Related Research Articles
Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, which is the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services . Finance activities take place in financial systems at various scopes, thus the field can be roughly divided into personal, corporate, and public finance.
A financial market is a market in which people trade financial securities and derivatives at low transaction costs. Some of the securities include stocks and bonds, raw materials and precious metals, which are known in the financial markets as commodities.
Robert Cox Merton is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, especially the first continuous-time option pricing model, the Black–Scholes–Merton model. In 1997 Merton together with Myron Scholes were awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for the method to determine the value of derivatives.
Hyman Philip Minsky was an American economist, a professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis, and a distinguished scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. His research attempted to provide an understanding and explanation of the characteristics of financial crises, which he attributed to swings in a potentially fragile financial system. Minsky is sometimes described as a post-Keynesian economist because, in the Keynesian tradition, he supported some government intervention in financial markets, opposed some of the financial deregulation of the 1980s, stressed the importance of the Federal Reserve as a lender of last resort and argued against the over-accumulation of private debt in the financial markets.
Jeddah Economic Forum (JEF) is a forum held annually since 1999 during winter in the city of Jeddah, western Saudi Arabia. It has become the region's Middle East strategic think tank focusing on regional and international economic and social issues. The Jeddah Economic Forum is organized by the Jeddah Marketing Board, which is a part of Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Joseph Grundfest is an American academic. He is the William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and co-director of the Rock Center on Corporate Governance at Stanford University. He joined Stanford's faculty in 1990 after having served for more than four years as a Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, a position to which he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
Hellenic Bank Public Company Ltd is a bank in Cyprus.
Mohamed Aly El-Erian is an Egyptian-American economist and businessman. He is President of Queens' College, Cambridge, and chief economic adviser at Allianz, the corporate parent of PIMCO where he was CEO and co-chief investment officer (2007–14). He was chair of President Obama's Global Development Council (2012–17), and is a columnist for Bloomberg View, and a contributing editor to the Financial Times.
Fred S. Fraenkel is an investment professional and was a vice chair of Cowen Inc. He was on the Barron's year end roundtable for four years and managed large research organizations at several Wall Street firms. He ran his own venture fund for eight years and was until September 2015 the president and chief research officer of a Miami-based advisor of mutual funds.
Paul Allen McCulley is an American economist and former managing director at PIMCO. He coined the terms "Minsky moment" and "shadow banking system", which became famous during the Financial crisis of 2007–2009. He is currently a senior fellow at Cornell Law School and an adjunct professor at Georgetown McDonough School of Business.
William R. M. Perraudin is a British economist. He is an adjunct professor and former Chair of Finance at Imperial College London, specialising in the fields of risk and pricing of debt instruments. He is a director of the risk management software and consultancy firm Risk Control Limited.
Riccardo Rebonato is Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School and EDHEC-Risk Institute, Scientific Director of the EDHEC Risk Climate Impact Institute (ERCII), and author of journal articles and books on Mathematical Finance, covering derivatives pricing, risk management, asset allocation and climate change. Prior to this, he was Global Head of Rates and FX Analytics at PIMCO.
Peter F. Borish is chairman and CEO of Computer Trading Corporation (CTC), an investment and advisory firm whose largest consulting client is CIBC. He is also a partner in Adam Hoffman's natural gas options trading team at Torsion Technologies, LLC. Previously, through CTC, Borish was chief strategist of Quad Group and its affiliated companies. In his role, Borish was engaged in recruiting new talent for Quad and working with the founding partners on business strategy. In addition, he helped traders develop a methodology to enhance their performance by serving as a trading coach. Borish is chairman and CEO of Computer Trading Corporation (CTC), and a current investor and advisor to 444 Capital, the D'Amelio family fund.
David D. Hale was an American economist and author. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a recipient of the William F Butler Award from the National Association for Business Economics. Hale held a B.Sc. degree in international economic affairs from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a M.Sc. degree in economic history from the London School of Economics.
Andrew Balls is PIMCO's Chief Investment Officer for Global Fixed Income. He is a former Financial Times journalist. He is younger brother to the former UK Shadow Chancellor and former government minister, Ed Balls.
Emmanuel "Manny" Roman is a French financial executive. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) and a managing director of PIMCO, one of the world’s premier fixed income investment managers, based in Newport Beach, California. In 2011, he was named by the Evening Standard as one of London's 1000 most influential people.
Liviu Voinea is Romania's representative to the International Monetary Fund and Senior Advisor to the IMF Executive Director starting 26 August 2019. In this capacity he is a member of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund. He also represents Montenegro to the IMF.
Emilios Avgouleas is a Greek professor and researcher specialising in international financial markets and blockchain technology. He holds the chair in international banking law and finance at the University of Edinburgh. He is a member of the stakeholder group of the European Banking Authority.
Ishac Diwan is a prominent Lebanese economist. He currently teaches economics at l'École normale supérieure and is Director of Research at a new center which he co-founded with the French economist Daniel Cohen and other colleagues called Finance for Development Lab located at the Centre pour la recherche économique et ses applications (CEPREMAP).
References
- https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Derivatives-Pricing-Applications-Mathematics/dp/0521066794
- https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/members/students/postgraduate-courses/msc-mathematical-finance-part-time/information-applicants-pa-0
- https://www.reuters.com/article/allianz-moves-idUSL3N1634LV
- https://www.pimco.com/experts/jamil-baz
- https://www.ft.com/content/418ceb14-c45d-11e1-9c1e-00144feabdc0
- https://www.ft.com/content/580fa460-8e8d-11df-964e-00144feab49a
- https://www.ft.com/content/71b38230-da3e-11e5-a72f-1e7744c66818
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-30/pimco-s-baz-says-japan-in-a-bind-as-total-debt-tops-600-of-gdp
- List of quantitative analysts
 | This United Kingdom business-related biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |