Associate (m/w) Advisory für Bewertungsfragen im Financial Risk Management bei KPMG Frankfurt
Ihre Perspektive: Ist Risikomanagement bei Banken Ihr Thema? Dann sind Sie bei uns genau richtig.
Ihre Aufgaben: Die Analyse und Entwicklung von Modellen für die Derivatebewertung und das Risikomanagement bilden Ihr Betätigungsfeld. Hier übernehmen Sie frühzeitig Verantwortung in Projekten zur fachlich-orientierten Beratung und Prüfungsunterstützung im Investment Banking,
Treasury, Kreditmanagement, Risikocontrolling. Ihr analytisches Verständnis und Ihre Kreativität ermöglichen es Ihnen, innerhalb kurzer Zeit Problemstellungen zu strukturieren und zu lösen. Sie arbeiten in einem hoch qualifizierten und ambitionierten Team. Ihre Arbeitsergebnisse entwickeln und diskutieren Sie mit dem Mandanten, bei dem Sie Ihre Lösungsvorschläge in hochrangig besetzten Gremien präsentieren und vertreten.
Ihr Profil: Sie haben ein Universitätsstudium der Mathematik, Wirtschaftsmathematik, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Physik, BWL oder VWL mit quantitativem Schwerpunkt absolviert und Ihre überdurchschnittliche Qualifikation z.B. durch einen sehr guten Abschluss und/oder eine Promotion bewiesen. Sie haben Interesse an der Weiterentwicklung von Modellen, die die Bewertung und das Risikomanagement von neuen Produkten und in neuen Märkten ermöglichen. Der effiziente Einsatz numerischer Verfahren wie Monte Carlo Simulation und deren Umsetzung in C++ ist Teil Ihrer praktischen Erfahrung. Sie verfügen über außerordentliche analytische Fähigkeiten und haben großen Spaß daran, ständig neue Dinge zu lernen und zielorientiert umzusetzen. Sehr gute Englischkenntnisse setzen wir voraus. Sie sind sicher im Auftreten sowie team- und kundenorientiert. Ein Auslandsaufenthalt und/oder relevante Praktika runden Ihr Profil ab.
Für weitere Rückfragen steht Ihnen das HR Service Phone unter 0 800 KPMG JOB (0 800 5764 562) zur Verfügung.
Profitieren Sie von den Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten bei KPMG, einem weltweiten Verbund national selbständiger Mitgliedsfirmen. Neben abwechslungsreichen Projekten im In- und Ausland bieten wir Ihnen Raum für Ihre persönliche Weiterentwicklung. Mehr wissen, mehr können - bei uns hat Erfolg, wer team- und mandantenorientiert arbeitet und gleichzeitig seine persönliche Entwicklung vorantreibt.
Einen Front-Office Entwickler Java/C++ (m/w) bei Quanteam
Quanteam ist eine kleine Beratungsfirma, die sich auf die Entwicklung von quantitativen Modellen im Finanzwesen, sowie deren Integration in die IT-Systeme eines Finanzinstituts spezialisiert hat. Die Stärke von Quanteam liegt in der Vereinigung von Kompetenzen aus den Bereichen angewandte Finanzmathematik und Informationstechnologie. Unsere Kunden erwarten von uns hochwertige Lösungen aus einer Hand. Wir setzen dies um, von der ersten Idee über die Konzeptionierung bis hin zur professionellen Implementierung, Live-Stellung und anschliessenden Betreuung. Nach unserer Gründung 2003 haben sich schnell erste Erfolge eingestellt, so dass wir uns nun weiter personell verstärken wollen. Hierfür suchen wir einen Mitarbeiter mit folgendem Profil:
Einen Front-Office Entwickler Java/C++ (m/w)
Das wird Sie inhaltlich erwarten
Die fachliche und technische Weiterentwicklung einer von Quanteam entwickelten Java-basierten Anwendung im Front-Office-Umfeld einer Bank.
Entwicklung von Pricing-Sheets und anderen Tools.
Support und Weiterentwicklung aller Entwicklungsergebnisse, die im Laufe der Zeit entstehen.
