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The MathFinance Newsletter #136

The MathFinance Newsletter, Edition 136, March 27 2006.

Previous editions and this edition in html format can be found on http://www.mathfinancenews.com/.

In this issue:

  1. MathFinance Job Exchange
    1. Associate (m/w) Advisory für Bewertungsfragen im Financial Risk Management bei KPMG Frankfurt
    2. Front-Office Entwickler Java/C++ (m/w), Quanteam, Frankfurt
    3. Quantitative/r Analyst/in/Researcher/in bei Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. im Investmentbanking / Bereich Trading & Derivatives
    4. Mathematiker, Physiker oder Wirtschaftsinformatiker: d-fine GmbH, Frankfurt
    5. Senior Risiko-Controller / Financial- & Derivatives Analysts in der Bankgesellschaft Berlin
  2. MathFinance Events
    1. Frankfurt MathFinance Workshop 27-28 March 2006
    2. Latest Developments: Credit Derivatives / Credit CPPI & Credit Hybrids, 27 - 29 Mar 2006, Central London
    3. Certificate in Quantitative Finance, Frankfurt, 4th April 2006
    4. Latest Developments: Equity Derivatives / Stochastic Volatility / Option Variance & Equity Hybrids, 5 - 7 April 2006, Central London
    5. Call for Registration: 9th Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research (SGF), 7 April 2006, Zürich
    6. Inflation Linked Derivatives Workshop, 10 - 12 April 2006, Central London
    7. Estimating and Forecasting Financial Market Volatility and Correlation, May 1-5, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
    8. Interest-Rate Models: Theory and Practical Applications, May 8-12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
    9. WBS Training USA Fixed Income Derivatives Week: Inflation Linked Derivatives, Interest Rate/Hybrid Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, CDOs & CDO^2 Workshop Week, 15 - 19 May 2006, New York
    10. NMF2006 - International Conference on Numerical Methods for Finance, 7th-9th June 2006, Dublin, Ireland
    11. The Latest Developments: Interest Rate Modelling, 12 - 13 June 2006, Venice
    12. Daniel Duffy's Advanced C++ for Financial Instrument Pricing, 26 - 29 June 2006, Frankfurt
    13. Einführung in Monte Carlo-Methoden und C++ im Financial Engineering, 10th-14th July 2006, HfB Frankfurt
    14. Bachelier Finance Society 2006 Fourth World Congress, August 17-20 2006, Tokyo
  3. MathFinance Resources
    1. Advanced Monte Carlo Methods I & II
    2. Springer Yellow Sale Mathematics und Birkhäuser Green Sale 2006
    3. Abramowith&Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions With Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables on the web
    4. Visual Studio Express: Free, but limited editions of Visual Studio 2005 for a single programming language supported by .NET
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In detail:
 
 

  1. MathFinance Job Exchange

    1. Associate (m/w) Advisory für Bewertungsfragen im Financial Risk Management bei KPMG Frankfurt

      Ihre Perspektive: Ist Risikomanagement bei Banken Ihr Thema? Dann sind Sie bei uns genau richtig.

      Ihre Aufgaben: Die Analyse und Entwicklung von Modellen für die Derivatebewertung und das Risikomanagement bilden Ihr Betätigungsfeld. Hier übernehmen Sie frühzeitig Verantwortung in Projekten zur fachlich-orientierten Beratung und Prüfungsunterstützung im Investment Banking, Treasury, Kreditmanagement, Risikocontrolling. Ihr analytisches Verständnis und Ihre Kreativität ermöglichen es Ihnen, innerhalb kurzer Zeit Problemstellungen zu strukturieren und zu lösen. Sie arbeiten in einem hoch qualifizierten und ambitionierten Team. Ihre Arbeitsergebnisse entwickeln und diskutieren Sie mit dem Mandanten, bei dem Sie Ihre Lösungsvorschläge in hochrangig besetzten Gremien präsentieren und vertreten.

      Ihr Profil: Sie haben ein Universitätsstudium der Mathematik, Wirtschaftsmathematik, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Physik, BWL oder VWL mit quantitativem Schwerpunkt absolviert und Ihre überdurchschnittliche Qualifikation z.B. durch einen sehr guten Abschluss und/oder eine Promotion bewiesen. Sie haben Interesse an der Weiterentwicklung von Modellen, die die Bewertung und das Risikomanagement von neuen Produkten und in neuen Märkten ermöglichen. Der effiziente Einsatz numerischer Verfahren wie Monte Carlo Simulation und deren Umsetzung in C++ ist Teil Ihrer praktischen Erfahrung. Sie verfügen über außerordentliche analytische Fähigkeiten und haben großen Spaß daran, ständig neue Dinge zu lernen und zielorientiert umzusetzen. Sehr gute Englischkenntnisse setzen wir voraus. Sie sind sicher im Auftreten sowie team- und kundenorientiert. Ein Auslandsaufenthalt und/oder relevante Praktika runden Ihr Profil ab.

      Ihr Kontakt: Bewerben Sie sich online auf http://www.kpmg.de/careers

      oder senden Sie Ihre Bewerbung unter Angabe des Referenzcodes: AdvFestFSoJo50204504 an das

      Recruiting Team, KPMG,
      Klingelhöferstr. 18,
      10785 Berlin,
      eMail: [spam save email].

      Für weitere Rückfragen steht Ihnen das HR Service Phone unter 0 800 KPMG JOB (0 800 5764 562) zur Verfügung.

      Profitieren Sie von den Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten bei KPMG, einem weltweiten Verbund national selbständiger Mitgliedsfirmen. Neben abwechslungsreichen Projekten im In- und Ausland bieten wir Ihnen Raum für Ihre persönliche Weiterentwicklung. Mehr wissen, mehr können - bei uns hat Erfolg, wer team- und mandantenorientiert arbeitet und gleichzeitig seine persönliche Entwicklung vorantreibt.



    2. Front-Office Entwickler Java/C++ (m/w), Quanteam, Frankfurt

      Quanteam ist eine kleine Beratungsfirma, die sich auf die Entwicklung von quantitativen Modellen im Finanzwesen, sowie deren Integration in die IT-Systeme eines Finanzinstituts spezialisiert hat. Die Stärke von Quanteam liegt in der Vereinigung von Kompetenzen aus den Bereichen angewandte Finanzmathematik und Informationstechnologie. Unsere Kunden erwarten von uns hochwertige Lösungen aus einer Hand. Wir setzen dies um, von der ersten Idee über die Konzeptionierung bis hin zur professionellen Implementierung, Live-Stellung und anschliessenden Betreuung. Nach unserer Gründung 2003 haben sich schnell erste Erfolge eingestellt, so dass wir uns nun weiter personell verstärken wollen. Hierfür suchen wir einen Mitarbeiter mit folgendem Profil:

      Einen Front-Office Entwickler Java/C++ (m/w)

      Das wird Sie inhaltlich erwarten

      • Die fachliche und technische Weiterentwicklung einer von Quanteam entwickelten Java-basierten Anwendung im Front-Office-Umfeld einer Bank.
      • Entwicklung von Pricing-Sheets und anderen Tools.
      • Support und Weiterentwicklung aller Entwicklungsergebnisse, die im Laufe der Zeit entstehen.


