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In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

  
  International Association of Financial Engineers - IAFE Press Release
The work of Dr. Derman is an inspiration to all financial engineers, and SunGard is delighted to be able to present Dr. Derman with this much-deserved award.
The Board of the IAFE is delighted to welcome such an outstanding practitioner of financial engineering to the group of winners.
The IAFE publishes the Journal of Derivatives which represents a merger with the IAFE's former publication the Journal of Financial Engineering, a quarterly devoted to the study of the many aspects of derivatives and financial engineering.
www.ederman.com /emanuelderman/RelatedSites/IAFE.PressRelease.html   (894 words)

  
 2002
Organizations such as the Alternative Investment Management Association and 100 Women in Hedge Funds are distributing the surveys among their membership and encouraging them to attend the Dec. 10 meeting of the IRC in Boston.
She is a steering committee member of the IAFE's Investor Risk Committee and a member of the Board of Advisors of The Financial Engineering program at the MIT-Sloan School and a Senior Advisor to the MIT Club Partnership with NYC public schools.
Members of the International Association of Financial Engineers' investor risk committee, which is made up of senior professionals from the hedge fund industry, insist that investors will not be any better off with full disclosure of hedge fund dealings.
www.cmra.com /html/2002.html   (5353 words)

  
 Investing: Associations
Association of Financial Guaranty Insurors - AFGI members insure and reinsure municipal bonds and asset-backed securities.
International Federation of Stock Exchanges - The trade organization for regulated securities and derivative markets, settlement institutions and related clearing houses, and their diverse services to capital markets.
International Primary Market Association - Trade association for the leading investment banks in their capacity as underwriters and managers of international issues.
invest.buyaah.com /Associations   (485 words)

  
 Financial Mathematics Guide [FSU Math]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
International Association of Financial Engineers, and is classified as graduate education and research by the actuarial societies.
Financial Engineering News is the bi-monthly newspaper of financial engineering.
The Financial Engineering program is designed for students wishing to obtain positions in the securities, banking, and financial management/consulting industries, and as analysts in corporate treasury and finance departments of general manufacturing and service firms.
www.math.fsu.edu /~smith/Guides/finmath.html   (6321 words)

  
 David Enke -- Financial Engineering
Financial engineering is a practical field and a practitioners’ field by its nature.
A secondary goal is to restructure cash flows for better financial management, such as using a swap to change a variable rate loan to a fixed rate loan for tax purposes and/or better cash flow predictability.
Since Financial Engineering is quantitative and computational in nature, Financial Engineers are often called "Quants." Initial jobs for Quants often involve number crunching, simulation, and analysis.
web.umr.edu /~enke/main_financialeng.html   (735 words)

  
 Investing - International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE)
International Primary Market Association: Trade association for the leading investment banks in their capacity as underwriters and managers of...
International Compliance Association: Supports and educates compliance professionals in the fight against terrorist financing, corruption, money laundering and...
Association of Financial Guaranty Insurors: AFGI members insure and reinsure municipal bonds and asset-backed securities.
www.financedir.com /investing/site/7067   (259 words)

  
 Commodity Futures Brokers Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Futures Industry Association -- FIA is the only association representative of all organizations that have an interest in the futures market.
International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. -- is the leading global trade association representing participants in the privately negotiated derivatives industry, a business which includes interest rate, currency, commodity and equity swaps, as well as related products such as caps, collars, floors and swaptions.
MFA is a national trade association of more than 690 members that represents the managed futures, hedge funds, and fund of funds industry throughout the world.
www.findbrokers.com /associations.stm   (479 words)

  
 Leo Melamed - Essays & Speeches - Wake Up Call   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In 1985 he told us we were witnessing a "galloping new system of international finance," one that was not built by politicians, economists, central bankers or finance ministers, but by men and women who interconnected the planet with telecommunications and computers.
Derivatives—the financial equivalents to particle physics and molecular biology—were born.
Just as we found it impossible to curtail the developments in gene engineering, so we will discover that financial engineering also cannot be stopped.
www.leomelamed.com /Speeches/96-wake.htm   (3101 words)

  
 :: POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY :: Department of Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This Master of Science program, the first curriculum certified by the International Association of Financial Engineers, is built upon 36 credit hours.
The Center's renowned academics and practitioners are committed to serving as an educational vanguard of the financial community.
Polytechnic's Financial Engineering Program prepares its graduates to enter fast-moving, highly rewarding careers in commercial and investment banks, investment firms, insurance companies, pension funds, information technology development firms and risk management teams.
www.poly.edu /management/graduate/fe   (198 words)

  
 About the International Association of Financial Engineers
The International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE) was organized in 1991 and launched on January 1, 1992.
It has developed a core body of knowledge for financial engineers which is available to universities interested in developing graduate programs in financial engineering.
Membership in the IAFE is open to anyone with an interest in financial engineering, either from the perspective of the practice or from the perspective of the theory.
www.fenews.com /fen4/iafe.html   (755 words)