Sie verfügen über
Ein Studium der Informatik oder Naturwissenschaften, dass Sie mit sehr gutem Erfolg abgeschlossen haben.
Berufserfahrung im Handelsumfeld von Banken oder Finanzdienstleistern.
Sehr gute Kenntnisse in Java und nachweisbare Praxis im Umgang mit J2EE. Idealerweise haben Sie in mindestens in einem J2EE-Projekt gearbeitet und ggf. auch Frameworks wie bspw. "Spring" eingesetzt.
Ergänzend gute bis sehr gute Kentnisse in C++.
Allgemeine Kentnisse der üblichen Entwicklungstools, wobei Sie auch IDE-freie Umgebungen wie Makefiles oder Ant vor keine größeren Probleme stellen.
Sehr gute Eigenmotivation, in kleinen Teams zu arbeiten und dabei selbständig und eigenverantwortlich Aufgaben in interessanten Projekten zu übernehmen und zu lösen.
Einen starken Kundenfokus. Dazu gehört ein gutes Mass an Kommunikationsfähigkeit, keine Angst davor, eigene technische Realisierungsideen vorzustellen, zu vertreten und zu implementieren.
Wir bieten Ihnen
Vom ersten Tag an arbeiten Sie selbständig in langfristigen Beratungsprojekten in den Bereichen Entwicklung von Front-Office-Technologien, Integration von Handelssystemen, Grid-Systeme und
der Entwicklung von Bewertungsmodellen für Finanz-Derivate mit.
In der täglichen Zusammenarbeit mit einem hochqualifizierten Team, das Wert auf Wissenstransfer und Ideenaustausch legt, werden Sie Ihre vorhandenen Fähigkeiten zügig weiter ausbauen können und müssen.
Zusätzlich unterstützen wir Ihre Weiterqualifikation mit einem auf Ihr
Profil zugeschnittenen Fortbildungsprogramm.
Bewerbungen schicken Sie bitte unter Angabe des frühestmöglichen Starttermins, Ihrer Gehaltsvorstellung und sonstigen Anlagen an folgende Adresse:
Gerne nehmen wir Ihre Unterlagen auch per eMail entgegen (vorzugsweise im PDF-Format), bitte richten Sie diese an . Wir erwarten von Ihnen im Rahmen der Bewerbung oder des ersten Vorstellungsgesprächs eine Arbeitsprobe (bspw. Quelltexte), die Ihre Stärken und Kenntnisse herausstellt.
Telefonische Anfragen beantwortet Ihnen Herr Sören Gerlach unter 0170 962 66 53.
Mathematiker (m/w), Physiker (m/w) oder (Wirtschafts-)Informatiker (m/w): d-fine GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
Sie haben in der Wissenschaft viel bewegt? Dann können Sie auch in der Wirtschaft viel bewegen! Davon sind wir bei d-fine fest überzeugt.
d-fine ist mit über 150 Beratern und Büros in Frankfurt und London eines der größten auf die Finanzwelt spezialisierten Beratungsunternehmen in Europa. Wir fokussieren höchste naturwissenschaftlich-technische Kompetenz auf die anspruchsvollen Herausforderungen unserer Kunden.
Wir beraten Banken, Versicherungen, Asset-Manager und Industrieunternehmen beim Aufbau ihrer Handels- und Risikomanagementsysteme sowie der zugehörigen Methoden und Prozesse – von der fachlichen Konzeption bis zur professionellen Implementierung, vom finanzmathematischen Modell bis zur real-time Schnittstelle, vom einfachen Kredit bis zum exotischen Derivat, vom Ratingsystem bis zur Portfoliosteuerung, von IAS 39 bis Basel II.
Unsere Kunden schätzen unseren kompromisslos hohen Qualitätsanspruch und vor allem, dass wir diesen Anspruch auch realisieren. Das beginnt schon bei der Auswahl unserer Mitarbeiter (m/w). Wir suchen Sie als Mathematiker, Physiker und Wirtschaftsinformatiker. Sie besitzen einen exzellenten Hochschulabschluss, sprechen fließend Englisch und Deutsch und haben weit überdurchschnittliche mathematische Fähigkeiten. Sie haben darüber hinaus sehr gute IT-Kenntnisse und sind idealerweise bereits mit Statistik, Numerik und Finanzmathematik vertraut.