      Sie verfügen über

      • Ein Studium der Informatik oder Naturwissenschaften, dass Sie mit sehr gutem Erfolg abgeschlossen haben.
      • Mindestens 2-3 Jahre Berufserfahrung im Handelsumfeld von Banken oder Finanzdienstleistern.
      • Sehr gute Kenntnisse in Java und nachweisbare Praxis im Umgang mit J2EE. Idealerweise haben Sie in mindestens in einem J2EE-Projekt gearbeitet und ggf. auch Frameworks wie bspw. »Spring« eingesetzt.
      • Gute bis sehr gute Kentnisse in C++, die Bereitschaft, kleinere Tools auch in VBA zu entwicklen und der Umgang mit Microsoft-Technologien wie COM oder OLE ergänzen idealerweise Ihr Portfolio.
      • Ein Repertoire von gelösten Aufgaben aus vorwiegend technischen Fragestellungen, aber auch finanzmathematischen Problemen im kleineren Rahmen.
      • Allgemeine Kentnisse der üblichen Entwicklungstools, wobei Sie auch IDE-freie Umgebungen wie Makefiles oder Ant vor keine größeren Probleme stellen.
      • Idealerweise fundiertes Unix-Know How sowie ergänzend praktisches oder theoretisches Know How aus dem Cluster/Grid-Umfeld.
      • Sehr gute Eigenmotivation, in kleinen Teams zu arbeiten und dabei selbständig und eigenverantwortlich Aufgaben in interessanten Projekten zu übernehmen und zu lösen.
      • Einen starken Kundenfokus. Dazu gehört ein gutes Mass an Kommunikationsfähigkeit, keine Angst davor, eigene technische Realisierungsideen vorzustellen, zu vertreten und zu implementieren.


      Wir bieten Ihnen

      • Vom ersten Tag an arbeiten Sie selbständig in langfristigen Beratungsprojekten in den Bereichen Entwicklung von Front-Office-Technologien, Integration von Handelssystemen, Grid-Systeme und der Entwicklung von Bewertungsmodellen für Finanz-Derivate mit.
      • In der täglichen Zusammenarbeit mit einem hochqualifizierten Team, das Wert auf Wissenstransfer und Ideenaustausch legt, werden Sie Ihre vorhandenen Fähigkeiten zügig weiter ausbauen können und müssen.
      • Zusätzlich unterstützen wir Ihre Weiterqualifikation mit einem auf Ihr Profil zugeschnittenen Fortbildungsprogramm.


      Bewerbungen schicken Sie bitte unter Angabe des frühestmöglichen Starttermins, Ihrer Gehaltsvorstellung und sonstigen Anlagen an folgende Adresse:

      Quanteam GbR
      Sören Gerlach
      Basaltstr. 28
      60487 Frankfurt

      Gerne nehmen wir Ihre Unterlagen auch per eMail entgegen (vorzugsweise im PDF-Format), bitte richten Sie diese an [spam save email].

      Wir erwarten von Ihnen im Rahmen der Bewerbung oder des ersten Vorstellungsgesprächs eine Arbeitsprobe (bspw. Quelltexte), die Ihre Stärken und Kenntnisse herausstellt.

      Telefonische Anfragen beantwortet Ihnen Herr Sören Gerlach unter 0170. 962 66 53.

    3. Quantitative/r Analyst/in/Researcher/in bei Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. im Investmentbanking / Bereich Trading & Derivatives

      Der Bereich Trading & Derivatives der Privatbank Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. sucht eine(n) Mitarbeiter(in) für die Modellentwicklung von Aktien- und Zinsderivaten.

      Tätigkeitsprofil / Aufgaben

      • Entwicklung von über Black/Scholes hinausgehenden Pricingmodellen für Aktien- und Zinsderivate
      • Implementierung dieser Modelle in C++
      • Enge Zusammenarbeit mit dem Handelstisch
      • Verantwortung für die numerische und ökonomische Korrektheit von Positionsführung und Pricing

      Ausbildung und Kenntnisse

      • Diplom in Finanzmathematik oder Stochastik
      • Gerne Promotion
      • Gute Kenntnisse der aktuellen Fachliteratur zu einem spezifischen Schwerpunktthema (z.B. Stochastic Volatility, Zinsderivate...)
      • Fortgeschrittene Programmierkenntnisse in C++
      • Sehr gute Deutsch- und Englischkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift

      Kontakt:

      Dr. Peter Schwendner
      Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie.
      Untermainanlage 1
      D-60329 Frankfurt am Main
      E-Mail: [spam save email]
      Tel. 069 7134 5460



    4. Mathematiker, Physiker oder Wirtschaftsinformatiker: d-fine GmbH, Frankfurt

      Sie haben in der Wissenschaft viel bewegt? Dann können Sie auch in der Wirtschaft viel bewegen! Davon sind wir bei d-fine fest überzeugt.

      d-fine ist mit über einhundert Beratern eines der größten auf die Finanzwelt spezialisierten Beratungsunternehmen in Europa. Wir fokussieren höchste naturwissenschaftlich- technische Kompetenz auf die anspruchsvollen Herausforderungen unserer Kunden.

      Wir beraten Banken, Versicherungen und Industrieunternehmen beim Aufbau ihrer Handels- und Risikomanagementsysteme von der ersten Idee bis zur professionellen Implementierung der Lösung, vom finanzmathematischen Modell bis zur real-time Schnittstelle, vom einfachen Kredit bis zum exotischen Derivat, vom Ratingsystem bis zur Portfoliosteuerung, von IAS 39 bis Basel II.

      Unsere Kunden schätzen unseren kompromisslos hohen Qualitätsanspruch und vor allem, dass wir diesen Anspruch auch realisieren. Das beginnt schon bei der Auswahl unserer Mitarbeiter: Wir suchen Sie als Naturwisssenschaftler, Mathematiker oder Informatiker. Sie besitzen einen exzellenten Hochschulabschluss, sprechen fließend Englisch und haben überdurchschnittliche IT- sowie Programmierkenntnisse. Idealerweise sind Sie darüber hinaus mit Statistik, Numerik und Finanzmathematik vertraut und beherrschen Simulationsmethoden wie beispielsweise Monte Carlo.

      Unbedingt erwarten wir von Ihnen analytisches Denken, ergebnisorientiertes Vorgehen und exzellente Kommunikationsfähigkeiten. Sie sind teamfähig, erfassen auch sehr komplexe Aufgaben schnell und können sich rasch in neue IT-Umgebungen einarbeiten. Sie haben Beratungstalent, hohe Einsatzfreude und sind flexibel und belastbar.

      Selbstverständlich geben wir Ihnen eine intensive Einführung in Ihr zukünftiges Aufgabenfeld sowie ein anspruchsvolles finanzmathematisches Training auf höchstem Niveau in Zusammenarbeit mit führenden internationalen Universitäten.

