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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:55:09 +0100
From: Xiaochen Sun <Xiaochen.Sun(a)brunel.ac.uk>
Subject: Risk Control Strategies for Hedge Funds and Program Trading - 4th
Annual CARISMA conference
We are pleased to announce the 4th Annual CARISMA conference, which
takes place in London at 7City Learning on 1-2 July 2008.
The theme of the conference is "Risk Control Strategies for Hedge
Funds and Program Trading". There are also four pre- and
post-conference workshops. For further details see
http://www.optirisk-systems.com/events/carisma2008.asp
The conference provides a platform to discuss the applications and
advances, and to explore future research directions. The focus is on
the emerging requirements of the finance industry, from the
perspective of performance monitoring, regulation and compliance. It
brings together practitioners and academics working in the area of
financial planning, optimisation and risk modelling. The satellite
workshops provide an in-depth view of related topics in investment and
risk modelling.
Speakers include:
* Carlo Acerbi, Abaxbank
* Art Asriev, Bear Stearns
* Les Balzer, The University of New South Wales
* Dan Bienstock, Columbia University
* Nicos Christofides, Imperial College
* Robert Clarkson, Cass Business School, City University.
* M A H Dempster, Centre for Financial Research, Judge Business School,
University of Cambridge & Cambridge Systems Associates Limited
* Dan diBartolomeo, Northfield Information Services Inc
* Chanaka Edirisinghe, University of Tennessee
* Philip Gagner, RavenPack Int'l
* Gerd Infanger, Stanford University
* Dilip Madan, University of Maryland, Consultant to Morgan Stanley & Visiting
Professor, CARISMA (Risk Awards Quant of the Year 2008)
* Gautam Mitra, CARISMA, Brunel University
* Andrew Robinson, SunGard-APT
* Bernd Scherer, Morgan Stanley
* Rob Stubbs, Axioma
* Stefan Thurner, red.stars.com
* Xunyu Zhou, University of Oxford
Topics:
* Risk Management for Hedge Funds
* Long-Short Portfolios with Downside Risk Control
* Credit Crunch, Liquidity, and Equity Market Neutral Strategies: Managing
Risk in High Volatility Markets
* Dynamic Asset Allocation
* Automated Risk Management for Global Macro Strategies
* Actuarial Insights into Hedge Fund Management
* Optimal Trade Execution
* Risk Management for Equity Trading: Fat Tails and Liquidity Gaps
* Optimal Technical Trading Rules and Risk Control in Managing Stock Portfolios
* Portfolio Implementation Shortfall Trading Strategies
* Dynamic Behavioural Portfolio Choice
* Coherent Measures of Risk
* Automated Statistical Arbitrage Funds
* Efficiencies in Multi-Account Optimisation
Pre/Post Conference Workshops:
30 June 2008: Two Half-Day WORKSHOPS:
Morning: Robust Portfolio Optimisation
Afternoon: LDI/ALM
3 July 2008: Two Half-Day WORKSHOPS:
Morning: New Developments: Performance Measures and Structured Products;
Coherent Risk Measures and Liquidity Risk
Afternoon: RavenPack workshop: News Analytics and Financial Modelling
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Michael(Xiaochen) Sun, BA(BTBU), MSc(Hull), PhD Student,
CARISMA, www.carisma.brunel.ac.uk <http://www.carisma.brunel.ac.uk/>
The Centre for the Analysis of Risk and OptimISation Modelling Applications
School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics
Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1895 265625 [M503], Fax: +44 1895 269732
Webpage:http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mapgxcs
<http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mapgxcs>
http://optirisk.googlepages.com <http://optirisk.googlepages.com/>
Blog: http://mam3xs.blogspot.com <http://mam3xs.blogspot.com/>
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Dear colleagues,
You are kindly invited to attend the following VGSF research seminars:
***Seminar 1: Real Investment and Risk Dynamics
***Speaker: Ilan Cooper (Tel Aviv University)
***Time: 2008-04-18, Friday, 14:00-15:30
***Location: 1190, Heiligenstädter Strasse 46-48, seminar room 1 (ground
floor) (WU-H46)
***Seminar 2: The Levered Equity Risk Premium and Credit Spreads: A
Unified Framework
***Speaker: Harjoat Bhamra (University of British Columbia)
***Time: 2008-04-18, Friday, 16:00-17:30
***Location: 1190, Heiligenstädter Strasse 46-48, seminar room 1 (ground
floor) (WU-H46)
The papers to be presented can be downloaded from the VGSF website
(http://www.vgsf.ac.at/activities/seminars.htm). The abstracts are
attached below.
