INVITATION
The WU Gutmann Center cordially invites you to the forthcoming
WU GUTMANN CENTER PUBLIC LECTURE
www.gutmann-center.at
(apologies for duplicated mails!)
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Date: APRIL 11 (Thursday), 2013 - 4:00 pm
Location: Bank Gutmann AG, Schwarzenbergplatz 16, 1010 Wien
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Olivia S. MITCHELL, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania https://bepp.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/719/
Title: " FINANCIAL LITERACY AND RETIREMENT PLANNING: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FINANCIAL MARKETPLACE AND POLICY "
ABSTRACT:
Recent research suggests that levels of financial literacy are woefully low around the world. Professor Mitchell evaluates a number of surveys about workers' financial knowledge and explores the causal links with asset accumulation and decumulation. She concludes with an assessment of "what works" to enhance financial literacy.
ABOUT OLIVIA S. MITCHELL:
Olivia S. Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor at the Wharton School, as well as Professor of Insurance/Risk Management and Business Economics/Policy; Executive Director of the Pension Research Council; and Director of the Boettner Center on Pensions and Retirement Research; all at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Concurrently Dr. Mitchell serves as a Research Associate at the NBER; as an independent director on the Wells Fargo Advantage Fund Trusts Board; and as Co-Investigator for the Health and Retirement Study at the University of Michigan and Associate Director of the Financial Literacy Center, a RAND/Wharton/Dartmouth Consortium. Dr. Mitchell's main interests are public and private pensions, insurance and risk management, financial literacy, and public finance. She was awarded and won numerous prizes including the Paul Samuelson Award for "Outstanding Writing on Lifelong Financial Security" from TIAA-CREF for her Social Security reform study. She received the MA and PhD degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the BA in Economics from Harvard University. Author of more than 25 books and numerous articles, she speaks Spanish and Portuguese, having lived and worked in Latin America, Europe, and Australasia.
**Please REGISTER**:
Mail: gutmann-center(a)wu.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-31336-4244
CONTACT AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
WU Gutmann Center for Portfolio Management WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) - Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics Mag. Dorothea GRIMM www.gutmann-center.at
To: vfn-l(a)fam.tuwien.ac.at
INVITATION
6th Financial Risks International Forum
LIQUIDITY RISK
Paris, March 25 & 26 2013
The Louis Bachelier "Finance and Sustainable Growth" Laboratory is pleased to invite you to the 6th Financial Risks International Forum. In the current context, this year's forum will focus on "LIQUIDITY RISK". Papers will address topics such as:
- Market Liquidity;
- Funding Liquidity and Counterparty Risk;
- Liquidity and Regulation;
- Asset Management with Illiquid Assets;
- Intraday Liquidity and Optimal Execution;
- Investor's Behavior in Liquidity Crises.
The aim of this event is to showcase the very best of international research, selected by our international scientific committee, chaired by Marie BRIERE - Amundi, Paris Dauphine University and Université Libre de Bruxelles -. Panel sessions will be led by industry professionals, with workshops that encourage dialog among researchers and working financial professionals. The scientific committee's rigorous requirements, combined with the outstanding quality of the papers, ensure an event meets the highest level of international standards.
The forum will take place on March 25 and 26, 2013 at the Paris Ile-de-France regional chamber of commerce and industry / Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de région Paris Ile-de-France.
Click here for the most recent agenda:
http://www.financialrisksforum.com/cgi-bin/viewlink?k=67685055&r=141363902
If you would like to join us for interactive debates, please kindly register online: http://www.financialrisksforum.com/cgi-bin/viewlink?k=67685055&r=141367998
INVITATION - REMINDER
The WU Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance and Spängler IQAM Invest are pleased to invite you to a
Spängler IQAM Invest Round Table
DATE:
March 14, 2013 - 04:30 pm
SPEAKER:
Prof. Dr. Franklin ALLEN, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
TOPIC:
"IS US GOVERNMENT DEBT DIFFERENT?
EFFECTS OF THE US DEBT CRISIS ON GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS"
ABSTRACT:
The skyrocketing U.S. government debt, the standoff over the statutory debt limit between the Congress and the President of the United States, underlines the urgent need to consider the unthinkable: default, restructuring, or a wholesale reassessment of the U.S. Treasury securities' place in the world. Franklin Allen presents major results from his recently published book "Is US Government Debt Different?", that contains contributions by economists, historians, lawyers, market participants, and policy makers. He will discuss different aspects of U.S. government debt, including its role in the global financial markets, its constitutional, statutory and contractual basis, and its sustainability. Having laid the conceptual foundation, Professor Allen will also present a thought experiment, mapping out options for a hypothetical U.S. debt restructuring.
