Andrew Colin (financial analyst)

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Andrew Colin is a financial analyst specializing in portfolio theory, one of the first to apply chaos theory to financial market. [1] He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane in the Faculty of Business. He gained a PhD in Mathematics from the University of St Andrews in 1987, is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and holds Chartered Mathematician accreditation.

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Colin has worked at or consulted for Citibank London, leading research into the use of artificial intelligence for foreign exchange and futures trading, [2] Zurich Investment Management, the Commonwealth Bank, Suncorp Metway, Chubb Security, Arthur Andersen, EDS, Alcatel and the Royal Australian Navy. He is currently Director of Flametree Technologies, a company supplying innovative fixed income portfolio analysis software, as well as a respected industry voice.

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