Portfolio Construction

Due to unforseen circumstances, we have had to cancel this event.

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Course Highlights:

  • Utilisation of risk budgeting in asset allocation decision and liability management
  • How to capture the factors driving major asset classes to efficiently build portfolios
  • Manage your tail risk
  • Implementation of downside risk measures
  • Solutions on how to create a balanced portfolio
  • Developments in portfolio optimisation techniques

Course dates & venues

NEW YORK 26 & 27 April 2010

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LONDON 29 & 30 April 2010

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Course tutors

LONDON

Daan Potjer
Managing Partner and Fund Manager, AETHRA ASSET MANAGEMENT

Pierre Sarrau
Managing Director, Risk and Quantitative Analysis, BLACKROCK

Professor Michael Dempster
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE and MD, CAMBRIDGE SYSTEMS ASSOCIATES LIMITED

Marc Gross
Managing Director, DARKSTAR CAPITAL LIMITED
Head of Risk Management, EURIZON CAPITAL SGR

Rishi Thapar
Senior Quantitative Analyst, INTERNATIONAL ASSET MANAGEMENT

Malcolm Kemp
Managing Director, NEMATRIAN

David King
Head of Multi Asset Quantitative Research, SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

NEW YORK

Colm O'Cinneide
Senior Quantitative Researcher, DEUTSCHE ASSET MANAGEMENT

Elliot Noma
President, GARRET ASSET MANAGEMENT

Kevin Blocker
Quantitative Strategist, HORIZON INVESTMENTS LLC

Greg Van Inwegen
Managing Director, Chief Investment Risk Officer, IVY ASSET MANAGEMENT

Lior Menzly
Director of Quantitative Research, NOMURA ASSET MANAGEMENT

Aleksey Leksanov
Portfolio Manager and Director of Quantitative Development

Douglas Martin
Director of Computational Finance Program, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Learning Outcomes

  • Hedging aagainst tail risk
  • Minimising downside risk
  • Evaluating the adequacy of current stress tests
  • Comparing key asset allocation techniques
  • Defining and measuring risk budgeting success
  • Examining the effect of volatility on modelling risk and return
  • Assessing time horizons within life cycle investments