If you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speakers,
please contact me as soon as possible.
Best regards,
Youchang Wu
Abstract 1: We show that systematic risk falls sharply following firm
investment and rises after disin-
vestment. The risk dynamics we uncover are driven by real investment and
not by changes in
firm characteristics and are strongest among firms with valuable
investment opportunities,
high adjustment costs of investment and low operating leverage.
Consistent with rational
pricing, firms with poor investment opportunities, those most likely to
be overinvesting, ex-
perience an increase in average returns and systematic risk following
investment. For firms
with valuable growth opportunities the bulk of the negative investment
(asset growth)-future
returns relationship stems from differences in risk factor loadings
between high and low in-
vesting firms.
Abstract 2: We embed a structural model of credit risk inside a
consumption-based model, which allows us to price
equity and corporate debt in a single framework. Our key economic
assumptions are that the first and
second moments of earnings and consumption growth depend on the state of
the economy which switches
randomly, creating intertemporal risk, which agents prefer to resolve
quickly because they have Epstein-
Zin-Weil preferences; agents choose capital structure and default times.
Our model generates co-movement
between aggregate stock return volatility and credit spreads, consistent
with the data and potentially resolves
the equity risk premium and credit spread puzzles.
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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:00:14 +0200
From: Walter Fisher <fisher(a)ihs.ac.at>
Subject: IHS Workshop: July 1-2, 2008
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to invite you to attend a workshop at IHS:
"Incomplete Market Economies with Production"
Organized by Egbert Dierker and Klaus Ritzberger
This will take place at Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
July 1-2, 2008.
For your information, I attach the Announcement, which includes a
preliminary list of speakers and the contact information.
[attachment removed by admin since it is available online at
http://www.ihs.ac.at/index.php3?id=1100 ]
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Best regards,
Walt Fisher
--
Walter H. Fisher
Department Head
Economics and Finance
Institute for Advanced Studies
A-1060 Vienna
Stumpergasse 56
Austria
Email: fisher(a)ihs.ac.at
http://elaine.ihs.ac.at/~fisher/
Dear colleagues,
You are kindly invited to attend the following VGSF research seminar:
***Topic: Approximate Solutions for Indifference Pricing under General
Utility Functions
***Speaker: Antoon Pelsser (University of Amsterdam)
***Time: 2008-04-11, Friday, 15:30-17:00
***Location: 1190, Heiligenstädter Strasse 46-48, seminar room 1 (ground
floor) (WU-H46)
The paper to be presented can be downloaded from the VGSF website
(http://www.vgsf.ac.at/activities/seminars.htm). The abstract is
attached below.
Professor Antoon Pelsser will arrive at WU-H46 on Thursday. If you would
like to arrange an individual meeting with him, please contact professor
Damir Filipovic.
Best regards,
Youchang
*Abstract. *With the aid of Taylor-based approximations, this paper
presents results
for pricing insurance contracts by using indifference pricing under general
utility functions. We discuss the connection between the resulting
“theoretical”
indifference prices and the pricing rule-of-thumb that practitioners
use: Best Estimate
plus a “Market Value Margin”. Furthermore, we compare our approximations
with known analytical results for exponential and power utility.
The Vienna Graduate School of Finance (VGSF) is now hosting a public mailing list.
You are invited to subscribe to this newsletter at
https://lists.wu-wien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/vgsf-newsletter
This newsletter will be mainly used to announce presentations in the VGSF research
seminar and to provide other information related to research in finance.
In the near future, announcements regarding the VGSF research seminar will not be
announced anymore via the Vienna Finance Newsletter (VFN-L), but only via the vgsf-
newsletter.
To reach all subscribers of the vgsf-newsletter you can write an email to
vgsf-newsletter at wu-wien.ac.at
Please note that vgsf-newsletter is a moderated list; thus postings will be distributed
subject to confirmation of an administrator.
Best regards,
Alois Geyer
-- Thanks to Hermann Elendner for his support.
