Title: Professor
Short Description: Emanuel Derman is a South African-born academic, businessman and writer. He is best known as a quantitative analyst, and author of the book My Life as A Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance. Emanuel's latest book, 'Models.Behaving.Badly' is due out in October 2011 and can be pre-ordered at: http://amzn.to/lla6GC
Institution: Columbia University
Dept Homepage: link
Twitter URL: twitter
Blog URL: link
Is this Member on the AGENDA team?: No
Joined: July 2nd, 2011
Emanuel Derman bookmarked When You Cannot Hedge Continuously: The Corrections to Black-Scholes (1998) (73 days ago)
Emanuel Derman wrote a new blog post titled REVISION: The Illusions of Dynamic Replication
Emanuel Derman wrote a new blog post titled REVISION: Metaphors, Models & Theories
About me:
Emanuel Derman is a South African-born academic, businessman and writer. He is best known as a quantitative analyst, and author of the book My Life as A Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance.
He is a co-author of Black-Derman-Toy model, one of the first interest-rate models, and the Derman-Kani local volatility or implied tree model, a model consistent with the volatility smile.
He is currently a professor at Columbia University and Director of its program in financial engineering, and is also the Head of Risk and a partner at Prisma Capital Partners, a fund of funds. My Life as A Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance was published by Wiley in September 2004, and was one of Business Week's top ten books of the year for 2004. His forthcoming book Models.Behaving.Badly, will be published by Free Press in October 2011 and and can be pre-order here: http:/
In 2000 Emanuel was named IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year and in 2002 was elected to the Risk Hall of Fame (pdf).
In 2009 Emanuel was co-author with Paul Wilmott of 'The Financial Modellers Manifesto'.
