bootcamp. 4-6 June 2008, 8:30am - 6:00pm Frankfurt, Germany Website. Course Highlight The course covers all aspects of quantitative risk and portfolio management from the foundations to the newest developments. Statistics: multivariate distributions, copulas, location-dispersion ellipsoid, correlation and other measures of...

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Quant Jobs and the Middle East

    As a headhunter, most of my work is helping people move to the larger financial centres, but it's not always the case... On the forums, people have been talking about Dubai, and other Middle Eastern financial centres. I can see why it is tough to get people to Dubai, even though of course it is radically different to places like Riyadh. Dubai has a much more liberal political and...

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The Winners - 2008 Financial Engineering Case Competition

A team from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School won the 2008 Financial Engineering Case Competition hosted by the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. The host team from the Tepper School and Princeton University tied for second-place at the 11th annual contest. This year's event, held April 4 at Lehman Brothers New York headquarters, was sponsored by the Tepper...

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Wiley Finance Monthly Bulletin - April 2008

We all know that the financial market place is ruthless and lightening-paced, and now is the time to get on board and grab the Bull by the horns. Welcome to Wiley's Finance & Investment newsletter. Whether you're just starting off or an old hand in the investment game, here Wiley gives you the best selling must-have titles in the field. Each author provides up-to-date information, facts and...

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Quantitative Finance Volume 8 Issue 3

Table of Contents Comment and Analysis High-frequency trading in a limit order book Marco Avellaneda; Sasha Stoikov Original Articles Multi-asset minority games G. Bianconi; A. De Martino; F. F. Ferreira; M. Marsili Price discovery in the presence of boundedly rational agents Karl Ludwig Keiber Long-memory in high-frequency exchange rate volatility under temporal aggregation David G. Mcmillan;...

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Journal of Finance Vol 63 Issue 1 (Feb 2008)

      Table of Contents Agency Conflicts, Investment, and Asset Pricing Rui Albuquerue and Neng Wang Heterogeneous Beliefs, Speculation, and the Equity Premium Alexander David Which Money Is Smart? Mutual Fund Buys and Sells of Individual and Institutional Investors Aneel Keswani and David Stolin Competition for Order Flow and Smart Order Routing Systems Thierry Foucault and Albert...

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Presentations from Fribourg Symposium on agent-based modeling, risk, and finance

        Thursday, 8th November Ton Coolen (King's College, London), Ongoing and future applications of generating functional analysis to MG-type models - pdf Stéphane Daul (RiskMetrics), How to capture risk in hedge funds - pdf Didier Sornette (ETH Zürich), A two-Factor Asset Pricing Model based on the Fat Tail Distribution of Firm Sizes - pdf Georges Harras (ETH...

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Why youth hostel showers are like the stock market

Diversity keeps you warm. At least that is true while you're having a shower in youth hostels. If you like, this sums up the research project just published by scientists from the Universities of Fribourg and Bonn. Their result is not as trivial as it sounds. Ultimately it shows that heterogeneity provides stability, whether this is in a shower, in power grids or even on the stock market. Having...

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Modelling Financial Risk

Location: London, UK. Date:2008-05-19 00:00:00. In current market conditions a rigorous approach to risk management is essential. This programme applies some of the latest econometric and data handling techniques to practical problems faced daily by organisations operating in the capital markets. The course is highly relevant to anyone analysing or interpreting financial market data.Who The...

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New Directions in Quantitative Finance

Location: Paris, France. Date:2008-05-19 00:00:00. This workshop will bring together leading international experts and young researchers to discuss emerging issues in derivatives modeling, portfolio optimization and risk management. This 3-day workshop will consist of plenary talks with ample discussion time to stimulate interaction between participants and ignite collaborations between US and...

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15th International Conference - Forecasting Financial Markets - Advances for Exchange Rates, Interest Rates and Asset Management

Location: Aix-en-Provence, France. Date:2008-05-21 00:00:00. Over the years, the FFM Conference has become a key international meeting point for those interested in Quantitative Finance, with the participation of prestigious academic and research institutions from all over the world including major central banks and quantitative fund managers. The Forecasting Financial Markets 2008 Conference...

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Conference on the Corporate Finance and Governance of Privately Held Firms

Location: BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway. Date:2008-05-23 00:00:00. Privately held firms account for the largest portion of value creation and employment in virtually any country around the world. These firms are likely to evolve and utilize governance structures and face specific financing challenges that are very different from publicly traded corporations. The objective of the...

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Asset-Liability Management

Location: Hotel Moevenpick, Prague, Czech Republic. Date:2008-05-27 00:00:00. Presented by Czech Financial Academy. - Introduction to Asset-Liability Management - Interest Rate and Spread Analysis - Funding and Liquidity Management - Measuring and Managing Rate Risk - Measuring and Managing Credit Risk - Measuring and Managing Pre-Payment Risk - Fund Transfer Pricing and Optimal Capital Allocation

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Third International Conference on Conference on Computational Finance and its Applications

Location: Cadiz, Spain. Date:2008-05-27 00:00:00. The success of the first two conferences on Computational Finance and Applications held in Bologna in 2004 and London in 2006 prompted the organisers to reconvene the meeting in 2008 in collaboration with the University of Cadiz.The Conference aims to bring together professionals and the scientific community in the fields of financial engineering...

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Conference on the Role of Money Markets

Location: Federal Reserve Bank of New York . Date:2008-05-29 00:00:00. On May 29-30, Columbia Business School and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will cosponsor a conference that brings together scholars and policymakers interested in the theoretical and applied aspects of money markets, including cross-country comparative analysis. Especially welcomed are papers that investigate the...