      Wenn Sie in einem Team hoch begabter und hoch motivierter Kollegen mitarbeiten wollen, große individuelle Freiräume, viel Eigenverantwortung sowie hervorragende Entwicklungsperspektiven suchen, freut sich Frau Yasemin Keles auf Ihre Bewerbung.

      Willkommen im d-fine Team!

      Starten Sie durch!

      d-fine GmbH
      Opernplatz 2
      60313 Frankfurt am Main
      Telefon: +49-69-90737-0
      E-mail:[spam save email]
      Homepage:http://www.d-fine.de

    5. Senior Risiko-Controller / Financial- & Derivatives Analysts in der Bankgesellschaft Berlin

      Die Bankgesellschaft Berlin AG ist die Universalbank der Hauptstadt. Unser Bereich Risikocontrolling ist zuständig für die Messung, die Kontrolle und das Reporting sämtlicher Risiken des Konzerns. Des weiteren gehört die Umsetzung aufsichtsrechtlicher Anforderungen (z.B. Basel II) zu den Aufgaben des Risikocontrollings. Darüber hinaus ist der Bereich in diversen Steuerungsgremien des Konzerns vertreten, um die effiziente Umsetzung des Risikomanagements zu gewährleisten.

      Ihre Aufgabe in der Abteilung Markt- und Liquiditätsrisiko

      • Erstellen und Ausbau des täglichen MaH-Reports zu den Handelsaktivitäten und Ergebnissen der Geschäftsfelder des Investment Bankings sowie des Konzerns an den Vorstand
      • Weiterentwicklung und Betreuung einer eigenentwickelten dezentralen Middle-Office-Software
      • Analyse der Geschäftsaktivitäten der einzelnen Handelseinheiten in Bezug auf Gewinn-Ermittlung, Kredit-, Liquiditäts- und Marktrisiko
      • Methodische Weiterentwicklung von Risikokonzepten
      • Bewertung von derivativen Strukturen (Exotische Optionen, strukturierte Produkte - Emissionen, Convertibles)
      • Entwicklung und Anwendung von Konzepten zur Risikoermittlung von Einzelgeschäften und Portfolios
      • Unterstützung des Middle-Office Teams bei der Evaluierung der Financial Library
      • Weiterentwicklung von Risk-Monitoring Systemen


      Ihr Profil

      • Quantitativ orientierte Hochschulausbildung, wie (Wirtschafts-) Mathematiker, Physiker, Wirtschaftsingenieure, Ökonometriker und Betriebs-, bzw. Volkswirte mit quantitativem Schwerpunkt (Statistik, Operations Research)
      • sehr gute Kenntnisse in Mathematik und Statistik
      • ausgeprägte Kenntnisse in Finanzmathematik
      • theoretische und praktische Erfahrung im Umgang mit Produkten aus dem Investment Banking , insbesondere Convertibles und strukturierte Zertifikate (wünschenswert sind 2-3 Jahre Erfahrung im Risikocontrolling)
      • Kenntnisse in Office-Produkten wie WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT und ACCESS, C++ und Microsoft SQL
      • ausgeprägtes analytisches Denkvermögen, Präsentations- und Diskussionssicherheit sowie Teamfähigkeit
      • gute Englischkenntnisse
      • Ausgeprägte Teamorientierung
      • Hohes Maß an Kreativität und Flexibilität
      • Strukturierte, projektorientierte Arbeitsweise


      Was wir bieten

      • Ein hochinteressantes, vielschichtiges Betätigungsfeld
      • Mitarbeit in einem kompetenten und hochmotivierten Team
      • Attraktive Bezahlung und Sozialleistungen


      Ihre Ansprechpartner

      Bankgesellschaft Berlin AG
      Bereich Personal
      Corinna Popowski
      BG-PE 4
      Alexanderplatz 2
      D-10178 Berlin
      [spam save email]

      Bankgesellschaft Berlin AG
      Bereich Risikocontrolling
      Dr. Michael Dziedzina
      BG-RC
      Alexanderplatz 2
      D-10178 Berlin
      [spam save email]




  2. MathFinance Events



    1. Latest Developments: Credit Derivatives / Credit CPPI & Credit Hybrids, 27 - 29 Mar 2006, Central London

      Day 1: Credit Derivatives: From Basic - Hybrids Workshop

      Presenter: Philipp Schönbucher, Assistant Professor, Risk Management, (ETH) Zurich

      Topics Covered:

      • Single-Name Credit Risk Models
      • Term structures of hazard rates and credit spreads, implied survival probabilities
      • Structural models, Merton, Black-Cox, Credit-Equity hybrids and latest developments in structural models.
      • Portfolio Credit Risk Models
      • Basic model-free Single-Tranche CDO pricing relationships
      • Copula models, Gauss copula, the market standard model, implied correlation.
      • Numerical techniques for factor models: Convolution, Fast Fourier Transforms
      • Numerical techniques for simulation models: Importance sampling, sensitivities with Likelihood-ratio methods


      Day 2: Latest Developments: Credit Derivatives Modelling Techniques

      Presenters:
      Jon Gregory: Global Credit Derivatives: Barclays Capital
      Dominic O’Kane: Head of Fixed Income Quantitative Research, Lehman Brothers
      David Shelton: Director, Global Credit Derivatives Research, Citigroup

      Topics Covered:

      • Complete overview of Modelling Correlation Skews
      • The Gaussian Copula Model and Beyond
      • Correlation Market Dynamics and Skew Models
      • A Correlation Skew Model with Sensible Dynamics
      • Comparing Base Correlation with Market Dynamics
      • Latest developments in CDOs
      • Bespoke CDO Pricing- Determining the Correlation Skew from Portfolio Composition


      Day 3: Latest Developments: Credit CPPI & Credit Hybrid Products

      Presenters:

      Rishad Ahluwalia Structured Products Research, JPMorgan Securities
      Claudio Albanese: Chair of Mathematical Finance, Imperial College London
      Didier Campant: Credit Structurer, Associate Director, BNP Paribas
      Philipp Schönbucher, Assistant Professor, Risk Management, (ETH) ZURICH

      Topics Covered:

      • Market overview of Credit CPPI
      • Portfolio Insurance Strategies and CDOs
      • An introduction to Credit SPI/CPPI
      • The Loss-Market-Model: Pricing Portfolio-Credit - Interest-Rate Hybrids and exotic Portfolio Credit Derivatives
      • Applications of the Model: Forward-starting CDOs, Options on Indices, Options on Tranches, Hybrid Products with Credit Correlation Components.
      • Dynamic Credit Correlation Models and Hybrids
      • Intrinsic Credit-Equity Hybrids: EDSs and Convertible Bonds
      • Extrinsic Hybrids: Mezzanine Swaps and Credit Linked Options


      Contact: Neil Fowler
      T: 44(0) 1273 674400 F: 44(0) 1273 672333
      Weblink: http://www.wbstraining.com/index.php?m=WORKSHOPS&p=courses/ldcd.php
      Website: http://www.wbstraining.com
      Email: [spam save email]

      Fees: Workshops: £999:00
      Register to ANY ONE day TWO days or all THREE days of the workshop
      Register to ANY TWO days of the workshop and receive £200 discount
      Register to ALL THREE workshop days and receive £300 discount

    2. Frankfurt MathFinance Workshop 27-28 March 2006

      This year with Oliver Brockhaus, Peter Carr, Stephen Taylor, Robert Tompkins, Jan Vecer and many others.