ABOUT FRANKLIN ALLEN:
Franklin Allen is the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been on the faculty since 1980. He is currently Co- Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs and Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the leading academic finance journals. He is a past President of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Society for Financial Studies, and the Financial Intermediation Research Society, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He received his doctorate from Oxford University. Dr. Allen's main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparative financial systems, and financial crises. He is a co-author with Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers of the eighth through tenth editions of the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance.
Further information about Franklin Allen: http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~allenf/
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. WE KINDLY ASK YOU TO REGISTER AT vsam(a)wu.ac.at
LOCATION:
WU Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance Heiligenstädter Str. 46-48, 1190 Wien - Seminar Room 1 (Ground Floor)
Contact and further information:
WU
Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance att. Martina Schlichting Heiligenstädter Str. 46-48
1190 Vienna
Phone: +43-1-31336 6315
Mail: vsam(a)wu.ac.at
Web: http://www.wu.ac.at/finance/coop/vsam
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Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:43:42 +0100
From: summerschoolmathfi <summerschoolmathfi(a)cmap.polytechnique.fr>
To: (multiple recipients)
Subject: Conference
(...)
Dear colleagues,
we would like to inform you about the workshop on
Stochastic Methods in Finance and Physics
http://www.acmac.uoc.gr/SMFP2013/
that will take place in Heraklion, Crete from 15 until 19 July 2013.
The workshop will consist of mini-courses and talks around the following topics:
Interacting agents and equilibrium models, numerical methods for SPDEs, rough
stochastic PDEs, probabilistic interaction models, metastabilty and
condensation.
The following speakers have agreed to deliver a mini-course or a talk:
Jean?Dominique Deuschel (TU Berlin)
Alexandre Gaudillière (Marseille)
Stefan Grosskinsky (Warwick)
Ulrich Horst (HU Berlin)
Michael Kupper (Konstanz)
Claudio Landim (Rio de Janeiro)
Elena Sartori (Padova)
Josef Teichmann (ETH Zürich)
Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis (Crete)
Hendrik Weber (Warwick)
Thaleia Zariphopoulou (Oxford)
Nikolaos Zygouras (Warwick)
There will also be short talks and posters presented by young researchers.
Partial financial support is available. The deadline for submissions is 15 April
2013.
http://www.acmac.uoc.gr/SMFP2013/submissions.php
Best regards,
Claudio Landim, Peter Friz, Michalis Loulakis, Antonis Papapantoleon
INVITATION
The WU Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance and Spängler IQAM Invest are pleased to invite you to a
Spängler IQAM Invest Round Table
DATE:
March 14, 2013 - 04:30 pm
SPEAKER:
Prof. Dr. Franklin ALLEN, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
TOPIC:
"IS US GOVERNMENT DEBT DIFFERENT?
EFFECTS OF THE US DEBT CRISIS ON GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS"
ABSTRACT:
The skyrocketing U.S. government debt, the standoff over the statutory debt limit between the Congress and the President of the United States, underlines the urgent need to consider the unthinkable: default, restructuring, or a wholesale reassessment of the U.S. Treasury securities' place in the world. Franklin Allen presents major results from his recently published book "Is US Government Debt Different?", that contains contributions by economists, historians, lawyers, market participants, and policy makers. He will discuss different aspects of U.S. government debt, including its role in the global financial markets, its constitutional, statutory and contractual basis, and its sustainability. Having laid the conceptual foundation, Professor Allen will also present a thought experiment, mapping out options for a hypothetical U.S. debt restructuring.
ABOUT FRANKLIN ALLEN:
Franklin Allen is the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been on the faculty since 1980. He is currently Co- Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs and Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the leading academic finance journals. He is a past President of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Society for Financial Studies, and the Financial Intermediation Research Society, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He received his doctorate from Oxford University. Dr. Allen's main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparative financial systems, and financial crises. He is a co-author with Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers of the eighth through tenth editions of the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance.
