Seminar: Quantitative Analysis in Financial Industry
Are you a college graduate looking for the first job? Are you interested in changing your career to financial industry? Do you know why there are so many PhDs with different majors working in Wall Street? Come to the seminar and you will get advices and answers.
We are please to invite Mr. Lawrence Pohlman, PhD from Wellington Management to give us a presentation on Quantitative Analysis in financial industry. With more than twenty years experience in this industry, he will tell us what a Quantitative Analyst does, how much the values are and where the industry is now. And most importantly, he will tell us what skills are needed to succeed in the industry.
The seminar will bring you some insights on Quantitative Analysis and boost your career development in this field. So come to join us!
Speaker:
Lawrence F. Pohlman, PhDVice President and Director of Quantitative Investment Research
Date/Time:
12/8/2007, Saturday, 2-3pmLocation: (map)
E51 - 315, MIT, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAParking: (map)
Free, Hayward St. Lot, right beside E51Admission:
FREE, but seats are limited and Pre-registration is required for all audienceNote: To comply with the Wellington Management’s policy, anybody who is currently working as a Quantitative Analyst or working for the competitors of Wellington Management is not allowed to attend this seminar.
Registration:
Please email to quantsseminar(AT)ustcbaa.org with your information ofYour Name
Company or College Name (for students)
Email or other Contact Information
Event Contact:
Zhao Chen (quantsseminar.(at).ustcbaa.org)About the Speaker:
Larry is responsible for research in the Quantitative Investment Group. He and his team develop Wellington Management’s quantitative models for a wide range of styles including US and non-US securities. His team also manages pure quantitative portfolios.
Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2005, Larry was the director of Research at PanAgora Asset Management where he was responsible for overseeing all research, development, and enhancements to PanAgora’s quantitative models (1999 – 2005). He also co-chaired PanAgora’s Investment Committee. Before joining PanAgora, Larry was a senior vice president and the director of Fixed Income Research at Independence Investment Associates (1994 – 1999). Previous to that, he was a vice president at Blackrock Financial Management (1989 – 1994), where he worked in their Portfolio Engineering Group, and was an associate in Mortgage Securities Research at Goldman Sachs (1986 – 1989).
Larry holds his PhD in finance (1987), MPhil in finance (1986), MBA in finance and management science (1980), MS in operations research (1980), and BS in nuclear engineering (1977), all from Columbia University. He is a member of several professional societies, including the American Finance Association, Econometric Society, and the Chicago Quantitative Alliance.