A top panel of speakers, including academics, investment bankers and insurance professionals, have been assembled to discuss mathematical applications for financial services, including international banking, insurance and reinsurance.
The October 20-22 conference is being sponsored by The Bermuda College, in collaboration with the Bermuda international business community, and is being presented by Executive Choice Ltd.
Advanced conference material advises that expert presentations are aimed at general audiences, including non-mathematicians, and is suited to practitioners, managers or CEO's seeking an accessible survey of the use of mathematical models in finance and insurance.
General topics include: risk assessment; portfolio analysis and optimization; alternative risk transfer; asset/liability management; asset and securities pricing; risk management; numerical methods in finance; arbitrage theory; market structure models; and, knowledge in engineering.
Principal speakers include Robert A. Jarrow of Cornell University, Paul Wilmot of Oxford University, Steve Ross of MIT, John Hull of the University of Toronto, Emanuel Derman of Goldman Sachs & Co., Jens Nonnenmacher of Dresdner Bank, Prakash Shimpi of Swiss Re New Markets, Hans Buhlmann of ETH Zurich and David C. Heath of Carnegie Mellon University.
Others include: John Burville of Bermuda based ACE Ltd.; David Ezekiel of International Advisory Services; Svend-Holger Friis from KPMG; and Ronald Layard-Liesching of XL Capital-owned Pareto Partners.
Complete information is available at http://bermudacommerce.com/math.html
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