Event

Event: Berkeley Financial Engineering Series 2008, Center for Executive Development, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Date: January 2008
Location:
The Center for Executive Development, Haas School of Business, Berkeley, CA

The International Association of Financial Engineers is pleased to endorse

The Berkeley Financial Engineering Series 2008

Building & Pricing of Derivatives, and the Bridge to Risk Management
January 14th-18th, 2008
Fee $6000

Fixed Income Securities: Bonds, ABS and Risk Management
January 21st-25th, 2008
Fee $6000

Optional one Saturday Session: Hedge Funds and Alternative Investments
January 19th, 2008
Fee $ 1,000

Complete Program with Workshop
Fee $11,000 (savings of $2000)

Program Description

The Berkeley Finance Series is a program designed for investment professionals looking to enhance both their theoretical knowledge and modeling skills for pricing, hedging, trading and portfolio management decisions. The program curriculum and case studies emphasize the practical applications of the topics covered. The Series is taught by the same faculty who teach in the UC Berkeley's Masters in Financial Engineering Program (MFE)- ranked Number 1 in the world.

Building & Pricing of Derivatives, and the Bridge to Risk Management

January 14 - 18, 2008

This week is full of tools and applications for you to uncover the building blocks of derivative securities. You will learn how to engineer and price exotic options, such as barrier options, interest rate derivatives, energy and commodity options, to name just a few.

Fixed Income Securities: Bonds, ABS and Risk Management

January 21 - 25, 2008

Our world-class faculty will take you to the boundary of current knowledge on the building and pricing of fixed income securities and term structure modeling. You will learn to build structured fixed income products as well as evaluate the risk of asset-backed securities using practical case studies and problem solving exercises.

Optional Saturday Workshop: Hedge Funds and Alternative Investments

January 19, 2008

This one-day workshop will benefit investment professionals who want to gain a thorough understanding of hedge funds and alternative investments to better assess and manage their investment strategy.

Faculty Director

Richard Stanton is an Associate Professor in Finance at the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley. His research and teaching interests include mortgage markets, term structure modeling, mutual funds, and the valuation and hedging of derivative securities. Before his graduate work, Professor Stanton worked in consulting at Bain and Company, advising clients on acquisition valuation and the impact on their business of financial market deregulation. His recent consulting work includes implementing fixed-income derivatives pricing algorithms for one of the top financial software firms in the U.S., developing lease valuation algorithms for a large commercial property management.

For further information and registration please call Bart Decker at (510) 642-9167 or e-mail decker@haas.berkeley.edu at the Center for Executive Development.

Space is limited.

Call 877-EXEC-DEV

Email execdev@haas.berkeley.edu

Visit http://execdev.haas.berkeley.edu

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