Unbedingt erwarten wir von Ihnen analytisches Denken, ergebnisorientiertes Vorgehen und exzellente Kommunikationsfähigkeiten. Sie sind teamfähig, erfassen auch sehr komplexe Aufgaben schnell und können sich rasch in neue Umgebungen einarbeiten. Sie haben Beratungstalent, hohe Einsatzfreude und sind flexibel und belastbar.
Selbstverständlich erhalten Sie eine intensive Einführung in Ihr zukünftiges Aufgabenfeld. Wir sind berühmt für unser anspruchsvolles Training auf höchstem Niveau, das wir in Zusammenarbeit mit führenden internationalen Universitäten wie z.B. der University of Oxford, der Warwick Business School, der Hochschule für Bankwirtschaft und dem Imperial College durchführen. Dabei können Sie sogar einen Master of Science (MSc) in Finanzmathematik erwerben.
Wenn Sie in einem Team hoch begabter und hoch motivierter Kollegen mitarbeiten wollen, große individuelle Freiräume, viel Eigenverantwortung sowie hervorragende Entwicklungsperspektiven suchen, freut sich Yasemin Keles auf Ihre Bewerbung.
Und durch unser flexibles Wohnortkonzept können Sie sogar Ihren jetzigen Wohnort beibehalten.
Willkommen bei d-fine!
d-fine GmbH
z. H. Frau Yasemin Keles
Opernplatz 2
60313 Frankfurt am Main
Telefon: +49-69-90737-0
E-mail:
Homepage:http://www.d-fine.de
About the course: The CQF is the fastest growing senior qualification in the financial services industry.
Designed and led by Paul Wilmott, the CQF faculty includes some of the most renowned practionners and academics in mathematical finance.
The course provides an in-depth coverage of practical quantitative methods essential in today's financial market
The course is delivered in the classroom in London and also live over the web (one evening class per week for 24 weeks commencing at 6pm London time). However for those delegates not able to webcast in live, all the classes are recorded and posted to an online account 24 hours after the class has been delivered - delegates can view the class in perpetuity and as many times as they wish.
The programme is delivered twice a year, in January and in June. The next course will start on the 28th June 2006.
For full listings of dates and costs, and to view sample recordings, please visit our website at http://www.7city.com/cqf, call Albine Horiot on +44 (0)20 7496 8652 or contact .
Mathematics For Quantitative Finance
About this course: Mathematical finance is now a prerequisite for City practitioners and this primer provides a refresher course, covering topics from ordinary calculus to deterministic equations from random behaviour. The program is divided into two modules:
Mathematics for Quantitative Finance is suitable for those who feel 'rusty' due to long periods away from the mathematics learning / application environment. Delegates leave the program having had grounding in the same type of introductory maths which a first year maths undergraduate would have in the first few weeks at university.
6 evening lectures of 2½ hours each
All sessions recorded allowing learning regardless of schedule or time-zone
Full access to recordings, study materials and notes
Continual tutor support via email or phone
Lecturer: Riaz Ahmad
Dates: Evening classes (6.00pm-8.30pm), six lectures 5,7,13,15,20,22 2006
Certificate In C++ For Mathematical Applications
About this course: The C++ Certificate is a self-contained course taking delegates from simple programming examples straight up to fully fledged object-oriented applications, with real-world examples from the quantitative finance arena to illustrate the powerful nature of this language. The course assumes no previous knowledge of C/C++, although familiarity with basic high-level language programming concepts is considered an advantage.
The Certificate will develop problem-solving skills using C++ together with numerical analysis and quantitative finance. All relevant models for derivative pricing will be presented along with the appropriate numerical techniques required to reduce problems to algorithmic form, from which writing code and obtaining computational solutions becomes a straightforward task.