      Registration is now open.

      More information is available at
      http://workshop.mathfinance.de

    3. Certificate in Quantitative Finance, Frankfurt, 4th April 2006

      Dr Paul Wilmott will be presenting the Certificate in Quantitative Finance in Frankfurt on the 4th April 2006

      The Event

      Dr Paul Wilmott, one of the most experienced and respected experts in Quantitative Finance will be presenting the internationally renowned CQF at the Dorint Sofitel on Tuesday 4th April at 6:30pm

      You are invited to join him and the CQF team to find out why the qualification is the fastest growing quantitative finance program in the world, who the expert tutor faculty are and how taking it will benefit you and your career.

      You will have the opportunity to meet the Course Directors and past delegates to ask questions, view materials and access class recordings over a glass of wine.

      Book your Place

      To ensure your place (offered on first-com-first-served basis) a reservation is required. Admittance will not be permitted unless your name is on the guest list.

      Please email Albine Horiot [spam save email] to confirm your attendance. Full details will then be forwarded to you.

      More Info about CQF

      The CQF programme is delivered in the classroom in London and also live over the web (one evening class per week for 24 weeks commencing at 6pm London time). However for those delegates not able to webcast in live, all the classes are recorded and posted to an online account 24 hours after the class has been delivered - delegates can view the class in perpetuity and as many times as they wish. In addition all CQF delegates have access to a full library of additional classes that is continually increased and accessed by CQF alumni for continuing professional development, after they have completed the program.

      Course notes and exercises for the CQF are emailed to distance learning delegates 24 hrs before each class and all delegates (class and distance) are required to complete an exam paper at the end of each module (self regulated).

      For each program we now admit approximately 80-85 delegates from US, Europe and Asia. I would be happy to put you in contact with some past delegates if you wish to have some feed back.

      The programme is delivered twice a year, in January and in June. The next course will start on the 29th June 2006.

      Contact us

      For full listings of dates and costs, and to view sample recordings, please visit our website at http://www.7city.com/cqf, call Albine Horiot on +44 (0)20 7 496 8652 or contact [spam save email].

    4. Latest Developments: Equity Derivatives / Stochastic Volatility / Option Variance & Equity Hybrids, 5 - 7 April 2006, Central London

      Day 1: Equity Derivatives: From Basic - Hybrids Workshop

      Presenter: Oliver Brockhaus: Head of Equity Financial Engineering, Commerzbank Corporates & Markets

      Topics Covered:

      • From market to model: Basics
      • Complete smile models
      • Stochastic volatility
      • Monte Carlo
      • Correlation
      • Hybrids


      Day 2: Latest Developments: Equity Derivatives Modelling Techniques

      Presenters:
      Frédéric Abergel: Head of Equity Derivatives Quant Analytics: Ixis-cib
      Sebastien Bossu, VP, Global Equity Derivatives, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
      Daniel Bloch: Manager, Barclays Capital
      Nicolas Mougeot: Senior Derivatives Analyst, BNP Paribas

      Topics Covered:

      • Understanding option trading and variance swaps
      • Options on quadratic payoffs within Affine and Quadratic models
      • A proper dynamic for the variance swap within the class of Affine and Quadratic models
      • 3rd generation volatility products: variance swaps and beyond
      • The emergence of variance swaps and their valuation
      • Comparison of calibration and hedge performances for various stochastic volatility models
      • Requirements for a “good” stochastic volatility modelling
      • LSV model: theoretical and practical issues


      Day 3: Latest Developments: Equity Hybrid Products

      Presenters:
      Claudio Albanese: Chair of Mathematical Finance, Imperial College London
      Damiano Brigo: Head of Credit Models: Banca IMI
      Tariq Dennison: Vice President, Bear Sterns
      Representative: AXA-IM

      Topics Covered:

      • Equity Derivatives and Hybrids
      • Almost stationary calibration and forward start skews
      • Latest Developments CPPI
      • Credit Default Swap Calibration and Equity Swap Valuation with a time varying Black-Cox type Structural Model
      • Complete overview of Interest Rate / Equity Hybrids


      Fees: Workshops: £999:00
      Register to ANY ONE day TWO days or all THREE days of the workshop
      Register to ANY TWO days of the workshop and receive £200 discount
      Register to ALL THREE workshop days and receive £300 discount

      Contact: Neil Fowler
      T: 44(0) 1273 674400 F: 44(0) 1273 672333
      Weblink: http://www.wbstraining.com/index.php?m=WORKSHOPS&p=courses/lde.php
      Website: http://www.wbstraining.com
      Email: [spam save email]

    5. Call for Registration:
      9th Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Markets (SGF)
      http://www.fmpm.ch

      Publisher of the Journal Financial Markets and Portfolio Management
      April 7, 2006, Zürich (SWX Swiss Exchange)

      We would like to invite both academics and practitioners for the 9th Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research.

      There will be

      • 70 presentations of papers on different topics of the latest financial market research
      • the keynote speech by Philipp M. Hildebrand, Member of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank Monetary Policy and Financial Markets

      Please find the preliminary program and more detailed information at the website http://www.fmpm.ch/docs/conference.htm or contact Ms Marianne Diel ([spam save email], phone +49(0)261/6509421).

      Best regards

      Dr. Matthias Muck
      Professor Dr. Markus Rudolf


      Academic Directors

      Chair of Finance
      Sponsored by Dresdner Bank AG
      WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management
      Burgplatz 2, D - 56179 Vallendar
      Germany

      Tel.: +49 (0) 261 / 6509 421
      Fax: +49 (0) 261 / 6509 409
      http://www.whu.edu/banking



    6. Inflation Linked Derivatives Workshop, 10 - 12 April 2006, Central London

      Day 1: Introducing Inflation-linked Securities and Derivatives: Introductory / Intermediate

      Presenters: Dr David Murphy & Dr Andrew Street: Value Consultants Limited

      Topics Covered:

      • Inflation and Inflation-Linked Bonds
      • Investors and the Demand for Inflation-Linked Products
      • Inflation-Linked Securities and Derivatives: Perspectives for Traders and Issuers
      • Inflation Swaps and Inflation-Link Product
      • Structuring Building the Inflation Curve
      • Pricing and Trading Options on Inflation


      Day 2: Latest Developments: Inflation-linked Derivatives

      Presenters:

      Jeroen Kerkhof: Quantitative Fixed Income Research, Lehman Brothers
      Dariush Mirfendereski: Head of Inflation Linked Trading, UBS
      Stephane Salas: Head of Inflation Trading, Societe Generale

      Topics Covered:

      • Inflation Derivatives Explained
      • Valuation and risk of structured inflation products
      • Practical Perspectives on Pricing, Trading, and Hedging Inflation-Indexed Derivatives - from the Dark Ages to the Present
      • The Road Ahead: what to watch out for in this fast developing market
      • The European Inflation Swaps market: From Exotic to Vanilla in just two years
      • Correlation trading: The future of inflation relative value trading?


      Day 3: Latest Developments: Inflation-linked Derivatives

      Presenters:

      Mark Capleton: Head of Inflation Linked Research, The Royal Bank of Scotland
      Lane P Hughston: Professor of Financial Mathematics, King's College London
      Alan James: Head of Inflation Linked Research, Barclays Capital

      Topics Covered:

      • Models for real interest rates and inflation: New Directions
      • General theory of inflation dynamics
      • "Hidden variables" models for inflation
      • Real Yield Determinants - How Did We Get Here?
      • Modelling the behaviour of real yield spreads between markets
      • The real yield beta term structure - puzzles and illusions
      • Broadening the usage of Inflation Products
      • Using Inflation linked forwards


      Fees: Workshops: £999:00
      Register to ANY ONE day TWO days or all THREE days of the workshop
      Register to ANY TWO days of the workshop and receive £200 discount
      Register to ALL THREE workshop days and receive £300 discount

      Contact: Neil Fowler
      T: 44(0) 1273 674400 F: 44(0) 1273 672333
      Weblink: http://www.wbstraining.com/index.php?m=WORKSHOPS&p=courses/ild.php
      Website: http://www.wbstraining.com
      Email: [spam save email]

    7. Estimating and Forecasting Financial Market Volatility and Correlation, May 1-5, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland

      Lecturer: Professor Tim Bollerslev
      Organizer: Swiss Finance Institute

      Course Description:

      A revolution in modeling and forecasting financial market volatility and correlation has swept academic research and the financial services industry over the past two decades, with the new methods finding wide ranging applications in asset and option pricing, portfolio allocation, and risk measurement and management decisions. This course surveys these methods, their successes and failures, and their future potential. The discussion is designed to strike a balance between intuition and mathematical rigor, and also includes consideration of practical computational issues.

      Objectives:

      The course develops an appreciation and understanding of the importance of time-varying volatility and correlation in financial asset returns, the tools and techniques of modern financial volatility and correlation modeling and forecasting, and the pitfalls and opportunities that arise as the technology moves forward.

      Target Audience:

      Professionals in the financial services industry from a variety of backgrounds, including risk management, portfolio management, trading, regulation, derivatives valuation and research, and consulting, as well as financial engineers, economists, managers and statisticians, who want to understand and use cutting-edge volatility and correlation models. The course is self-contained, but some mathematical and statistical maturity is expected.

      Course Content

      • Who Uses Volatility Models, and Why? Forecasting; risk management; asset allocation; asset pricing; option pricing; hedging; speculation.
      • Financial Asset Return Data: unconditional and conditional return distributions; volatility measures; squared returns and the link to volatility; time variation in volatility; fat tails and jumps; distributional properties of high-, mid-, and low-frequency data; high-frequency data and intra-day calendar effects; high-frequency data and news announcement effects.
      • ARCH and GARCH Models: basic structures and properties; volatility forecasting and scaling; ARMA representations; temporal aggregation; prediction-error decomposition; estimation and testing.
      • Variations on GARCH Models: asymmetry and leverage effects; component GARCH; non-normal conditional densities; integrated volatility; long memory models; regime switching; GARCH-M and time-varying risk premia; high-frequency data and GARCH modeling; Value-at-Risk and quantile predictions; tail probabilities and tail index estimation.
      • Multivariate Volatility Models: commonalities in volatility; exponential smoothing; multivariate GARCH; factor structures; constant conditional correlations; dynamic conditional correlations; time-varying betas and factor loadings.
      • Implied Volatilities: model-based vs. market-based volatilities; Black-Scholes implied volatilities; model-free implied volatilities; risk-neutral distributions; implied volatility vs. realized volatility; volatility and covariance swaps.
      • Realized Volatilities: high-frequency data and market microstructure frictions; construction of realized volatilities; distributional properties; mixture models; realized volatility forecasting; realized betas.
      • Stochastic Volatility Models: basic structures and properties; state space representations; estimation strategies; information arrival, time deformation and stochastic volatility; links to continuous time modeling; stochastic volatility vs. GARCH; filtering and forecasting.


      Other suggested links:

      Geneva Executive Courses in Finance 2006 course program
      Professor Tim Bollerslev's home page
      Organization, Admission, Procedure & Fee
      Application Form (pdf format)

      For all other questions, please contact :

      Fabienne Garcelon or Olga Solari
      Program Managers
      Swiss Finance Institute
      Av. Blanc 49
      CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland
      T +41 22 731 95 55
      F +41 22 731 95 75
      [spam save email]
      http://www.SwissFinanceInstitute.ch

    8. Interest-Rate Models: Theory and Practical Applications, May 8-12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland

      Lecturer: Professor Yacine Aït-Sahalia
      Organizer: Swiss Finance Institute

      Course Description:

      Interest-rate models represent one of the most active areas of finance research and practice. Recent advances in this area are essential to the correct pricing and hedging of interest-rate derivatives and the accuracy of risk management.

      Objectives:

      This intensive course provides a full treatment of the state-of-the-art theory of interest-rate models and their practical applications. Participants will learn and enhance their understanding of the fundamental mathematical tools and quantitative techniques as well as the latest research used throughout the derivatives industry. Most of the models discussed and statistical techniques are implemented in spreadsheets which are reviewed each day and given to the participants.

      Target Audience:

      Central bankers, traders, quantitative researchers, financial engineers, fixed income asset managers, risk managers, derivatives salespeople, financial software developers, senior management of financial institutions.

      Course Content

      Part I: The Mathematics of Interest-Rate Modeling

      • Fixed Income Instruments: riskless bonds, bonds with default risk, coupon bonds.
      • The Term Structure: spot rates, forward rates, duration, convexity, bond portfolio management.
      • Continuous-Time Calculus: Brownian motion, Itô's Lemma, discrete-time approximation, the Euler scheme, the Milstein scheme, trees.
      • Arbitrage and Risk-Neutral Pricing: asset dynamics and pricing, factor and derivative price dynamics, traded and nontraded underlying, partial differential equations, the risk-neutral density, the Feynman-Kac formula, general characterization of no-arbitrage prices.
      • Interest-Rate Derivatives: applying the method to forward contracts, bond options, caps, floors and collars, swaps, swaptions.
      • Numerical Methods for Interest-Rate Models: methods for trees; replicating portfolio, risk-neutral and actual densities; methods for partial differential equations; finite-difference grid and algorithms, the Crank-Nicholson algorithm; methods based on the Feynman-Kac solution, Monte Carlo simulations; comparison of the methods.
      • Classical Interest-Rate Models: the Vasicek model, term structure implications, constructing trees, the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model, and other models. Limitations of one factor models.
      • Multifactor Term Structure Models: affine and quadratic Gaussian models.
      • Credit Risk: incorporating the possibility of default into term structure models.
      • Arbitrage Free Interest-Rate Models: yield and volatility curves in the Vasicek model, risk-neutral dynamics of the forward rates, the Ho-Lee model, recombining binomial tree, the extended Vasicek model, the Black-Derman-Toy model, the Heath-Jarrow-Morton model, non-recombining tree. Forward-rate measures. Changes of numeraire. The Libor Market Model.
      • Calibrating Interest-Rate Models to Market Data: the forward curve, bond price volatility, implied volatility of interest-rate caps.


