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Quantopian, a start-up from Boston, wants to help ambitious traders disprove what many people have accepted for quite a while now – that while an individuals may get lucky from time to time, they cannot beat the market over a long period of time.

The company provides a service that allows individual traders to write their own trading algorithms and use them however they like. In this way, more individual traders could get involved in algorithmic trading without the help of a larger entity.

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A common theme emerged on the first day at the Global Derivatives Trading and Risk Management Conference. CVA, DVA and FVA (but also a number of other components) have found their way into pricing and valuation models of financial institutions after the financial crisis of 2008.

After a macro-economic assessment by David Nowakowski of Roubini Global Econmics, which drew a somewhat grim picture with especially China being in slow-down, famed John Hull took up the stage to speak about the implicati

When listening to the presenters on the “Portfolio Optimisation & Quantitative Investment Summit” at the Global Derivatives Trading and Risk Management event in Amsterdam one could draw such a conclusion.

Another is: “Do not worry!”, because, not least due to the 2008 crisis, risk management models and portfolio construction models have evolved and still allow for a decent return when managed thoroughly and correctly.

Some of the themes that emerged were around the construction of alpha-generating

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Key speakers include:

INSURANCE - Teemu Pennanen, King’s College London, ex-Managing Director at QSA Quantitative Solvency Analysts Ltd. He has extensive experience of consulting and providing solution to the insurance industry.

PENSION - Michael Dempster (Cambridge Systems Associate), consultant to a number of global financial institutions and governments.

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