Edited by Bernd Scherer, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, London, UK, and Kenneth Winston, Chief Risk Officer, Western Asset Management, Pasadena, USA
Prior to joining EDHEC-Risk, Bernd Scherer was Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Asset Allocation at Morgan Stanley in London. Previously, he was with Deutsche Asset Management where he successively headed the Investment Solutions and Overlay Management Group in Frankfurt, and Global Quantitative Research and Portfolio Engineering from New York. Bernd has 16 years of investment experience within top financial institutions. He has published over 50 articles in leading academic and practitioner journals and is a board member of the London Quant Group.
Kenneth Winston is Chief Risk Officer at Western Asset Management and a Lecturer in Economics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Previously Dr. Winston was Chief Risk Officer at Morgan Stanley Investment Management in New York and an Adjunct Professor of financial mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He began his financial career as a quantitative portfolio manager after having taught mathematics at Rutgers University. Dr. Winston, who obtained his PhD in pure mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of numerous articles and papers in mathematics and finance.
Contributors:
Heiko M. Bailer, Clariden Leu (Credit Suisse Group) and Corepoint Capital AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Dan diBartolomeo, Northfield Information Services, Inc., Boston, USA
Yossi Brandes, Investment Technology Group, New York, USA
Michael W. Brandt, Duke University, Durham, USA and NBER, Cambridge, USA
Francis Breedon, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Sebastián Ceria, Axioma, New York, USA
Ian Domowitz, Investment Technology Group, New York, USA
Daniel Giamouridis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Campbell R. Harvey, Duke University, Durham, USA
Thomas Hewett, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, New York, USA
Roy P.M.M. Hoevenaars, APG Asset Management, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Bruce I. Jacobs, Jacobs Levy Equity Management, New Jersey, USA
Ralph S.J. Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER, Cambridge, USA
Petter N. Kolm, New York University, USA
Robert Kosowski, Imperial College London, UK
Mark Kritzman, Windham Capital Management, LLC, Boston, USA
Kenneth N. Levy, Jacobs Levy Equity Management, New Jersey, USA
John C. Liechty, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Merrill W. Liechty, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
Lee Maclin, New York University, USA
Tatiana A. Maravina, University of Washington, USA
R. Douglas Martin, University of Washington, USA
Simon Myrgren, State Street Associates, Cambridge, USA
Colm O'Cinneide, QS Investors, New York, USA
Sébastien Page, State Street Associates, Cambridge, USA
Michael Peskin, Hudson Pilot LLC, New York, USA
Bernhard Scherer, EDHEC Business School, London, UK
Vitaly Serbin, Investment Technology Group, New York, USA
George Skiadopolous, University of Piraeus, Greece and University of Warwick, UK
David Starer, Jacobs Levy Equity Management, New Jersey, USA
Nils Tuchschmid, University of Applied Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland
Reha Tütüncü, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, New York, USA
Jules H. van Binsbergen, Stanford University and NBER, Cambridge, USA
Eric Wallerstein, University of Applied Sciences, Geneva
Kenneth Winston, Western Asset Management, Pasadena, USA
Michael Wolf, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Dan Wunderli, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Xiaodong Xu, Union Bank Privée, Geneva, Switzerland
Sassan Zaker, Bank Julius Bär & Co. Ltd, Zurich, Switzerland