      Part II: The Econometrics of Interest-Rate Modeling

      • Nonparametric Density Estimation for Interest Rates: the Kernel method, histogram, Kernel estimator, bandwidth, practical implementation.
      • Nonparametric Pricing of Interest-Rate Derivatives: continuous-time models sampled discretely, nonparametric estimation of volatility, benefits of the nonparametric approach.
      • Testing Interest-Rate Models: how to decide whether a model fits the data, formulating the hypothesis, constraints, estimating the drift and diffusion with discrete data, density-matching, exploiting the information contained in the transitions of the process.
      • Practical Model-Building: how to model nonlinear mean reversion and volatility, and how to test the resulting model.
      • Testing whether Interest Rates are Markovian: the cost of dealing with non-Markovian dynamics in the HJM context; are interest rates continuous-time Markov processes?
      • Testing for the Presence of Jumps in Interest Rates
      • Maximum-Likelihood Estimation for Interest-Rate Models: a new method to estimate diffusions: a closed-form approach, derivative pricing applications; applications to multifactor term structure models and stochastic volatility models.


      Other suggested links:

      Geneva Executive Courses in Finance 2006 course program
      Professor Yacine Aït-Sahalia's home page
      Organization, Admission, Procedure & Fee
      Application Form (pdf format)

      For all other questions, please contact :

      Fabienne Garcelon or Olga Solari
      Program Managers
      Swiss Finance Institute
      Av. Blanc 49
      CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland
      T +41 22 731 95 55
      F +41 22 731 95 75
      [spam save email]
      http://www.SwissFinanceInstitute.ch

    9. WBS Training USA Fixed Income Derivatives Week: Inflation Linked Derivatives, Interest Rate/Hybrid Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, CDOs & CDO^2 Workshop Week, 15 - 19 May 2006, New York

      Day 1:

      Introducing Inflation-linked Securities and Derivatives: Introductory / Intermediate

      Presenters: David Murphy & Andrew Street

      Topics Covered:

      • Understanding Inflation
      • Inflation-Linked Securities: The Standard Bond Structure
      • Investors and the Demand for Inflation-Linked Products
      • Inflation-Linked Securities: Perspectives for Traders and Issuers
      • Building the Inflation Curve
      • Structuring Effective Inflation-Linked Products
      • Pricing and Trading Derivatives on Inflation


      Day 2:

      Latest Developments of Inflation-linked Derivatives

      Presenters:

      Gang Hu: Associate Director of U.S. Inflation Trading, Barclays Capital
      Lane P Hughston: Professor of Financial Mathematics, King's College
      Dariush Mirfendereski: Head of Inflation Linked Trading, UBS

      Topics Covered:

      • Models for real interest rates and inflation: New Directions
      • General theory of inflation dynamics
      • "Hidden variables" models for inflation
      • Practical Perspectives on Pricing, Trading, and Hedging Inflation-Indexed Derivatives - from the Dark Ages to the Present
      • The Road Ahead: what to watch out for in this fast developing market
      • A Users' Manual on Inflation Derivative Products
      • iStrips
      • Structured Products on the market
      • Potential structures that might be of interest to the market, and general view on the outlook of the inflation derivative market.


      Day 3:

      Latest Developments: Interest Rate Derivatives / Interest Rate Hybrid Products

      Presenters:

      Tariq Dennison: Vice President, Bear Sterns
      Lane P Hughston: Professor of Financial Mathematics, King's College
      Chris Hunter: Managing Director: BNP Paribas
      John Uglum: Executive Director: Morgan Stanley

      Topics Covered:

      • Overview of the General Theory of Interest Rate / Hybrid Models
      • Pricing and Hedging of Callable Exotic Swaps
      • The LIBOR market model and stochastic volatility extension
      • Solving the stochastic control problem using Monte Carlo
      • Practical implementation issues and variance reduction techniques
      • Complete overview of Interest Rate / Equity Hybrids
      • Correlation Smile and Hybrid Pricing


      Day 4:

      The Latest Developments: Credit Derivatives Presenters:

      Jon Gregory: Global Credit Derivatives: Barclays Capital
      Paul Glasserman: Professor of Risk Management, Columbia Graduate School of Business
      Marco Naldi: Lehman Brothers

      Topics Covered:

      • The Correlation Skew and Correlation Modelling
      • The Gaussian Copula Model and Beyond
      • The Correlation Skew and Base Correlations
      • Monte Carlo for Credit Risk and Credit Derivatives
      • Fast pricing of basket default swaps
      • Accelerating Monte Carlo by increasing default rates
      • Pricing Exotic Tranches / Relative value trading of liquid tranches


      Day 5:

      The Latest Developments: CDOs & CDO^2

      Presenters:

      Terry Benzschawel: Director of Qualitative Credit Modeling and Analytics, Citigroup
      David Li: Head of Quantitative Analytics Credit Derivatives, Barclays Capital
      Michael liang: Quantitative Analytics Credit Derivatives, Barclays Capital
      Maximo Silberberg: Vice President, Structured Credit, JP Morgan

      Topics Covered:

      • Overview of CDOs
      • CDOs: Credit Selection, Trade Construction, and Portfolio Optimization
      • CDO Equity as an Asset Class
      • CDOs in Portfolios of Traditional and Alternative Assets
      • Customizing CDO Tranche Trades
      • Credit Portfolio Correlation Skew Modelling
      • Alternative Bespoke CDO pricings
      • Market overview for synthetic CDO^2
      • CDO2 pricing: Price a CDO2 consistently with the pricing of the underlying CDOs
      • Construction of synthetic CDO^2
      • Further extensions of CDO^2 technology


      Fees: $1399:00 each day

      Discount Structure

      2 days $200 Discount
      3 days $300 Discount
      4 days $400 Discount
      5 days $600 Discount

      Contact:

      Neil Fowler
      T: +44(0) 1273 674400 F: +44(0) 1273 672333
      Weblink: http://www.wbstraining.com/?m=WS&p=courses/5daynymay2006.php
      Website: http://www.wbstraining.com
      Email: [spam save email]


    10. NMF2006 - International Conference on Numerical Methods for Finance, 7th-9th June 2006, Dublin, Ireland

      Location: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
      Website: http://www.numericalmethodsforfinance.org

      Aim:

      The aim of the conference is to attract leading researchers, both practitioners and academics, to discuss new and relevant numerical methods for the solution of practical problems in finance. The conference is focused on 6 topics of interest to practitioners. For each topic a distinguished invited speaker will survey the current problems of importance. In addition broad classes of relevant numerical methods will be surveyed by distinguished invited speakers. The main thrust of the conference will be the contributions, by both practitioners and academics, to the oral and poster sessions on numerical methods for solving the practical problems. Formal refereed proceedings will be published after the conference.

