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Company Profiles
Insightful Corporation, the makers of S-PLUS®, Insightful Miner™ and the Dynamic Reporting Suite, understands that the keys to successful and timely data analysis are flexibility in modeling, ease in applying those models, the reliability of your results and the effective validation and communication of those results. Our stand out graphics, open architecture, rigorous statistical solutions and expert professional services are a few of the reasons 35 of the 50 largest financial services firms, and 8 of the world's top 10 banking companies, turn to Insightful for their predictive analytics solutions. Insightful enables you to deliver The Knowledge to Act™ to the right person on demand.
For more information please visit us at www.insightful.com, email info@insightful.com or call 800.569.0123.
The Master’s in Financial Engineering Program provides students with a one-year graduate degree from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Instruction is led by world-renowned faculty from Haas, UCLA’s Anderson School, UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, and UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management. Whether you are from an investment bank, commercial bank, insurance, money management, treasury department, diversified financial services company, or a private equity/venture capital firm, we are confident you will be impressed by the MFE students from the Haas School of Business.
Our graduates are ready to help you immediately in the areas of valuation, pricing, hedging, trading, risk management, project evaluation and portfolio management decisions. In addition to the MFE degree, our students bring a variety of significant business experience to your firm. If you would like to recruit our students or alumni, please call Linda Kreitzman, PhD at 510-643-4329 or email at lindak@haas. berkeley.edu. www.haas.berkeley.edu
NumeriX is the recognized independent leader in pricing and risk analytics for fixed income, credit, foreign exchange, hybrids, cross currency, inflation rate and equity derivatives. NumeriX has a financial engineering and quantitative team composed largely of Ph.D.’s on the same scale as the very largest of financial institutions. More than 200 clients across 25 countries rely on NumeriX for speed and accuracy in valuing their structured products and derivatives. Trading and risk platform vendors leverage NumeriX analytics to gain a time-to-market advantage by embedding the power of NumeriX into their systems. Founded in 1996, the company is privately held with offices in New York, Chicago, Santa Fe, Toronto, London, Paris, Singapore and Tokyo. For more information visit: www.numerix.com.
IAFEThe IAFE is the not-for-profit, professional society dedicated to fostering the profession of quantitative finance by providing platforms to discuss cutting-edge and pivotal issues in the field. Founded in 1992, the IAFE is composed of individual academics and practitioners from banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, pension funds, asset managers, technology firms, regulators, accounting, consulting and law firms, and universities across the globe. Through frank discussions of current policy issues, sponsoring programs to educate the financial community and recognizing the outstanding achievements in the field, the IAFE acts as a beacon for the development of quantitative finance. Throughout its history, the IAFE´s pre-eminent leadership has positioned us to respond with savvy to the evolving needs of the financial engineering community. The IAFE´s programs – from our area – specific committees to our monthly panel discussions to the Financial Engineer of the Year Award – are designed to provide our membership with uniquely valuable activities to enhance their work in the field and opportunities to network and socialize with their colleagues.
Robert Walters is a leading global recruitment consultancy, specialising in placing high calibre professionals into permanent, contract and temporary positions at all management levels. The Group specialises in the accounting, finance, banking, IT, management consultancy, legal, sales and marketing, human resources, supply chain and logistics and support fields. Robert Walters’ client base ranges across both multi-national corporations and SMEs and covers all market sectors.
Established in 1985, Robert Walters has built a global presence with 27 offices spanning five continents and employs over 1100 staff worldwide.
ClariFI™, a Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ business, provides software and services focused exclusively on helping quantitative portfolio managers and researchers decrease the time it takes to research, test, and put into production their alpha generating strategies. ClariFI counts four of the top five largest investment managers in the world, hedge funds of all sizes, and proprietary trading desks at leading brokerage firms and banks as its clients. ClariFI’s clients experience reduced operational risk, decreased time-to-market for their strategies, and a significant competitive advantage.
Additional information about ClariFI can be found at www.clarifi.com
The financial world runs on Sybase. We offer highly secure, real-time, high-availability, integrated financial solutions that will help increase your organization’s operational efficiency, customer service, business resiliency and ROI. We work with more than 1,700 of the world’s largest financial institutions, while our technology powers 90 percent of the world’s securities firms and 60 percent of its banks. Our capital markets solutions for risk analytics, business continuance and prime brokerage reporting enable investment managers to harness the power of real time market data with stores of trend data while ensuring zero data loss and continuous trade processing in the event of a disaster or outage.
