The MathFinance Newsletter #142

The MathFinance Newsletter, Edition 142, June 19 2006.

Previous editions and this edition in html format can be found on http://www.mathfinancenews.com/.

In this issue:

  1. MathFinance Job Exchange
    1. Associate (m/w) Advisory für Bewertungsfragen im Financial Risk Management bei KPMG Frankfurt
    2. Front-Office Entwickler Java/C++ (m/w) bei Quanteam
    3. Mathematiker, Physiker oder Wirtschaftsinformatiker: d-fine GmbH, Frankfurt
  2. MathFinance Events
    1. Courses on Quantitative Finance
    2. Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 30 - July 1, 2006
    3. Einführung in Monte Carlo-Methoden und C++ im Financial Engineering, 10th-14th July 2006, HfB Frankfurt
    4. Bachelier Finance Society 2006 Fourth World Congress, August 17-20 2006, Tokyo
    5. The 3rd Fixed Income Conference, Amsterdam, 20 - 22 Sept 2006
    6. Latest Developments: Commodities & Commodity Derivatives by Professor Hélyette Geman, Central London, 2 - 4 Oct 2006
    7. 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
    8. The Latest Developments: Interest Rate Derivatives & Hybrids Workshop, 27 - 29 Nov 2006, Central London
    9. Latest Developments: Credit Derivatives / Credit CPPI & Credit Hybrids, 4 - 6 Dec 2006, Central London
    10. Call for papers: Computational Finance World Congress: The First Decade March 26, 2007, London
  3. MathFinance Resources
    1. Microfoundations of Financial Economics by Yvan Lengwiler
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  1. MathFinance Job Exchange

    1. 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.

      Ihr Kontakt: Bewerben Sie sich online auf http://www.kpmg.de/careers

      oder senden Sie Ihre Bewerbung unter Angabe des Referenzcodes: AdvFestFSoJo50204504 an das

      Recruiting Team, KPMG,
      Klingelhöferstr. 18,
      10785 Berlin,
      eMail: [spam save email].

      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.



    2. 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:

      Quanteam GbR
      c/o Sören Gerlach
      Basaltstr. 28
      60487 Frankfurt

      Gerne nehmen wir Ihre Unterlagen auch per eMail entgegen (vorzugsweise im PDF-Format), bitte richten Sie diese an [spam save email]. 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.



    3. 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:[spam save email]
      Homepage:http://www.d-fine.de



  2. MathFinance Events



    1. Courses on Quantitative Finance

      • Certificate in Quantitative Finance

        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 [spam save email].

      • 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:

        • Module M1: Calculus & Differential Equations Refresher
        • Module M2: Linear Algebra & Probability Refresher


        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 [spam save email] +44 (0)20 7496 8652 or email [spam save email]

    2. 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
      • Special topic: applications in the Energy sector


      Abstract submission deadline: May 31

      Workshop Webpage: http://wwwhome.math.utwente.nl/~stillgj/COPT06/

    3. 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
    l

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

    Plenary Speakers:
    • Peter Carr
    • Freddy Delbaen
    • Paul Glasserman
    • Monique Jeanblanc
    • Arturo Kohatsu-Higa
    • José A. Scheinkman
    • H. Mete Soner
    • Thaleia Zariphopoulou


    Special Speaker: Shinzo Watanabe

    Scientific/Organizing Committee:

    • René Carmona
    • Hélyette Geman
    • Shigeo Kusuoka
    • Marek Rutkowski
    • Steven E. Shreve
    • Nizar Touzi


    Local Organizing Committee:

    • Takeaki Kariya
    • Yoshio Miyahara
    • Katsushige Sawaki
    • Takahiko Fujita
    • Jiro Akahori


    Conference Organizer: Ryozo Miura (Hitotsubashi University, ICS)

    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.