Lecturers: Riaz Ahmad and Dominic Connor
Dates: Evening classes (6.00pm-8.30pm), June 26, 29, July 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24 and 27
Volatility, Advanced Modelling, With PC Workshops
About this course: This course takes a critical look at the most important unknown in derivatives pricing, volatility. The main modeling approaches are all presented, along with their advantages and disadvantages. Concepts are studied from both a scientific and a practical point of view with the goal being to give the delegates the deepest possible understanding of the significance of their choice of model. Paul Wilmott brings to this course many years' experience as a mathematical modeler in scientific disciplines and as a partner in a very successful volatility arbitrage hedge fund. At the fund his responsibilities were forecasting volatility, pricing and managing risk. Delegates should bring laptops for the workshops. The course covers
The important volatility forecasting methods
The many meanings of volatility
Calibration to market prices, representing the skew and smile
Deterministic volatility surfaces
Stochastic volatility
Uncertain volatility
Robustness and minimization of model error, static hedging
Volatility, static and dynamic hedging and portfolio theory
Lecturer: Paul Wilmott
Dates: 26-27 June 2006
Early bird discount of 25% if booked and paid for before 12 June
Exotic Equity Derivatives, With PC Workshops
About this course: A detailed course on the pricing and hedging of exotic equity derivatives, starting from the analysis of data to build up a vanilla pricing model and then extending this to exotic, over-the-counter products. We examine the mathematical modeling and the numerical aspects, as well as choice of model and dynamic and static hedging. Many real-life term sheets will be analyzed. Delegates are encouraged to bring their own term sheets for discussion. Delegates should also bring laptops for the workshops. This course covers
The Black-Scholes pricing and hedging framework
How to categorise exotic options
The mathematics of path dependency and decision processes
Pricing models
Hedging strategies
Numerical methods for pricing
Lecturer: Paul Wilmott
Dates: 19-20 June 2006
Quantitative Finance For Actuaries
About this course: A one-day course on derivatives, risk management and quantitative finance for actuaries. The course is aimed at giving actuaries a thorough grounding in the mathematical tools of the trade and the finance concepts. The course covers
Data Analysis
Binomial Trees
Black-Scholes
Volatility Estimation
Financial Models, an Overview
An Introduction to Numerical Methods
Lecturer: Paul Wilmott
Dates: 6 June 2006
For more information on the above courses, visit our website http://www.7city.com
Contact Albine Horiot +44 (0)20 7496 8652 or email
Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 30 - July 1, 2006
Aim of the Conference
The international workshop is being organized by EUROPT (the EURO Working Group on Continuous
Optimization) directly before the EURO2006 meeting. It continues in the line of the EUROPT conferences held:
2000 in Budapest, 2001 in Rotterdam, 2003 in Istanbul and 2004 in Rhodes.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers from continuous optimization and from related
fields of discrete optimization, operations research, economy and technology. It intends to be a
forum for the exchange of recent scientific developments and for the discussion of new trends.
The scope of the conference includes all aspects of smooth, nonsmooth and discrete optimization
from fundamental research to numerical methods and applications.
Topics
linear and nonlinear programming, semidefinite and semi-infinite optimization, complementarity problems
derivative-free, global and stochastic optimization, nondifferentiable analysis, optimal control
optimization of technological, bio- and social systems, financial optimization
Einführung in Monte Carlo-Methoden und C++ im Financial Engineering
, 10th-14th July 2006, HfB Frankfurt
Christoph Becker und Uwe Wystup
HfB - Business School of Finance and Management
Kursumfang
5 x 8 Stunden Unterricht inkl. Übung.
10.-14. Juli 2006, täglich 9:00 - 12:15 Uhr und 13:45 - 18:45 Uhr
Inhalt
Kurze Einführung in C (Transfer ihrer Basic / Fortran / Pascal o.ä. - Programmierkenntnisse nach C)
Ausführliche Einführung in das objektorientierte Programmieren mit C++
Einführung in Templates und die STL
Grundlegende Monte Carlo - Prinzipien
weiterführende Monte Carlo - Techniken zur Berechnung von Greeks und zur Varianzreduktion, Diskretisierungsschemata
Praktische Aspekte in der Programmierung: Effiziente Implementation, Fehlerbehandlung, numerische Stabilität
Realistische Rahmenwerke zur Optionsbewertung, dabei Einsatz von Design Patterns
Erstellung von DLLs und Add-ins für Microsoft Excel
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Adressaten
Berufseinsteiger im Bereich Financial Engineering,
Studenten im Studiengang "Quantitative Finance" o.ä.
