Author Archives: Faye Fleetwood

KBS trip to Bloomberg

Kent Business School has organised a trip to Bloomberg for the new cohort of students. Thus, students from MSc Financial Markets will visit Bloomberg on Nov 8th and students from MSc Financial Services in Banking will visit Bloomberg on Nov … Continue reading

Posted in news | Leave a comment

Plenary talk on the future of bank risk management: strategic ALM

On Friday 25th October Dr. Moorad Choudhry, RBS treasurer, will give a plenary talk on THE FUTURE OF BANK RISK MANAGEMENT: STRATEGIC ALM in Kent Business School. Students from MSc Financial Markets and MSc Financial Services in Banking will have … Continue reading

Posted in news | Leave a comment

Paper published in the Journal of Portfolio Management

Prof. Radu Tunaru and Dr. Silvia Stanescu have just published a paper in the Journal of Portfolio Management. The paper is entitled “Commercial Real-Estate Risk Management with Derivatives” and it has been co-authored by Prof. Frank Fabozzi from EDHEC and … Continue reading

Posted in research | Leave a comment

Richard Hong from Bloomberg talk

On 3rd October Richard Hong from Bloomberg gave a plenary talk to students from MSc Financial Markets and MSc Financial Services in Banking. Students found the talk very interesting given that their curriculum includes real-world applications using data from Bloomberg. … Continue reading

Posted in news | Leave a comment

SIRE Conference on “Finance and Commodities” to be held at Parliament Hall, University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Dr Huamao Wang from School of Mathematics will present a working paper “Momentum and Reversion or Uncertainty in Dynamic Asset Allocation” at the conference “Finance and Commodities” at The University of St. Andrews between the 12th and 14th July 2013. … Continue reading

Posted in news | Leave a comment

Bloomberg training session

Students on the MSc in Finance, Investment and Risk programme took part in a session in the School of Mathematics’ Finance Lab to explore further the functionality and analytics offered by Bloomberg platform. The session led by Bloomberg analysis and … Continue reading

Posted in news | Leave a comment

Handbook Of Research Methods And Applications In Empirical Finance

Professor Radu Tunaru and Dr. Silvia Stanescu contributed a chapter in the Handbook of Research Methods And Applications in Empirical Finance. This impressive Handbook presents the quantitative techniques that are commonly employed in empirical finance research together with real-world, state-of-the-art … Continue reading

Posted in research | Leave a comment

Finance PhD students gain entry to prestigious summer school

Catalin Cantia and Tommaso Paletta, PhD students in Finance in their second year working under the supervision of Prof. Radu Tunaru, Dr. Silvia Stanescu and Dr. Nikolaos Voukelatos , have been accepted to the Sixth European Summer School in Financial … Continue reading

Posted in research | Leave a comment

Professor of Finance appointed a Subject Matter Expert

Kent Business School’s Professor Radu Tunaru has been appointed a Subject Matter Expert in one of the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA) Advisory Groups. He has been approved to serve on the Quantitative (Quantitative tools, Quantitative risk modeling, Monte … Continue reading

Posted in news | Leave a comment

International conference on Banks, Financial Markets and Institutions in Europe

An international conference on Banks, Financial Markets and Institutions in Europe was held at the University of Southampton, UK, in association with the Journal of International Money. Dr Antonis Alexandridis presented a paper “Global Financial Crisis and Multi-scale Systematic Risk: … Continue reading

Posted in news | Leave a comment