The Thalesians Quant Finance London Seminars: Prof. Svetlozar (Zari) T. Rachev — Market Crashes and Modeling Volatile Markets

Starts: Wednesday December 02, 2009 at 7:30pm
Ends: Wednesday December 02, 2009 at 8:30pm
Event Type: Training/Seminar
Location: Upstairs at City Pride
15 Westferry Road, Canary Wharf
London, GREATER LONDON E14 8JH GB
Price: 15 GBP
Website: http://www.meetup.com/thalesians/calendar/11622834/
Industry: financial services
Keywords: Volatility, Heavy Tails, Arma Garch, Copula, Factor Models, Forecasting, Tail Risk, Performance Measures, Portfolio Optimization, Econometrics
Intended For: quants, traders, strategists, portfolio managers, academics
Organization: The Thalesians

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ABSTRACT

We discuss:

* econometric models for volatile markets in large dimension, exhibiting volatility clustering and heavy-tails — ARMA-GARCH models with stable and tempered stable innovations;
* copula dependencies and factor models;
* forecasting market downturns;
* tail risk and performance measures;
* large scale portfolio optimization.

This is a joint work with my co-authors Aaron Kim, Stoyan Stoyanov, Boryana Racheva-Iotova, Michele-Leonardo Bianchi and Frank Fabozzi.

SPEAKER

Zari Rachev is a co-founder and President of BRAVO Risk Management Group — originator of the Cognity methodology, which was acquired by FinAnalytica where he serves as Chief Scientist. Rachev holds Chair-Professorship in Statistics, Econometrics and Mathematical Finance at University of Karlsruhe, and is the author of 12 books and over 300 published articles on finance, econometrics, statistics and actuarial science. At University of California at Santa Barbara, he founded the Ph.D.program in mathematical and empirical finance. Rachev holds PhD (1979) and Doctor of Science (1986) degrees from Moscow University and Russian Academy of Sciences. Rachev's scientific work lies at the core of Cognity's newer and more accurate methodologies in risk management and portfolio analysis.