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News Analytics Applied to Trading, Fund Management and Risk Control

- December 2011, Birkbeck College, London


Thanks to sponsorship from Thomson Reuters & RavenPack, we are pleased to announce that we are offering 5 places at more than 50% discount on a first come first served basis. If you or your colleagues would like to take advantage at this special discount, please let me know right away as there are only 5 places available at this special price of £495 + VAT. This covers attendance for both days and includes lunch and refreshments.

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Scope and Purpose

Presenters: Gautam Mitra, Director, OptiRisk Systems and CARISMA (The Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Applications, Brunel University); Peter Hafez & Malcolm Bain, RavenPack; Cristiano Arbex Valle, Keming Yu & Xiang Yu, CARISMA/ OptiRisk Systems; Giles-Arnaud Nzouankeu Nana, Fraunhofer ITWM; Jacob Sisk & Richard Brown, Thomson Reuters; Ashok Banerjee, Professor and Faculty-in-Charge, the Financial Research and Trading Laboratory, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; Stan Uryasev, American Optimal Advisors and University of Florida.

News provides information about an event and, as such, may be considered to be an event in itself—news moves the market. The dynamics of the flow of information and market uncertainty impacts security price formation, price discovery, market participant behaviour such as price (over) reaction, price volatility and market stability. Traders and other market participants digest news rapidly and formulate their response based on this information.

This workshop shows participants how to understand and apply News Analytics to their own particular situation and explains the applied, analytical and quantitative techniques that are the topic of current research in this fast-emerging field. 

The workshop is presented by researchers at CARISMA and OptiRisk, and their industrial sponsors Thomson Reuters and RavenPack.  These researchers have carried out some of the leading-edge Investigation on the topic of News Analytics applied to trading, fund management and risk control.  The CARISMA/OptiRisk team has recently compiled the Handbook of News Analytics in Finance  and also developed the News Analytics Toolkit.  The toolkit is also available to participants for a period of six months.  Participants will have the opportunity to try out the tool under expert guidance.
Benefits of Attending
  • Interact with leading researchers to discuss and understand how to apply News Analytics to a chosen problem of financial analysis
  • Learn about the underlying mathematical   models and have the opportunity to try out News Analytics data.
  • Receive a copy of the News Analytics Handbook.
  • Meet your peers in the academic and professional community.
 Programme
Fees

Industry Rate: 2 days £1025 + VAT

Thanks to our sponsors, there are a limited number of generous bursaries available for academics and research students so they can attend at reduced rates.



For more information regarding bursaries, please contact us on + 44 (0) 1895 819 488 or email info@optirisk-systems.com

Discounted rates for group bookings can be also arranged on request.

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