GUTMANN CENTER FOR PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
at the University of Vienna - http//:www.gutmann-center.at
invites to the following
PUBLIC LECTURE:
(Apologies for any cross-listings!):
Date: February 21st, 2006 - 4.00 p.m.
Location: Bank Gutmann AG, Schwarzenbergplatz 16, 1010 Wien
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Vasant NAIK, Lehman Brothers in London
Title: QUANTITATIVE INVESTING IN GLOBAL INTEREST RATE AND CURRENCY MARKETS
The talk will outline our ongoing research into applications of
quantitative approaches for investment decision making in global
fixed-income and currency markets.
We will consider tactical market-timing type decisions as well as
strategies aimed at exploiting risk premia over a long horizon.
About Vasant Naik:
Vasant Naik is the head of the Quantitative Market Strategies Group of
the Fixed Income Research division of Lehman Brothers in London. He has
been with Lehman Brothers for 7 years. He is responsible for a team that
is engaged in building quantitative models useful for investment
decision-making in global fixed income markets. As such, the group
conducts research projects characterizing risk and return in global
bond, currency and volatility markets. Vasant’s group also works on
questions of optimal portfolio construction, portfolio risk modeling and
investment process design. This research is made available to clients of
Lehman Brothers which include the largest institutional investors around
the globe. Quantitative research is one of the dimensions along which
Lehman Brothers excels in the financial industry.
Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Vasant was a faculty member at the
University of British Columbia in Canada for 10 years. In his academic
research, he has developed models of equity returns, the yield curve,
derivatives valuation and hedging and real options. Also, he taught
under-graduate, graduate and doctoral students in different areas of
Finance. Vasant graduated from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
in 1983 and from University of California, Berkeley in 1988 with a
doctorate in finance.
Please REGISTER:
Mail: gutmann.bwl(a)univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-38186 - Fax: +43-1-4277-38074
Contact and further information:
Gutmann Center for Portfolio Management
University of Vienna - Mag. Dorothea GRIMM
Bruenner Str. 72 - 1210 Wien (Austria)
phone: +43-1-4277-38186 - fax: +43-1-4277-38074
mail: gutmann.bwl(a)univie.ac.at - web: www.gutmann-center.at
There are two VGSF research seminars in January (and an important
announcement regarding Lubos Pastor's seminar):
(A) on Friday, Jan. 20th, Engelbert Dockner is going to present the paper
"Leaders, Followers, and Risk Dynamics in Industry Equilibrium"; this
seminar is going to take place in lecture room 3 at the standard time.
(B) on Friday, Jan. 27th, Lubos Pastor from the University of Chicago is
going to present his paper "Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices". The
seminar takes place in lecture room 11 BUT THE TIME HAS CHANGED: the seminar
is going to be from 11:00 to 12:30!!!
By the way, Lubos is going to be in Vienna for the entire week. If you want
to meet him, please let me know.
See you at the seminar,
Michael Halling