  
 Dr. Phelim Boyle Selected as the Recipient of the 2005 IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year Award
Professor Boyle, scientific director of the Institute for Quantitative Finance and Insurance at the University of Waterloo, was selected for his contributions to the field of financial engineering.
He has pioneered the use of financial engineering techniques in actuarial science to the pricing and risk management of complex long-term options in insurance contracts.
The IAFE“s programs - from area-specific committees to monthly panel discussions to the Financial Engineer of the Year Award - are designed to provide its members with uniquely valuable activities to enhance their work in the field and opportunities to network and socialize with their colleagues.
www.sungard.com /software/news_5/drphelimboyleselectedastherecipientofthe2005iafesungard.htm   (935 words)

  
 InterPro: Financial Engineering
Financial Engineering News (FEN) is a FREE publication to anyone in the field of Financial Engineering, Investment Management, Investment Research, Risk Management, education (Both Professors and Students), and others allied to the field.
All of our articles are written by professional journalists who have focused their careers on financial journalism and financial thought leaders who are experts in their fields.
Our editorial mission is to communicate with financial professionals, management and decision-makers seeking insights they can use in their current jobs or education.
interpro.engin.umich.edu /fep/current_students/clubs&orgs.htm   (212 words)

  
 Jarrow named "Financial Engineer of the Year"
"This award was set up by the financial services industry to pay tribute to those who have made major contributions to financial engineering as both a discipline and a profession," said Jack Marshall, IAFE executive director.
Financial engineering, the application of sophisticated mathematical tools to assess and manage complex financial investment products, has become indispensable to a wide range of business activities, including investment banking, commercial banking, corporate finance, portfolio management, risk management and financial consulting and planning.
The Heath-Jarrow-Morton option pricing model, developed in 1987 with David Heath, professor of operations research in Cornell's College of Engineering, and their former doctoral student, Andrew Morton, now a senior vice president at Lehman Brothers, is considered the most general and widely applicable of the existing analytical models.
www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/97/8.21.97/Jarrow.html   (709 words)

  
 Phelim Boyle wins SunGard/IAFE Financial Engineer of Year Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
On February 2 at the SunGard and International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE) annual awards dinner in New York City, Dr. Phelim Boyle was awarded the SunGard/ IAFE Financial Engineer of the Year award for his long career of contributions and accomplishments in the field.
He pioneered the use of financial engineering techniques in actuarial science to the pricing and risk management of complex long-term options in insurance contracts.
The annual SunGard/IAFE Financial Engineer of the Year (FEOY) Award, established in 1993, recognizes individual contributions to the advancement of financial engineering technology.
www.fenews.com /fen48/one_time_articles/sungard-iafe/sungard-feoy.html   (661 words)

  
 Integrated Energy Services, LC: Our Management and Research Team
This firm's proprietary research and development group creates groundbreaking new financial technologies that have been recognized by such prestigious groups as the International Association of Financial Engineers and the Second World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts as state-of-the-art contributions to the field of finance.
Kholodnyi's experience with financial mathematics and financial capital markets includes several years of research and development experience in the areas of theoretical and numerical analysis of various contingent claims, term structure of interest rates, and dynamics of asset prices.
He acted as a technical supervisor and project planner for a team of 15 engineers, served as a project architect and requirements developer in conjunction with the firm's Japanese partner, and was also a senior programmer on various projects, designing, implementing and coding advances in input methods, multi-tasking operating systems, and an ideogramatic character generator.
www.ieslc.com /team.html   (4050 words)

  
 Georgia Tech MS QCF Program: Some Organizations and Exams Related to QCF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
GARP is now a diverse international association of professionals from a variety of backgrounds and organizations who share a common interest in the field.
This is a reflection of the increasing complexity of today's financial markets, and signifies the coming of age of the financial engineering professional.
The requirements for the certification are still in development, and the financial, business, and academic communities are encouraged to provide comments and suggestions for the content, requirements and format of the certification process.
www.qcf.gatech.edu /whatis/organizations.html   (4952 words)

  
 MTA's Instructors
He was appointed to the Census Advisory Committee representing the American Economic Association in 1992 and again in 1995 (serving as chair) and served on the board of The National Bureau of Economic Research from 1996 to 1999.
Takato Hiraki, Ph.D. Takato Hiraki is a professor of finance at Kwansei Gakuin University since April 2004 and had taught finance at the MBA program of the International University of Japan in Niigata Prefecture for sixteen years from 1988 to 2004 and University of Hawaii from 1983 to 1986.
Prior to teaching, Professor Johnson was an associate at Mayer, Brown and Platt in Chicago, Illinois and Milbank Tweed Hadley and McCloy in New York.
www.mtaglobal.com /instructors.ihtml   (6232 words)