Benötigte Vorkenntnisse
Gute Kenntnisse in einer beliebigen Programmiersprache, z.B. Pascal, Basic, Fortran etc
Mitzubringen
Ihr eigenes Notebook mit installiertem C++ Compiler.
Im Kurs behandelt wird nur das im Financial Engineering sehr beliebte Microsoft Visual Studio.
Visual Studio Express ist kostenlos erhältlich von
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/.
Teilnehmerzahl
maximal 20
Kosten
1500 EUR
500 EUR für Studierende der HfB
Anmeldungen
nimmt Frau Klemens (klemens@hfb.de)
entgegen. Ein Anmeldeformular gibt es hier.
Anmeldeschluss :1. Juli 2006
Bachelier Finance Society 2006 Fourth World Congress, August 17-20 2006, Tokyo
Notice: Submission Deadline Extended to 30th January from 16th January
Due to internet server maintenance at Hitotsubashi University, BFS2006
website and e-mail server will be out of service from January 13th, 10pm
to January 16th, 10am. Considering the possibility of any confusion possibly
caused by the Internet server maintenance, BFS2006 4th World Congress Organizer
will extend the deadline for the application submission from January 16
to January 30, 2006.
General Information of Bachelier Finance Society 2006 4th World Congress
Date: August 17(Thursday) - August 20(Sunday), 2006 Venue: National Center of Sciences (Hitotsubashi University, ICS)
[Address] 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8439, Japan
Deadline for Submission of Contributed Papers: January 16th, 2006
Submission of Contributed Papers
We invite both academics and practitioners to submit your contributed paper on all topics of mathematical finance for the Bachelier Finance Society 2006 Fourth World Congress (BFS2006 4th World Congress). Authors who wish to present a paper at the BFS2006 4th World Congress are requested to submit their application with the extended abstract to the conference organizer by January 30, 2006.
The 3rd Fixed Income Conference, Amsterdam, 20 - 22 Sept 2006
NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
15% Earlybird Discount before 31st May.
Due to the huge success of our previous two Fixed Income Conferences in Prague, WBS Training are pleased to announce that we will be heading to Amsterdam in September 2006. The three streamed format will be retained, with Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Modelling and Hybrid Products streams. This year we will also have four workshops on Wednesday 20th September; Credit Derivatives Modelling, Credit Hybrids, Interest Rate Modelling & Interest Rate Hybrids.
Confirmed Main Conference Presenter List
Claudio Albanese: Chair of Mathematical Finance, Imperial College London
Jesper Andreasen: Heads of Fixed Income Quantitative Research, Bank of America
Martin Baxter: Analyst, Fixed Income Quant Group, Nomura International, plc
Nordine Bennani: Head of Credit Derivative Quantitative Research, DrKW
Damiano Brigo: Head of Credit Models, Banca IMI
Aaron Brown: Head of Credit Risk Architecture, Morgan Stanley
Dariusz Gatarek: Glencore
Helyette Geman: Professor of Finance, University Paris Dauphine & ESSEC
Jon Gregory: Global Credit Derivatives: Barclays Capital
Patrick Hagan: Brevan Howard
Lane P. Hughston: Professor for Financial Mathematics, King's College London
Chris Hunter: Hybrids Trader, BNP Paribas
Alexander Jackson: Director, Global Credit Quantitative Analysis, Citigroup
Peter Jaeckel: Head of Credit, Hybrid, Inflation and Commodity Derivative Analytics, ABN Amro
Farshid Jamshidian: University of Twente
Jeroen Kerkhof: Vice President, Morgan Stanley
Raoul Pietersz: Senior Derivatives Researcher, ABN Amro
Vladimir Piterbarg: Head of Fixed Income Quantitative Research, Barclays Capital
Antoine Savine: Global Head of Derivatives Research, BNP Paribas
Lutz Schloegl: Fixed Income Quantitative Research, Lehman Brothers
Philipp Schonbucher: Assistant Professor of Risk Management, ETH Zurich
Jakob Sidenius: Senior Quantitative Analyst, Royal Bank of Scotland
Pedro Tavares: Head of Quantitative Credit Derivatives Analysis, Merrill Lynch
Domingo Tavella: Advisor HVB
Oldrich Vasicek: Founding Principal of KMV
Wednesday 20th September Pre –Conference Workshop Day:
Peter Jaeckel: Interest Rate Modelling Workshop
Jon Gregory: Credit Derivatives Workshop
Philipp Schönbucher: Credit Hybrids Workshop
Claudio Albanese: Pricing Structured Products with Spectral Methods
Latest Developments: Commodities & Commodity Derivatives by Professor Hélyette Geman, Central London, 2 - 4 Oct 2006
In the context of exploding commodity markets, the goal of the course is to offer a thorough and detailed understanding of both spot and derivative transactions.