Further information about Franklin Allen: http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~allenf/
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. WE KINDLY ASK YOU TO REGISTER AT vsam(a)wu.ac.at
LOCATION:
WU Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance Heiligenstädter Str. 46-48, 1190 Wien - Seminar Room 1 (Ground Floor)
Contact and further information:
WU
Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance att. Martina Schlichting Heiligenstädter Str. 46-48
1190 Vienna
Phone: +43-1-31336 6315
Mail: vsam(a)wu.ac.at
Web: http://www.wu.ac.at/finance/coop/vsam
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:28:48 +0100
From: ROHRINGER Gabriela <Gabriela.Rohringer(a)unicreditgroup.at>
Subject: Leopold Gratz-Stipendium 2013/2014
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
die "Leopold Gratz-Stiftung" hat in Kooperation mit der Bank Austria
und der UniCredit & Universities Foundation zur Erinnerung an den
ehemaligen Bürgermeister von Wien, Leopold Gratz -analog dem
vergangenen Jahr - wieder die Vergabe eines Stipendiums
ausgeschrieben. Das Stipendium ist darauf ausgerichtet, für einen
Studenten ein PhD oder MSc Programm an einer österreichischen
Universität in den Bereichen Wirtschaft, Bank und Finanzen zu fördern.
(...) Bitte beachten Sie, dass nur Master/Diplom Studenten und
Doktoranden in Österreich angesprochen sind.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Dr. Alvin Krauss e.h. Gabriela Rohringer e.h.
Sekretär der "Leopold Gratz-Stiftung"
(...)
[Das PDF-Attachment wurde vom list-admin gelöscht, da alle relevanten
Information offenbar on-line verfügbar sind unter
http://www.unicreditanduniversities.eu/de/fellow/show/fellow_id/4 ]
The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne (HEC
Lausanne, www.hec.unil.ch <http://www.hec.unil.ch/>) invites
applications for a full-time position of
*Full Professor or Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Actuarial Science*
Starting on August 1^st , 2013 or a mutually agreed upon date.
The new professor will be a member of HEC Lausanne's Department of
Actuarial Science.
Candidates must hold a PhD in actuarial science or a related discipline.
We seek applicants with a strong research and teaching potential in
actuarial science.
A job description is available at: www.hec.unil.ch/candidatures/offres
<http://www.hec.unil.ch/candidatures/offres>.
Applications should be submitted online using the above link by *April
13,* *2013*. Please fill in the electronic form, upload a curriculum
vitae and a motivation letter with a statement of research interests, as
well as a list of publications and samples of scholarly work, and
provide the names and addresses of three references.
Additional information may be obtained from Professor François Dufresne,
Director of the Department of Actuarial Science (DSA), HEC Lausanne,
Bâtiment Extranef, CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Francois.Dufresne(a)unil.ch
<mailto:Francois.Dufresne@unil.ch>.
The University of Lausanne promotes access of women to academic
positions and strongly encourages them to apply.
Dear Colleagues,
Registration for the
Sixth European Summer School in Financial Mathematics
is now open. Important deadlines: For financial support applications should
be submitted by April 15, 2013. Registration closes on June 30, 2013.
This year the summer school will take place in Vienna (Campus of the Vienna
University) from August 26 to 30, 2013.
All the details are on the web site
http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~finance_hp/summer_school_Vienna_2013/index.html
Please circulate this announcement.
Yours sincerely,
The organizing committee
Beatrice Acciaio, Mathias Beiglböck, Christa Cuchiero, Christoph
Czichowsky, Walter Schachermayer, Pietro Siorpaes
We are glad to announce a summer school on
"Numerical Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations"
which will take place from 2-4 September, 2013, at Vienna University of
Technology, Austria.
The summer school aims to bring together talented young researchers in
the field of (stochastic) differential equations and computational
finance, mainly in their first PhD year.
In a series of four lectures, each of four renowned international
experts will give an introduction and present new numerical results. The
topics of the summer school include Monte-Carlo methods, numerical
techniques for stochastic (partial) differential equations, error
estimation, and applications in sciences and finance. The following
speakers have confirmed to present mini-courses:
• Evelyn Buckwar (Linz, Austria)
• Desmond Higham (Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
• Andreas Rößler (Lübeck, Germany)
• Gabriel Lord (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) (*)
(*) to be confirmed
For further information, please see
http://www.asc.tuwien.ac.at/~juengel/sde/sde.html
Organizers:
Bertram Düring, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Ansgar Jüngel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
*First Announcement
**26th International Summer School of the Swiss Association of Actuaries
*Topic: *Enterprise Risk Management
*Teachers: Prof. *Stéphane Loisel* and *David N Ingram*,**CERA, FRM,
PRM, FSA, MAAA
Location: University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dates: 3-7 June 2013
Registration is now open on the web site www.saa-iss.ch
<http://www.saa-iss.ch/> .
Please inform all colleagues you know who might be interested.
Best regards,
François Dufresne
SAA ISS Organizing Director