  
 financial engineering
New derivatives are being discovered or invented almost every day in what has come to be called the process of financial engineering.
In 1993, the International Association of Financial Engineers was formed which publishes the Journal of Financial Engineering.
Each year the Association chooses the "financial engineer of the year".
www.in-the-money.com /glossarynet/financia.htm   (108 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The Laboratory for Financial Engineering is a partnership between academia and industry, designed to support and promote quantitative research in financial engineering and computational finance.
ISDA is the global trade association representing leading participants in the privately negotiated derivatives industry, a business which includes interest rate, currency, commodity and equity swaps, as well as related products such as caps, collars, floors and swaptions.
The Asia Pacific Finance Association (APFA) was created in 1993 to promote academic financial research (especially relating to the Asia Pacific region) to disseminate its findings and to facilitate the exchange of information, ideas and staff among educators and between business executives and academics through conferences and publications.
www.ie.boun.edu.tr /fe/main_ir.htm   (4661 words)

  
 Yale School of Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year Award recognizes individual contributions to the advancement of financial engineering technology.
As the tenth recipient of this prestigious award, Ingersoll was selected for his historic contributions to research and education in multiple areas of finance and economics.
Jonathan Ingersoll is the Adrian C. Israel Professor of International Trade and Finance at the Yale School of Management, where he teaches Financial Instruments and Contracts and Financial Engineering.
mba.yale.edu /news_events/CMS/Articles/1000.shtml   (555 words)

  
 Associations
Promotes financial engineering through conferences, publications, and activities of regional chapters around the world.
Global trade association for OTC derivatives, and maintainers of the industry-standard ISDA documentation.
Trade association for the leading investment banks in their capacity as underwriters and managers of international issues.
www.business-dir.com /Investing/Associations.html   (599 words)

  
 Integrated Energy Services, LC: Introduction
IES is the creator and sole owner of proprietary risk management technology that has been recognized by the University of Chicago, the International Association of Financial Engineers and the International Association of Non-Linear Analysts for its outstanding contribution to the field of financial science.
PAT is also helpful in identifying financially equivalent transactions that can provide the same wealth using more liquid vehicles, which expands an energy trader's capabilities within their own marketplace.
The International Association of Financial Engineers, in March 1997, honored IES's new scientific discovery, the General Kelvin Transform Symmtery, the basis for the Payoff Advantage Tool.
www.ieslc.com /intro.html   (1239 words)

  
 Risk management for investors special report
It was felt by professionals at the New York-based International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE) that, with investors now making up about 20% of all hedge fund assets, and with that percentage growing, that this was a pressing topic for the investment management community.
The IAFE is a global organisation devoted to defining and fostering the profession of financial engineering.
After spending almost a decade on its founding mission – to define and foster the emerging field of financial engineering – the Association is turning its focus towards the established sectors of the field and another of the IAFE’s missions – forums such as those held by the IRC on appropriate topics of interest.
www.financewise.com /public/edit/riskm/rmforinvestors/rmforinvestors-hedgefunds.htm   (1614 words)

  
 societies organizations associations risk links and resources
An interdisciplinary, international organization dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of education and research about business decisions.
The International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE) is a professional society dedicated to defining and fostering the profession of financial engineering.
NACVA is a global, professional association that supports the business valuation and litigation consulting disciplines within the CPA and professional communities.
www.decisioneering.com /resources/rec_society.html   (552 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is the world's largest engineering and computer science professional non-profit association and sponsors hundreds of technical conferences and publications annually.
The IAFE is a professional non-profit financial association with members worldwide specializing in new financial product design, derivative structures, risk management strategies, arbitrage techniques, and application of computational techniques to finance.
Early registration is $400 for IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Neural Networks Council) and IAFE (International Association of Financial Engineers) members.
www.aic.nrl.navy.mil /galist/info/conferences/cifer96   (563 words)

  
 Derivatives Portal
Through frank discussions of current policy issues, sponsoring programs to educate the financial community and recognizing the outstanding achievements in the field, the IAFE acts as a beacon for the development of quantitative finance.
Throughout its history, the IAFE's pre-eminent leadership has positioned us to respond with savvy to the evolving needs of the financial engineering community.
The IAFE's programs - from our area-specific committees to our monthly panel discussions to the Financial Engineer of the Year Award - are designed to provide our membership with uniquely valuable activities to enhance their work in the field and opportunities to network and socialize with their colleagues.
www.derivativesportal.org /Articles/detail.asp?Id=3056   (202 words)

  
 PR 20031017   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The eleventh recipient of the award, Dr. Duffie joins a prestigious list of individuals who have contributed to the advancement of financial engineering technology.
The award will be presented to Dr. Duffie at the IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year Award Gala Dinner, which will be held on February 5, 2004 at the United Nations in New York City.
Andrew Lo, a director at the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, a IAFE senior fellow, and chair of the selection committee said, “We had several strong contenders for the award, but Darrell's many contributions to financial engineering made for an extremely compelling case.
www.sungard.com /products_and_services/stars/group_news/pr_20031017.htm   (749 words)

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