      Who should attend?:

      Academics and practitioners wishing to discuss their latest research results on numerical methods for solving practical problems in finance. Practitioners interested in learning about the latest numerical techniques for solving their problems.

      Scope:

      The practical topics are credit risk; exotic/hybrid options; risk management; portfolio selection; insurance/pensions and interest rate modelling. The broad classes of numerical methods are numerical methods for partial integro-differential equations and Monte Carlo methods.

      Invited Speakers:

      Carlo Acerbi (AbaxBank, Italy ); Andrew Cairns (Heriot-Watt University, UK); Peter Forsyth (University of Waterloo, Canada); Kay Giesecke (Stanford University, USA). At least 4 more to be confirmed.

      International Steering Committee:

      Elie Ayache (ITO33, Paris); Phelim Boyle (University of Waterloo, Canada); Rama Cont (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau); Paul Glasserman (Columbia University, New York); Sam Howison (University of Oxford); John Miller (INCA, Dublin, Ireland); Harald Niederreiter (National University of Singapore); Eckhard Platen (University of Technology Sydney); Wil Schilders (Philips, Eindhoven); Hans Schumacher (Tilburg University, Netherlands); Ruediger Seydel (University of Cologne, Germany); Ton Vorst (ABN-AMRO, Amsterdam); Paul Wilmott (Wilmott Associates, London); Lixin Wu (University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong); Local Organising Committee: John Appleby (Dublin City University); Nikolai Dokuchaev (University of Limerick); David Edelman (Smurfit Business School); Bernard Hanzon (University College Cork); Frank Monks (Nexgen Capital); Frank Oertel (University College Cork); Shane Whelan (University College Dublin)

      Sponsors:

      Industrial Development Authority, Dublin; Pioneer, Dublin; Depfa, Dublin

      How to submit a paper:

      You are invited to submit an abstract of your contributed paper for an oral or poster session. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 7th April 2006. Abstracts can only be submitted via the conferencemaker website http://gemini.econ.umd.edu/conference/NMF2006

      Further Information:

      To receive further information on the conference and registration, please contact [spam save email] or use the link on the conference website http://www.numericalmethodsforfinance.org

    11. Einführung in Monte Carlo-Methoden und C++ im Financial Engineering , 10th-14th July 2006, HfB Frankfurt

      Christoph Becker und Uwe Wystup

      HfB - Business School of Finance and Management

Kursumfang

5 x 8 Stunden Unterricht inkl. Übung.
10.-14. Juli 2006, täglich 9:00 - 12:15 Uhr und 13:45 - 18:45 Uhr

Inhalt

    • Kurze Einführung in C (Transfer ihrer Basic / Fortran / Pascal o.ä. - Programmierkenntnisse nach C)
    • Ausführliche Einführung in das objektorientierte Programmieren mit C++
    • Einführung in Templates und die STL
    • Grundlegende Monte Carlo - Prinzipien
    • weiterführende Monte Carlo - Techniken zur Berechnung von Greeks und zur Varianzreduktion, Diskretisierungsschemata
    • Praktische Aspekte in der Programmierung: Effiziente Implementation, Fehlerbehandlung, numerische Stabilität
    • Realistische Rahmenwerke zur Optionsbewertung, dabei Einsatz von Design Patterns
    • Erstellung von DLLs und Add-ins für Microsoft Excel
    l

Adressaten

Berufseinsteiger im Bereich Financial Engineering, Studenten im Studiengang "Quantitative Finance" o.ä.

Benötigte Vorkenntnisse

Gute Kenntnisse in einer beliebigen Programmiersprache, z.B. Pascal, Basic, Fortran etc

Mitzubringen

Ihr eigenes Notebook mit installiertem C++ Compiler. Im Kurs behandelt wird nur das im Financial Engineering sehr beliebte Microsoft Visual Studio. Visual Studio Express ist kostenlos erhältlich von http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/.

Teilnehmerzahl

maximal 20

Kosten

1500 EUR
500 EUR für Studierende der HfB

Anmeldungen

nimmt Frau Klemens (klemens@hfb.de) entgegen. Ein Anmeldeformular gibt es hier. Anmeldeschluss :1. Juli 2006

  • The Latest Developments: Interest Rate Modelling, 12 - 13 June 2006, Venice

    Fabio Mercurio & Riccardo Rebonato
    The Latest Developments: Interest Rate Modelling
    Monday / Tuesday 12th / 13th June 2006
    The Gritti Palace Hotel, Venice, Italy

    Course fee: £2399 (VAT Included)

    Course Trainers:

    Fabio Mercurio is the Head of Financial Models at Banca IMI. Fabio holds a BSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Padua and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance from the Tinbergen Institute of Rotterdam. Prior to joining Banca IMI in 1998, he was a Financial Modeller in the Risk Management Department of Cariplo Bank in Milan.

    His recent scientific interest mainly concerns the interest rate modelling for pricing and hedging derivatives, the pricing of hybrid products and the smile effect in implied volatility structures for the equity, FX and interest rate markets.

    Fabio has published several articles in journals such as Mathematical Finance, Applied Mathematical Finance, European Journal of Finance, Finance and Stochastics, International Journal of Theoretical & Applied Finance and Risk. Together with Damiano Brigo, he has published a book on "Interest Rate Models: Theory and Practice" in 2001, 2nd edition (June 2006)

    Riccardo Rebonato is Head of Group Market Risk for the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, and Head of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Quantitative Research Centre. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford University for the Mathematical Finance Diploma and MSc. He holds Doctorates in Nuclear Engineering and Science of Materials/Solid State Physics. He sits on the Board of Directors of ISDA and on the Board of Trustees of GARP.

    Prior to joining the Royal Bank of Scotland, he was Head of Complex Derivatives Trading Europe and Head of Derivatives Research at Barclays Capital (BZW), where he worked for nine years.

    Before that he was a Research Fellow in Physics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of three books, Modern Pricing of Interest-Rate Derivatives, Volatility and Correlation in Option Pricing and Interest-Rate Option Models. He has published several papers on finance in academic journals, and is on the editorial board of several journals. He is a regular speaker at conferences worldwide.

    Day 1:

    Riccardo Rebonato: The Latest Advancements of the LIBOR Market Model

    Section 1 - 9:00 - 10:30
    What do we need to price interest-rate derivatives?
    Why can the LMM provide the tool we need for this?