-- The list is operated by courtesy of WU-Wien ZID and GNU/Mailman.
Dear colleagues,
You are kindly invited to attend the following VGSF research seminars:
Seminar 1: What gives? A Study of Firms' Reactions to Cash Shortfalls
Speaker: Toni Whited (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Time: 2008-04-04, Friday, 14:00-15:30
Seminar 2: Time Inconsistent Stochastic Control
Speaker: Tomas Björk (Stockholm School of Economics)
Time: 2008-04-04, Friday, 16:00-17:30
Location: 1190, Heiligenstädter Strasse 46-48, seminar room 1 (ground
floor) (WU-H46)
The paper to be presented by Toni Whited can be downloaded from the VGSF
website (http://www.vgsf.ac.at/activities/seminars.htm). The abstracts
are attached below.
Best regards,
Youchang
*What Gives? A Study of FirmsReactions to Cash Shortfalls*
*Abstract*
This paper examines the relative magnitude of financial versus real
frictions by looking at how firms react to exogenous cash shortfalls. To
answer the question theoretically, we examine a dynamic model of
financing and exogenous cash shortfalls. We find that when financing
costs are high, firms adjust on real margins and vice versa. To answer
the question empirically, we use a regression discontinuity design, in
which the discontinuity is the point of violation of underfunding of
corporate defined benefit pension plans. We examine firm-year
observations in which the firms pension assets are just barely less
than its pension liabilities, and in which, consequently, the firm must
make a mandatory contribution to its pension plan. We compare this group
to a control group of firm-year observations in which the rm has just
barely escaped having to make a mandatory contribution. In this
quasi-experimental setting, we find little evidence that firms cut back
on their real activities such as employment and investment. Instead,
they use a variety of financial tools, such as cash, working capital
management, and short-term external financing to fund their pension
liabilities.
*Time Inconsistent Stochastic Control
Abstract
*In this talk we will present some recent work on non-classical
stochastic control problems which are "time inconsistent" in the sense
that they cannot be treated by dynamic programming. We present a
game-theoretic approach to such problems and we derive an extended
version of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation in terms of a system of
PDEs for the determination of the associated subgame perfect Nash
equilibrium strategy. We also present applications from finance.
Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in
Das Forschungsinstitut für Regulierungsökonomie an der
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien hat das primäre Ziel sich mittelfristig als ein
international anerkanntes und unabhängiges Forschungszentrum zur Analyse von
regulierungsökonomischen Fragestellungen zu etablieren.
Die resultierenden Forschungsarbeiten sollen langfristig innovative
Erweiterungen der Grundlagenforschung darstellen. Gleichzeitig verfolgte das
Forschungsinstitut für Regulierungsökonomie auch die Entwicklung von
praxistauglichen Strategien für reale Märkte. Im Rahmen des Instituts wird
eine enge Kooperation von Wissenschaftern der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
mit ausländischen Forschern angestrebt und gleichzeitig der
Erfahrungsaustausch mit der Praxis gefördert.
Am Forschungsinstitut für Regulierungsökonomie ist ab sofort für 3 Jahre
eine Stelle für einen drittmittelfinanzierten wissenschaftlichen
Mitarbeiter/ eine drittmittelfinanzierte wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
(ArbeitnehmerIn der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien gem. §128 UG 2002 idgF),
vollbeschäftigt zu besetzen.
Notwendige Kenntnisse und Qualifikationen:
abgeschlossenes Studium der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
Zusätzlich erwünschte Kenntnisse und Qualifikationen:
gute analytische Fähigkeiten, sehr gute Kenntnisse in Finanzwirtschaft und
quantitativen Methoden, gute EDV-Kenntnisse, Programmierkenntnisse von
Vorteil, hervorragende Kenntnisse in Englisch.
Kennzahl: 102648
Schriftliche Bewerbungen mit Lebenslauf und Zeugnissen (Kopie) sind unter
Angabe der angeführten Kennzahl an die Personalabteilung der
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien (
<mailto:sekretariatpersabt@wu-wien.ac.at> sekretariatpersabt(a)wu-wien.ac.at)
zu richten.
Ende der Bewerbungsfrist: 2. April 2008
Bitte die Kennzahl unbedingt anführen!
