Financial Crisis Webinar Series
Hear from the experts: How research into past crises can help us navigate the current market conditions
Tuesday 7 th April | 11 AM - 12 PM EDT
The unprecedented disruptions caused by Coronavirus, resulting in a sharp drop in market activity, clearly constitutes a crisis.
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Hosted by: MARK ADELSON Head of Content at Portfolio Management Research |
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JOHN MULVEY John M. Mulvey is a Professor in the Operations Research and Financial Engineering Department and a founding member of the Bendheim Centre for Finance at Princeton University. His specialty is financial optimisation and advanced portfolio theory. For over thirty-five years, he has implemented asset-liability management systems for numerous organisations, including PIMCO, Towers Perrin/Tillinghast, AXA, Siemens, Munich Re-Insurance, and Renaissance Re-Insurance. His current research addresses regime identification and factor approaches for longterm investors, including family offices, and pension plans, with an emphasis on optimising performance and protecting investor wealth (and surplus wealth). He has published over 150 articles and edited 5 books. He is developing a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) with Professor Martellini -- “Python Machine Learning for Investment Management,” and is a senior advisor for Alibaba (Ant Financial) and First Republic Bank.
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DANIEL VILLALON Dan Villalon is a Managing Director and Global Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group at AQR Capital Management. In this role, he oversees the team responsible for advising clients on portfolio challenges and investment strategies, developing client custom analyses, and writing white papers and other research. Dan is also a member of AQR’s multi-fund investment committee, which oversees the design, construction and implementation of customized, multi-asset, multi-strategy portfolios. Additionally, Dan co-writes, produces and hosts AQR’s podcast, The Curious Investor. Prior to AQR, he an investment analyst in the private bank at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Dan earned a B.A. in physics from Pomona College and an M.B.A. with a concentration in analytical finance from the University of Chicago Booth’s School of Business.
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CAMPBELL HARVEY Campbell R. Harvey is Professor of Finance at Duke University and Investment Strategy Advisor to Man Group, PLC. Professor Harvey served as the 2016 President of the American Finance Association. His research focuses on investment and risk management. The Best of Strategies for the Worst of Times: Can Portfolios Be Crisis Proofed? |