The discussion will focus in particular on such fundamental issues as volume risk, forward curve, theory of storage. Plain-vanilla and exotic options on commodities will be analysed, as well as a real options approach to energy physical assets.
Professor Hélyette Geman
Day one: Fundamentals of Spot and Forwards / flash Futures Commodity Market
Instruments and Commodity Exchanges: LME, NYMEX, CBOT
Commodity Spot Markets: the Importance of Liquid Indexes
Shipping and Freight
Fundamentals of Commodity Forward and Futures Contracts
Theory of Storage and Convenience Yield
The forward curve as a key element when trading commodities
Spot-forward relationship and shape of the forward curve
Forward rates as expectations of future Spot rates
Case study: Modelling the dynamics of the forward curve
Day two: Commodity Options
Dynamics of Commodity Spot Prices
The unique features of electricity: incorporating spikes in the trajectories
The current bull cycle: mean-reversion or upward trend in energy commodity price processes?
Options on Commodity Futures Contracts
Plain-Vanilla Options on Commodity Spot Prices
Exchange Options
Case study: Pricing a Fuel Power Plant and Tolling Rights as a Portfolio of Sparkspread Option Incorporating Emission Rights in the valuation
Day Three: Advanced Topics
Inventory and Spot Price Volatility: the examples of Agriculturals, metals and Energy
Volatility Smile in Commodities: the Inverse Leverage Effect
Correlations between oil and natural gas prices: the case of the UK and continental Europe
Asian Options and Floating-Strike Asian Options: the example of the oil market
Calendar Spread Options and Gas Storage Valuation
Volumetric and swing options
Case Study: Building binomial and trinomial trees to price swing options and interruption rights in the gas and electricity industry
Contact:
Neil Fowler
T: +44(0) 1273 674400 F: +44(0) 1273 672333
Fees: Workshops: £999:00 + UK VAT
Register to ANY ONE day TWO days or all THREE days of the workshop
Register to ANY TWO days of the workshop and receive £200 discount
Register to ALL THREE workshop days and receive £300 discount
Alternative Risk Transfer, Capital and Liability Solutions for Insurers: An Introduction to Modern Techniques in Liability Driven Investment, Risk Management & Capital Optimisation, Central London, 9 - 11 Oct 2006
Summary:
This note outlines a training programme in alternative risk transfer and related issues suitable for all of those wishing to gain a better understanding of this fast moving area.
Objectives:
The programme is designed to provide participants with a broad overview of contemporary issues for insurers in the capital markets/insurance cross over space. It covers risk transfer between the capital markets and insurers, alternative risk transfer, capital instruments and capital modelling, and the design of retail products for issuance by insurers.
Attendees:
Suitable for actuaries, underwriters, members of the treasury or risk management departments of insurers, insurance brokers, and anyone involved in alternative risk transfer or capital management for insurers. The course would also be suitable for regulators, lawyers, accountants, consultants, hedge fund managers and others seeking to broaden their knowledge of ART and related techniques.
Background:
Participants have some familiarity with either life or non-life insurance and basic financial mathematics.