    For further information with regard to the submission procedure please refer to:
    http://bachelier.ics.hit-u.ac.jp/submission.html

    For Further Information

    Please contact BFS2006 4th World Congress Administration at [spam save email]

    BFS2006 4th World Congress Website: http://bachelier.ics.hit-u.ac.jp/index.html

  • 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


    Workshop fee - £799:00 + NL VAT 19% (No Discount)
    Main Conference fee - £1599:00 + NL VAT 19% (10% Wilmott.com Discount)

    Contact:

    Neil Fowler
    T: +44(0) 1273 674400 F: +44(0) 1273 672333
    Email:[spam save email]


  • 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

    Weblink: http://www.wbstraining.com/php/events/showevent.php?id=97
    Website: http://www.wbstraining.com
    Email:[spam save email]

    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

    Weblink: http://www.wbstraining.com/php/events/showevent.php?id=99
    Website: http://www.wbstraining.com
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    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

    Weblink: http://www.wbstraining.com/php/events/showevent.php?id=96
    Website: http://www.wbstraining.com
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  • Latest Developments: Credit Derivatives / Credit CPPI & Credit Hybrids, 4 - 6 Dec 2006, Central London

    Day 1: Credit Derivatives: From Basic - Hybrids Workshop

    Presenter: Philipp Schönbucher, Assistant Professor, Risk Management, (ETH) Zurich

    Topics Covered:

    • Single-Name Credit Risk Models
    • Term structures of hazard rates and credit spreads, implied survival probabilities
    • Structural models, Merton, Black-Cox, Credit-Equity hybrids and latest developments in structural models.
    • Portfolio Credit Risk Models
    • Basic model-free Single-Tranche CDO pricing relationships
    • Copula models, Gauss copula, the market standard model, implied correlation.
    • Numerical techniques for factor models: Convolution, Fast Fourier Transforms
    • Numerical techniques for simulation models: Importance sampling, sensitivities with Likelihood-ratio methods


    Day 2: Latest Developments: Credit Derivatives Modelling Techniques

    Presenters:

    Jon Gregory: Global Credit Derivatives: Barclays Capital
    Lutz Schloegl: Fixed Income Quantitative Research,, Lehman Brothers

    Topics Covered:

    • Complete overview of Modelling Correlation Skews
    • The Gaussian Copula Model and Beyond
    • Correlation Market Dynamics and Skew Models
    • A Correlation Skew Model with Sensible Dynamics
    • Comparing Base Correlation with Market Dynamics
    • Latest developments in CDOs
    • Bespoke CDO Pricing- Determining the Correlation Skew from Portfolio Composition


    Day 3: Latest Developments: Credit CPPI & Credit Hybrid Products

    Presenters:

    Rishad Ahluwalia Structured Products Research, JPMorgan Securities
    Claudio Albanese: Chair of Mathematical Finance, Imperial College London
    Didier Campant: Credit Structurer, Associate Director, BNP Paribas
    Philipp Schönbucher, Assistant Professor, Risk Management, (ETH) ZURICH

    Topics Covered:

    • Market overview of Credit CPPI
    • Portfolio Insurance Strategies and CDOs
    • An introduction to Credit SPI/CPPI
    • The Loss-Market-Model: Pricing Portfolio-Credit - Interest-Rate Hybrids and exotic Portfolio Credit Derivatives
    • Applications of the Model: Forward-starting CDOs, Options on Indices, Options on Tranches, Hybrid Products with Credit Correlation Components.
    • Dynamic Credit Correlation Models and Hybrids
    • Intrinsic Credit-Equity Hybrids: EDSs and Convertible Bonds
    • Extrinsic Hybrids: Mezzanine Swaps and Credit Linked Options


    Contact:

    Neil Fowler
    T: +44(0) 1273 674400 F: +44(0) 1273 672333

    Weblink: http://www.wbstraining.com/php/events/showevent.php?id=95
    Website: http://www.wbstraining.com
    Email:[spam save email]

    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

    http://www.fmpm.ch

    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: [spam save email]
    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 [spam save email]

    For additional information, please contact Domingo Tavella at [spam save email], or Jesper Andreasen at [spam save email]. For more information and registration instructions, please go to the event web site: http://www.msri.org/specials/compfinance.

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    1. 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:

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      "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.

      URL: http://www.wwz.unibas.ch/witheo/yvan/book/


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