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Jamshidian in 1984

Farshid Jamshidian is a finance researcher, academic and practitioner. His experience covers both fixed-income and equity research and trading. Dr. Jamshidian has made important contributions to the theory of derivatives pricing, and has published extensively, especially on interest rate modelling, [1] [2] amongst other contributions, developing the use of the forward measure, and " Jamshidian's trick", widely applied in the pricing of bond options.

He is professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Twente, and is at NIBC Bank. He is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Fixed Income. [3] Previously he was managing director of NetAnalytic, a risk management products and services company he founded in 1999; managing director of New Products and Equity Derivatives at Sakura Global Capital; executive director of Technical Trading at Fuji International Finance; and head of quantitative fixed-income research at Merrill Lynch. As an academic, he was an associate editor of Finance and Stochastics and The Journal of Computational Finance and served as a faculty member in the mathematics departments at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley. [2]

He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University (1980) [4] and an MSc in computer science from Stanford University. [5]

References

  1. ^ "The MathFinance Newsletter #20". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-12-21.
  2. ^ a b "NetAnalytic Founder Joins J.P. Morgan Derivatives Spin-Off - Wall Street & Technology". Wallstreetandtech.com. Archived from the original on 12 May 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  3. ^ [1] [ dead link]
  4. ^ Farshid Jamshidian at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ "Masters Alumni | Stanford Computer Science". Archived from the original on 2011-12-05. Retrieved 2011-12-21.

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