Nähere Auskünfte erteilt Prof. Dr. Stefan Bogner (
<mailto:stefan.bogner@wu-wien.ac.at> stefan.bogner(a)wu-wien.ac.at)
Online:
http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/portal/dl/personal/jobs/ausschrwisspers#w120
Call for Applications:
Full Professor of Finance
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
(Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien); Ref.No. 103290
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
(Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, WU) is now inviting applications for the
position of Full Professor of Finance.
The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is the
largest business university in the European Union and is centrally located
at the heart of Europe. The University maintains an excellent position as a
center for research and teaching and attracts an international group of
students and faculty. It offers a broad range of subjects in all areas of
economics and business administration. The finance group at the Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration is one of the largest in
the German-speaking world. Resources and facilities are comparable to those
of internationally leading institutions. The University is EQUIS accredited
and is striving to achieve a top position among the leading European
business universities. For details, please see www.wu-wien.ac.at
<http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/> .
Applicants should have: a) a solid academic qualification (e.g. PhD,
Habilitation) in Finance or a related area; b) an outstanding international
reputation in high quality scholarship in the area of finance; c) a strong
record in attracting research funding; d) a demonstrated commitment to
excellence in executive teaching; and e) proven leadership qualities.
The successful candidate is expected to have established an international
reputation as a researcher in his/her field and have an outstanding
publication record. All fields of finance will be considered, but preference
will be given to the fields of derivatives, asset pricing, securities
design, empirical finance and risk management. We expect a strong interest
in teaching finance at bachelor, master, and PhD levels as well as in
executive education programs. Teaching experience in English is required;
teaching experience in German is not necessary. Non-German-speaking
candidates will be expected to acquire proficiency in German over a certain
period of time.
For details of the position, please contact Professor Stefan Pichler,
Department of Finance and Accounting, by phone: ++43-1-31336-5685, or email:
stefan.pichler(a)wu-wien.ac.at.
Candidates should send their applications (curriculum vitae, list of
publications, list of classes held as well as copies of five major journal
publications) to the Rector of Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Professor
Christoph Badelt, Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna. Electronic applications are
preferred and can be sent to nicole.reinecke(a)wu-wien.ac.at
<mailto:brigitte.parnigoni@wu-wien.ac.at> . Please quote reference no.
103290 when submitting your application. Applications must be submitted by
April 30th, 2008.
The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is an Equal
Opportunity Employer and seeks to increase the number of its female faculty
members. Therefore qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. In case
of equal qualification, female candidates will be given preference.
<http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/>
From September 2008 to December 2008, there will be a Special Semester on
Stochastics with Emphasis on Finance at the Johann Radon Institute for
Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz.
The goal of this Special Semester is to provide a stimulating environment
for mathematicians, quantitative economists and, in particular, researchers in
the areas of applied probability and analysis, computational methods and
finance to jointly address emerging challenges in the interface between
stochastics and finance. There will be a series of thematic workshops with
leading experts in the field.
Experienced researchers, post-docs and doctoral students will have the
opportunity to collaborate at RICAM in an interdisciplinary atmosphere in
order to gain new perspectives and to develop novel approaches.
Funding is available for longer stays during the semester. We particularly
encourage young researchers to apply.
For more details on the activities planned for the Special Semester as
well as for application forms, see the webpage
http://www.ricam.oeaw.ac.at/specsem/sef/
Scientific Committee:
Hansjörg Albrecher (University of Linz & RICAM, Austria),
Karl Kunisch (University of Graz & RICAM, Austria),
Hanna Pikkarainen (RICAM, Austria),
Wolfgang Runggaldier (University of Padova, Italy (Chair)),
Walter Schachermayer (TU Vienna & RICAM, Austria)
Professor Engelbert Dockner from Vienna University of Economics and
Business Administration is giving a VGSF research seminar on "Choice of
Rating Technology and Price Formation in Imperfect Credit Markets" on
March 7 (Friday, 13:15-14:45) at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien - H46
(1190, Heiligenstädter Strasse 46-48), seminar room 2 (ground floor).
The paper to be presented will be posted on the VGSF website soon
(http://www.vgsf.ac.at/activities/seminars.htm).
Please kindly note the new location and the special time of this seminar.
Best regards,
Youchang