    Morning Break: 10:30 - 11:00

    Section 2 - 11:00 - 12:45
    The no-arbitrage drifts: a universal recipe for all products
    Volatility and correlation for the LMM (single currency and multi-currency)
    Calibrating to caplets and linking caplet and swaption volatilities

    Lunch: 12:45 - 14:00

    Section 3 - 14:00 - 15: 30

    Empirical evidence: implied volatility, swaption volatility, Principal Components of volatility changes
    The ingredients for the IR smile: displaced diffusion versus CEV - theoretical and practical issues

    Afternoon Break: 15:30 - 16:00

    Section 4: 16:00 - 17:30
    Further smile features: stochastic volatility and regime shift
    Questions from the delegates

    Day 2:

    Fabio Mercurio: New Advances in Market Models for Interest Rates

    Section 1: 09:00 - 10:30
    Pricing the smile: a LIBOR model with uncertain parameters
    Derivation of analytical formulas for caps and swaptions

    Morning Break: 10:30 - 11:00

    Section 2: 11:00 - 12:30
    Model's implications: forward volatilities and implied swaptions smile
    Examples of calibration

    Lunch: 12:30 - 13:30

    Section 3: 13:30 - 15:30
    A specific case allowing for an exact calibration to ATM volatilities
    Examples of calibration

    Afternoon Break: 15:30 - 16:00

    Section 4: 16:00 - 17:30
    The swaption smile quoted by market
    Calibration with the SABR functional form
    Introducing the CMS convexity adjustments
    A joint calibration to swaptions and CMS swap spreads

    All delegates will receive complimentary copies of the 2nd Editions:

    • Volatility and Correlation
      The Perfect Hedger and the Fox
      Riccardo Rebonato
    • Interest Rate Models: Theory and Practice
      by Damiano Brigo and Fabio Mercurio


    Contact:

    Neil Fowler
    T: +44(0) 1273 674400
    F: +44(0) 1273 672333
    Weblink: http://www.wbstraining.com/pdf/irm_venice_06-06.pdf
    Website: http://www.wbstraining.com
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  • Daniel Duffy's Advanced C++ for Financial Instrument Pricing, 26 - 29 June 2006, Frankfurt

    Course fee: 3.180,-- euro.
    Register online: Advanced C++ for Financial Instrument Pricing

    This four-day hands-on course applies C++ to the problem of financial instrument pricing. Both exact and approximate models will be discussed and then mapped to C++. The focus in this course is on options (in all their forms) and how C++ is used to implement them.

    This course is based on the book by Daniel Duffy "Financial Instrument Pricing using C++". Your trainer is Dr. Daniel J. Duffy.

    What do you learn?

    • Using C++ templates and generic programming
    • How to use C++ to program numerical methods in finance
    • Programming exact and approximate solutions to plain and exotic options
    • Using the famous design patterns in financial applications
    • Coupling C++ with Excel (for input and output)

    We provide the students with a lite version of Datasim's C++ toolkit for financial modelling of options and other derivative products.

    This course will be given in English.

    You will need to bring your own laptop.

    Course contents

    Part I: Foundations for Finance

    C++ Templates
    • What are templates?
    • What are advantages of templates?
    • Nested template classes
    • Aggregation and Association with templates
    • Full and partial specialization


    Applying Templates
    • Modelling option properties: Property pattern
    • Creating reusable utility classes
    • Data structures for binomial and trinomial trees
    • Classes for statistical computations


    Standard Libraries
    • An overview of the Standard Template Library (STL)
    • Sequential and associative containers in STL
    • Iterators and algorithms
    • Arrays, vectors and matrices


    Applications to Financial Instruments
    • Exact solutions for European and American options
    • Option sensitivities and their calculations
    • Calculating with barrier options
    • C++ code for other option types


    Part II: Applying C++ to Quantitative Finance

    Basics and Foundation Classes
    • Solution of linear equations
    • Approximation
    • Simulation


    C++ and Stochastic Differential Equations (SDE)
    • An introduction to SDE
    • Numerical methods for SDE
    • Mapping numerical methods to C++
    • Performance issues


    Partial Differential Equations (PDE) and their Approximation
    • Black-Scholes equation and its generalization
    • One-factor and multi-factor models
    • Numerical solution of PDE by numerical Algorithms
    • C++ utility classes
    • Creating a C++ application


    Part III: Architecture and Design Patterns

    Overview
    • What are design patterns?
    • Why use patterns in financial engineering?
    • Design patterns classification
    • Design patterns and software product quality


    Creational Patterns
    • Class-based and prototype-based object creation
    • Creating options and their properties
    • Creating unique objects
    • Complex product creation


    Structural Patterns
    • Composite pattern and nested objects
    • Filtering out implementation details with Bridge
    • Façade


    Behavioural Patterns
    • Extending functionality with Visitor
    • Using Visitor to create Excel interfaces
    • Flexible algorithms and Strategy
    • Change notification and Observer


    Prerequisites

    We assume that the student has some experience of C++. This is not a beginners course and we assume you know what constructors, destructors and operator overloading are in C++ and how memory management works.

    Who should attend?

    IT personnel who wish to learn to use C++ for financial instrument pricing. The course is also for financial engineers ('quants') who wish to map their financial models to C++.

    It is also possible to organize this course at your company premises (the in-company option). If you have any question, please contact our Datasim office.

  • Bachelier Finance Society 2006 Fourth World Congress, August 17-20 2006, Tokyo

    Notice: Submission Deadline Extended to 30th January from 16th January

    Due to internet server maintenance at Hitotsubashi University, BFS2006 website and e-mail server will be out of service from January 13th, 10pm to January 16th, 10am. Considering the possibility of any confusion possibly caused by the Internet server maintenance, BFS2006 4th World Congress Organizer will extend the deadline for the application submission from January 16 to January 30, 2006.

    General Information of Bachelier Finance Society 2006 4th World Congress

    Date: August 17(Thursday) - August 20(Sunday), 2006
    Venue: National Center of Sciences (Hitotsubashi University, ICS)
    [Address] 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8439, Japan

    Plenary Speakers:
    • Peter Carr
    • Freddy Delbaen
    • Paul Glasserman
    • Monique Jeanblanc
    • Arturo Kohatsu-Higa
    • José A. Scheinkman
    • H. Mete Soner
    • Thaleia Zariphopoulou


    Special Speaker: Shinzo Watanabe

    Scientific/Organizing Committee:

    • René Carmona
    • Hélyette Geman
    • Shigeo Kusuoka
    • Marek Rutkowski
    • Steven E. Shreve
    • Nizar Touzi


    Local Organizing Committee:

    • Takeaki Kariya
    • Yoshio Miyahara
    • Katsushige Sawaki
    • Takahiko Fujita
    • Jiro Akahori


    Conference Organizer: Ryozo Miura (Hitotsubashi University, ICS)

    Deadline for Submission of Contributed Papers: January 16th, 2006

    Submission of Contributed Papers

    We invite both academics and practitioners to submit your contributed paper on all topics of mathematical finance for the Bachelier Finance Society 2006 Fourth World Congress (BFS2006 4th World Congress). Authors who wish to present a paper at the BFS2006 4th World Congress are requested to submit their application with the extended abstract to the conference organizer by January 30, 2006.

    For further information with regard to the submission procedure please refer to:
    http://bachelier.ics.hit-u.ac.jp/submission.html

    For Further Information

    Please contact BFS2006 4th World Congress Administration at [spam save email]

    BFS2006 4th World Congress Website: http://bachelier.ics.hit-u.ac.jp/index.html

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