Duration:
3 days, each day being available separately. The first day focuses on capital; the second on ART techniques for life insurers; and the third on non-life.
Methods: lectures, group discussion, case studies and spreadsheet exercises.
Presenter: Dr. David Murphy
Day 1 – Capital: Requirements, Models, and Instruments
Introduction
Capital Structure
Regulatory and Ratings Agency Capital
Economic Capital Models for Insurers
Day 2 – ART and Product Development for Life Companies
Introduction
Securitisation of Life Risk
Equity Risk for Life Insurers
Liability Driven Investment
Day 3 – ART and Liability Management for Non-Life Companies
Introduction
Risk Transfer Between The Markets
Credit Risk, Financial Guarantees and Transformation
Risk-linked Financing and the Capital Markets
Contact:
Neil Fowler
T: +44(0) 1273 674400 F: +44(0) 1273 672333
Fees: Workshops: £799:00 + UK VAT
Register to ANY ONE day TWO days or all THREE days of the workshop
Register to ANY TWO days of the workshop and receive £200 discount
Register to ALL THREE workshop days and receive £300 discount
The Latest Developments: Interest Rate Derivatives & Hybrids Workshop, 27 - 29 Nov 2006, Central London
Day 1: Interest Rate Modelling: From Basic - Hybrids Workshop
Presenters:
Dorje C. Brody: Royal Society University Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Lane P Hughston: Professor of Financial Mathematics, King's College London
Topics Covered:
Interest-rate modelling: the basics
Applications: short rate models, positive-interest models, chaotic models
Interest rate and foreign exchange hybrids
Conditional variance models for foreign-exchange volatility
Interest rate and inflation hybrids
Payout structures for inflation-linked hybrid products
Interest rate and credit hybrids
Market-information models for credit-linked structures
Day 2: Latest Developments: Interest Rate Modelling Techniques
Presenters:
Claudio Albanese: Chair of Mathematical Finance, Imperial College London
Dariusz Gatarek: Glencore International
Fabio Mercurio: Head of Financial Models, Banca IMI
Raoul Pietersz: Senior Derivatives Researcher, ABN Amro
Topics Covered:
Stochastic volatility term structure models for callable swaps
Modeling challenges with callable swaps
The Swaption Smile and CMS Convexity Adjustments
Introducing the displaced diffusion LIBOR model with uncertain shifts
Approximations of Libor market model
Linear and Nonlinear Pricing of Swaptions
Generic and CMS Market Models and Measures
Extending LIBOR and swap market models
Day 3: Latest Developments: Interest Rate Hybrid Products
Presenters:
Alain Chebanier: Head, FX and Commodities Derivatives Research, Deutsche Bank
Messaoud Chibane: Senior Quantitative Analyst, Bank of America
Chris Hunter: Managing Director, BNP Paribas
Jakob Sidenius: Senior Quantitative Analyst, Royal Bank of Scotland
Topics Covered:
On the Term Structure of Portfolio Loss Distributions
FX Hybrids Modelling
Modelling the long-dated FX smile
Skew dynamics on FX and interest rates
Impact of skew dynamics on exotics
Correlation Smile and Hybrid Pricing
Evolution of the Correlation Smile
Fees: Workshops: £999:00 + UK VAT
Register to ANY ONE day TWO days or all THREE days of the workshop
Register to ANY TWO days of the workshop and receive £200 discount
Register to ALL THREE workshop days and receive £300 discount
Contact:
Neil Fowler
T: +44(0) 1273 674400 F: +44(0) 1273 672333
Fees: Workshops: £999:00 + UK VAT
Register to ANY ONE day TWO days or all THREE days of the workshop
Register to ANY TWO days of the workshop and receive £200 discount
Register to ALL THREE workshop days and receive £300 discount
10th Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research (SGF), March 30, 2007, Zürich
Publisher of the Journal "FINANCIAL MARKETS AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT"
March 30, 2007, Zürich (SWX SWISS EXCHANGE)
Call for Papers and Speeches
Submission of a Paper
We would like to invite both academics and practitioners to submit papers on all topic areas of financial market research by November 1, 2006. Papers must be in English. Please submit your paper via the online tool on our website www.fmpm.ch. Detailed information on the conference as well as the format requirements can also be found there. There will be a Best Paper Award.
