2006:2007

Summer Term

Wed 2 May

Does Valuation Method Choice Affect Target Price Accuracy?
Martin Walker
Manchester Business School

Wed 16 May

Mutual Fund Performance: Skill or Luck?
Dirk Nitzsche
Cass Business School
City University London 

Wed 23 May

Intraday Portfolio Return Autocorrelation Dynamics
Ryan Davies
Babson College
Massachussetts 

Wed 6 June

DOUBLE SEMINAR 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Option Pricing with Non-Gaussian Distributions
Ser-Huang Poon
Manchester Business School

and

The Effects of Structural Breaks and Long Memory on Currency Hedging
Donald Lien
College of Business
University of Texas
San Antonio

Spring Term

Wed 31 January

Searching for a Metric for Financial Stability
Dimitrios Tsomocos
Said Business School
The University of Oxford

Wed 7 February

Optimal Hedge Ratio Estimation and Effectiveness using ARCD
Raphael Markellos
Athens University of Economics and Business

Wed 14 February

The Relative Merits of Investable Hedge Fund Indices and of Funds of Hedge Funds in Optimal Passive Portfolios
Anthony White
ICMA Centre

Wed 21 February

Global Portfolio Optimization Revisited: A Least Discrimination Approach
Jacques Pezier
ICMA Centre

Thu 1 March

Domestic versus Foreign Investors' Transaction Execution Ability in the United States: An Analysis by Country of Origin
Jerry Parwada
The University of New South Wales, Sydney

Wed 7 March

Pound around the clock. A multivariate news-based model for the global trading day.
Stefano Di Colli
University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Teramo and ICMA Centre 

Wed 14 March

Issues of Aggregation Over Time of Conditional Heteroscedastic Volatility Models: What Kind of Diffusion Do We Recover?
Amine Trifi
University of Paris 1 Sorbonne

Autumn Term

Wed 18 October

Regular Variation and Smile Asymptotics
Peter K Friz
Cambridge University and King's College

Wed 25 October

Beta is Alive, Well and Healthy
Soosung Hwang
Cass Business School

Thu 2 November

Sign and Phase Asymmetry: Economic Activity and the Stock Market
Professor Olan Henry
University of Melbourne

Wed 8 November

Random Portfolios and Their Use
Patrick Burns
Burns Statistics

Wed 15 November

Volatility Indices: Properties and Applications
Professor Carol Alexander and Stamatis Leontsinis
ICMA Centre

Wed 22 November

Optimal Hedging and Parameter Uncertaintly
Michael Monoyios
Mathematical Institute , University of Oxford

Wed 29 November

European Asset Backed Securities - Market Overview
Khadem Varqa
Lehman Brothers

Wed 6 December

Global Custody and the Evaluation of Securities Infrastructure Risk - to be confirmed
Don G Linford
JPMorgan Chase & Co. , Worldwide Securities Services