Contributing Authors
Jag Alexeyev and Daniel Enskat
Jag Alexeyev and Daniel Enskat are managing directors of Strategic Insight, which is a leading global fund research house that assists over 200 of the largest investment companies around the world in their product, marketing, distribution, customer retention, and business development efforts. They are widely known for detailed reports, unique analysis and perspective, and comprehensive databases.
Mark J. Bobseine
Mark J. Bobseine is President of Cutter Associates. CutterResearch is the investment management industry’s largest research organization dedicated to technology and operations with160+ member firms, including nearly all of the world’s largest investment managers. CutterConsulting is widely recognized as an industry leader and provides expertise in systems and operations strategy, architecture, data management, and systems selection and implementation.
Elizabeth Corley and Brigitte Miksa
Elizabeth Corley and Brigitte Miksa are at Allianz Global Investors, which is the asset management company of Allianz S.E. and one of the top 5 asset managers globally, with a total volume of €1,234bn assets under management as of September 30th 2005. Elizabeth Corley is CEO at Allianz Global Investors Europe and CEO at RCM Europe ex-Germany. Brigitte Miksa is Head of Pensions International at Allianz Global Investors, responsible for pension research and pension business development for international markets. .
Russell Deakin
Russell Deakin is a partner of CRP and one of its Investment Officers. CRP is the oldest continuously operating PE/VC firm in Brazil. Prior to his current role, Mr Deakin gained substantial experience in another sector of alternative assets, as a Partner and CFO for 11 years for a Brazilian real estate developer, and in capital markets with Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch in London.
Jean-René Giraud
Jean-René Giraud is CEO, Edhec-Risk Advisory, & Director of Development, Edhec Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. Edhec-Risk Advisory is the consulting arm of Edhec’s Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. Launched in 2003, Edhec-Risk Advisory has developed a series of service offerings aimed at supporting “buy-side” financial institutions as well as their service providers in both the traditional “long-only’ and the alternative universes.
Christopher Granville
Christopher Granville is a former First Secretary in the British Embassy in Moscow and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now Chief Strategist at United Financial Group, a leading Russian investment bank partnered since November 2003 by Deutsche Bank. In successive surveys of investors carried out by Institutional Investor and Thompson Extel, Christopher has consistently been ranked among the top analysts now working on Russia.
Nick Haining
Nick Haining is the managing director of NumeriX Software Ltd. NumeriX is the leading independent provider of market standard analytics for the pricing of cross asset structured products. NumeriX is embedded within almost all major derivative vendor and information systems: Reuters Kondor, Bloomberg, Calypso, MISYS, Wall Street Systems and many other vendors. NumeriX was awarded the ‘Technology Company of the Year’ award by Structured Products magazine in November 2006.
Dr. Scott Levy
Dr. Scott Levy, currently a director of PIL International Holdings, has worked as a proposition development specialist in Asia and Europe for both onshore and offshore investment products. He has given presentations on innovation and product development to product providers and the British Institute of Actuaries. He is also involved with trade issues as a member of the Investment and Life Assurance Group in the UK.
Dr Wolfgang Mansfeld
President of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) 2002-05,
Board member of Union Investment,
President of BVI, the German funds industry association.
Rafael Resendes and Daniel J. Obrycki
Rafael Resendes and Daniel J. Obrycki founded The Applied Finance Group, and developed the Economic Margin framework. AFG’s independent equity research is used in over 175 investment houses around the world, by analysts and portfolio managers seeking a superior approach to understanding the expectations embedded in stock prices.
Ray Soudah
Ray Soudah is the founder of Millenium Associates AG, the only Swiss based independent M&A advisory firm to the financial services industry worldwide specialising particularly in wealth and asset management including alternative investments and private equity. He is widely quoted in the investment media as an expert on M&A.