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Finance and Risk Engineering

FRE in the Press

Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Professor Charles S Tapiero
Professor Philip Z Maymin
Professor Barry S Blecherman
Professor Roy Freedman
Professor Andrew Kalotay
Professor Anne Zissu
Professor Lucas Bernard

 

Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Professor Charles S Tapiero

  • 2010-10-26, NYU-Poly FRE LIVE CHAT -- TUES 10/26 @ 10am, Quant Network [link]
  • 2010-10-09, "Branding Financial Engineering: Are We Engineer or Quant?", Quant Network [link]
  • "Even if banks were to adopt them, adhering to the Group of 30's proposals would only partly mitigate the 'effects of moral hazard risks in financial markets,' says Charles S Tapiero" [US Banker]
  • Financial Engineering at NYU-POLY, Meeting of all Mathematical and Financial Engineering Programs in the US, Subsequently asked to co-prepare for the association and the IAFE a "White Paper" on the branding of Financial Engineering
  • 2010-04-19, Invited as Speaker on "The Future of Risk and Financial Management," Conference for the Abbual conference of the Cass-Capco Institute Paper Series on Risk, Cass Business School, City University London (also Journal of Financial Transformation)
  • 2010-01-27 - 2010-01-30, Invited as Keynote Speaker to the Colloquium of the Transport Ministers of Africa in Marrakech.  Theme is Valuation of Air Traffic Infrastructure And Regional Development
  • The "The Risk Externalities of Too Big to Fail" paper by Sang-Hoon Lee and Nassim Nicholas Taleb was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for ERN: Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk & Uncertainty (Topic), ERN: Other IO: Theory (Topic) and New Institutional Economics, ERN: Speculation in Economic Markets (Topic), ERN: Uncertainty & Risk Modeling (Topic), Microeconomics: Decision-Making under Risk & Uncertainty, Microeconomics: Search; Learning; Information Costs & Specific Knowledge; Expectation & Speculation

Professor Philip Z Maymin

  • 2010-04-18, TEDxNSIT, “The Nature of Genius, Trading, and Hindsight” [link]
  • 2009-11-17, Quoted: USA Today, "Does the stockmarket listen to the music or does it move to a different beat?" by Matt Krantz.
    SmartMoney, WNYC, Guardian, BBC, Tages-Anzeiger, NPR's All things Considered, NPR's Here and Now, Newsweek Poland, Financial Times Deutschland, Studio 360, CNBC, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Sirius/XM Radio
  • "How to Protect Investments From Cataclysmic 'Fat Tails'" by Gregg S. Fisher and Philip Z Maymin [link]
  • "Flop Culture. How Music, Skirts, and the Weather Move Markets," by Philip Z Maymin,  New York Post [link]
  • "Wondering when it will be safe to open your 401(k) statement again? Maybe you should check the pop charts. That's the theory of Philip Z Maymin", Boston Globe [link]

Professor Barry S Blecherman

  • NYU-Poly Annual Service awards had recognized Barry S Blecherman for dedicated Employee Service

Professor Roy Freedman

  • 20090921, Katherin Heires, "Trading on the News: Turning buzz Into Numbers." Securities Industry News [link]
  • 20090628, Cheryl Buchta, "New tools give edge to traders who embrace them."  Platts Energy Trader [link]

Professor Andrew Kalotay

  • 2010-01-26, "BondDesk Selects Kalotay Suite of Market Standard Fixed Income Analytics" by Business Wire
  • 2009-12-02, Talk at the Fixed Income Analysts Society, "The Municipal Bond Market: Challenges and the Way Forward" [link]
  • "With Estate Puts, Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder" at Private Wealth Management
  • Daily newspaper by Public Finance, "The Bond Buyer, daily newspaper of public finance Build America Bonds: Seeking the Missing Option"
  • 20091202, Talk on municipal bonds at the Fixed Income Analysts Society [link]
  • Daily newspaper by Public Finance, "Ratcheting the Goose That Lays Golden Eggs" by Dan Seymour
  • 20090618, Daily newspaper by Public Finance, "The Not-Quite-Science of Refinancing", Bond Buyer by Dan Seymour

Professor Anne Zissu

  • 2010-01-30, Quoted by Phyllis Korkki, "Back to School, as an Adjunct",  New York Times
  • 2009-09, The Financial Services Industry Post Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Conference in New York, "Can ARMs' Mortgage Servicing Portfolios be Delta Hedged under Gamma Constraints", with Carlos Ortiz and Charles A. Stone

Professor Lucas Bernard

  • July 2011, Willi Semmlera and Lucas Bernard, Boom–bust cycles: Leveraging, complex securities, and asset prices, ScienceDirect [Link]