Submission of a Speech
Additionally to the academic sessions the conference also features a practitioner's workshop with speeches on current trends in financial markets. Practitioners are invited to submit an abstract of their speech via the online application tool on www.fmpm.ch by November 1, 2006. Abstracts should be in English and should not exceed 1000 words. It should contain your name, address, phone number, and email address. Speeches must not be longer than 25 minutes.
Registration
There is no deadline for registration. The conference fee is 100 CHF. In case you do not register for conference participation beforehand, the walk-in rate amounts to 150 CHF. On March 29, 2007 there will be a pre-conference dinner in the restaurant Kaufleuten in Zürich. Please register through the online tool on http://www.fmpm.ch.
For further questions please contact
Dr. Matthias Muck or Miriam Begtasevic
Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (WHU)
Dresdner Bank Chair of Finance, Burgplatz 2, D-56179 Vallendar
E-Mail:
Phone: +49 - (0)261/ 6509 428
Fax: +49 - (0)261/ 6509 409
Call for papers: Computational Finance World Congress: The First Decade March 26, 2007, London
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute of Berkeley, California, invites leading practitioners and academics to contribute to this milestone event. The Computational Finance World Congress is the ideal forum in 2007 for the dissemination of the latest advances in Computational Finance.
Chairs:
Jesper Andreasen (Bank of America)
Myron Scholes (Oak Hill Capital Management/Stanford University)
Domingo Tavella (HypoVereinsbank)
Organizing Committee:
Carl Chiarella (UTS, Australia)
Michael Dempster (Cambridge)
Emanuel Derman (Columbia)
Darrell Duffie (Stanford)
David Eisenbud (MSRI)
Jim Gatheral (Merril Lynch/Courant Institute)
Paul Glasserman (Columbia)
Robert Jarrow (Cornell)
Alexander Lipton (Citadel Investments)
Francis Longstaff (UCLA)
Philipp Schoenbucher (ETH)
Eduardo Schwartz (UCLA)
Topics:
Advanced simulation methods in derivatives pricing and risk management
Copula methods in credit pricing and risk management
Finite difference and finite element techniques in equities, interest rates, and credit derivatives pricing Approaches for pricing and risk managing hybrid and structured products
Application of transform methods in derivatives pricing
Efficient calculation of option Greeks and risk reports
Parallel and distributed computing in option pricing and risk management
Pricing and analysis of weather and energy contracts
Numerical algorithms for calibration and optimization
Important dates:
Submission deadline: October 1, 2006
Notification of acceptance: November 1, 2006
Revised paper due on November 15, 2006 Please submit complete papers in electronic form to
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http://www.msri.org/specials/compfinance.
Microfoundations of Financial Economics by Yvan Lengwiler
An Introduction to General Equilibrium Asset Pricing
Yvan Lengwiler, Princeton University Press, 2004.
Content
This book can be used as an introduction to general equilibrium theory, macroeconomics, or finance — three fields that have moved closer to each other over the last two decades. The book develops the theory from the bottom up, placing special emphasis on the conditions for aggregation. In essence, it takes the reader from a microeconomics principles level (indifference curves, budget constraints, maximization) in a sequence of carefully elaborated and detailed steps to modern topics in finance (consumption CAPM, term structure of interest rates, equity premium puzzle, habits, asset pricing with heterogenous agents, demographic effects on asset prices, etc).
Here is what some people in the profession have said about this book:
"Microfoundations of Financial Economics is a wonderful book. In less than 300 pages of highly readable text, Yvan Lengwiler covers the basics of modern asset pricing theory. Students of advanced finance will want to use this book as an effective learning tool and reference. It's going to be a permanent part of my library." — Simon Benninga, Tel Aviv University and Editor-in-Chief, European Finance Review.
"A tour de force. Yvan Lengwiler's book provides a valuable structure around an area that professors struggle to cover in an integrated way." — Elroy Dimson, London Business School.
The book is published in Princeton's Series in Finance, which is edited by D. Duffie and S. Schaefer.