Selected project placements and topics from previous years

Students

Past Project Placements

  • Bank of America / Merrill Lynch
  • Barclays Capital
  • BNP Paribas
  • Citigroup
  • Credit Suisse
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Ernst & Young
  • Goldman Sachs
  • HSBC
  • IXIS-CIB
  • JP Morgan
  • Lloyds TSB
  • Marney Capital Ltd.
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Royal Bank of Scotland
  • Rogge Global Partners
  • Santander
  • Swiss Re
  • Toronto Dominion Securities
  • UBS

Past Project Topics

  • Modelling the market information regarding the cash flow of an asset
  • Fractality in financial series
  • Pricing and hedging variance-related products
  • Coherent risk measures and risk-efficiency
  • Extending the Heston model to time-dependent parameters
  • Approximating Lévy process by hyper-exponential jump diffusions
  • Pricing and hedging volatility derivatives in models with jumps
  • Wrong way counterparty credit risk
  • Multi-factor models of equity returns
  • Coherence, utility, and dynamics in capital allocations
  • Stochastic volatility: investigation of SABR model
  • Pricing GMIBs by Hull-White and LIBOR models
  • Convexity adjustments in inflation-linked derivatives
  • Gamma-process dynamic modelling of CDS’s with counterparty risk
  • Swaption pricing with a log-normal model
  • A multi-factor shrinkage estimator for optimal portfolio weights
  • Affine stochastic mortality and the Thiele model: an econometric view
  • Volatility exposure through VIX and SP500 VIX short-term futures index