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The Fourth Annual (2008) European Banking Symposium

Location: Universita Bocconi, Milano, Italy. Date:2008-05-29 00:00:00. Universita Bocconi announces a call for papers for the fourth European Banking Symposium, sponsored and organized by Bocconi - Carefin (Center for Applied Research in Finance) with the assistance of ProBanker Simulations and the Department of Finance of Maastricht University. The conference will be hosted at Universita'...

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Contagion and Financial Stability

Location: Espace La Rochefoucauld, Paris. Date:2008-05-30 00:00:00. The Banque de France, the CREST and la fondation du risque jointly organise on May the 30th 2008 an international Workshop on Contagion and Financial Stability. Objectives of this workshop are threefold: to discuss the role of the institutions facing contagion phenomena; to evaluate the role played by new market participants as...

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Microfinance Workshop

Location: Kristiansand, Norway. Date:2008-06-02 00:00:00. An International Research Workshop An increasing number of academics are getting involved in research focusing on management and corporate governance of microfinance institutions. Most of this research is carried out by individual researchers who have not had the chance to get to know their peers from other countries and other academic...

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Trading and Managing Volatility

Location: London, UK. Date:2008-06-04 00:00:00. This intensive course begins with some definitions and estimation issues, and then proceeds to time series modelling, forecasting and forecast evaluation. The time series study finishes with multivariate models where correlations between assets are jointly estimated with individual volatility dynamics. The second part of the course introduces...

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Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management with Attilio Meucci

Location: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany. Date:2008-06-04 00:00:00. The only heavily quantitative, omni-comprehensive, intensive buy-side bootcamp. 4-6 June 2008, 8:30am - 6:00pm Frankfurt, Germany Website. Course Highlight The course covers all aspects of quantitative risk and portfolio management from the foundations to the newest developments. Statistics: multivariate...

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GFT Reduces Forex Spreads

GFT, a leader in online spread betting, CFD and spot forex trading services, has announced that it will now offer even more highly competitive prices, with spreads as low as one-pip wide. Effective 5 May, the company will reduce spreads on many of its currency pairs, with the EUR/USD, EUR/GBP, USD/JPY and EUR/CHF quoted as low as one-pip wide. The new pricing applies to spot forex as well as...

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Free Training - GFT Global Markets, London, UK

Free introduction to GFT Global Markets Learn the essentials of CFDs, spot forex, and spread betting and the wide range of trading services offered by GFT. The financial markets have received a lot of attention lately, due to the recent market volatility. Learn how you can begin trading many different financial instruments - as spreadbets, CFDs, or spot forex - by attending a free seminar at our...

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November Papers in Derivatives: SSRN

eDocument is available from the SSRN eLibrary for free eDocument is available, fee may apply if you or your institution do not subscribe to the publisher's journal/series     Credit Derivatives and Risk Management FEDS Working Paper No. 2007-47 Michael S. Gibson Federal Reserve Board Date Posted: November 29, 2007 Joint Modeling of Call and Put Implied Volatility Katja Ahoniemi and...

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Hedge Fund Management and Performance Fees

    Greater Reward for Hedge Fund Managers. Everyone who compares a hedge fund's offering documents with those of a mutual fund cannot ignore the enormous difference in rewards for the managers of hedge funds versus those of mutual funds. Mutual Funds. As mutual funds (and closed-end funds) may offer their securities to the greater investing public, their managers are severely...

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List of Sample Questions for Quant Interviews

Question #1 (statistics) How do you test whether a data sample is normal or not? (Comment: this tests your knowledge in basic statistics; there are several different methods to test normality.) Question #2 (math) Show that a set is convex if and only if its intersection with any line is convex. Show that a set is affine if and only if its intersection with any line is affine. (Taken from chapter...

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Mixing Investment Adviser and Brokerage Services

Trendy money managers and brokers take on the role of chief cook and bottle washer when they opt to be all things to all clients. In the context of this article, we are interested in those situations when they opt to be their client's broker (or introducing broker) and investment adviser (either to a fund or private client). By becoming a broker, the money manager can significantly increase his...

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Profile: Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive ( MiFID ) will introduce a single market and regulatory regime for investment services across the 30 member states of the European Economic Area (the 27 Member States of the European Union plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein). There are 3 objectives to be met by the Directive. First, to complete the process of creating a single EU market for...

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The Wharton Global Family Alliance

The Wharton Global Family Alliance develops in-depth academic research focused on family businesses, primarily in the areas of governance, philanthropy, and wealth management.

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Volante Technologies

New York, USVolante Technologies provides Data Management solutions for the Financial Services industry.

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Vhayu Technologies

London, GBVhayu designs software solution powerful and scalable enough to simultaneously capture and analyze every tick of financial market data in order to make faster trading decisions.

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Real-Time Innovations

Sunnyvale, USInfrastructure for High-Performance Trading.

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Theory and Practice of Model Risk Management (2002, pdf)

By Riccardo Rebonato - Financial institutions are obviously concerned about the possibility of direct losses arising from mis-marked complex instruments. They are becoming even more concerned, however, about the implications that evidence of model risk mismanagement can have on their reputation, and their perceived ability to control their business.

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Sample Paper in Econometrics

This is a sample research paper for an introductory course in econometrics. It shows how to communicate econometric work in written form. The paper integrates many writing instructions and rules into a single example and shows how they all fit together.

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