|
 |
| Press releases 2008 | |
| | Swiss Finance Institute press releases
Welcome to the Press Room of the Swiss Finance Institute!
Press contact:
Helen Hagenbuch
helen.hagenbuch@sfi.ch
+41 44 254 3090
|
18.11.2008
|
|
Banque Privée Espírito Santo & Swiss Finance Institute Award Prize for Research Revealing True Performance of Mutual Funds [PDF]
Banque Privée Espírito Santo and the Swiss Finance Institute are proud to announce the winners of a new private banking prize to finance researchers Laurent Barras, Olivier Scaillet and Russ Wermers. The prize, announced today at the Third Annual Meeting of the Swiss Finance Institute, acknowledges their research findings on the performance of mutual fund managers.
Download translation in French.
|
|
|
04.11.2008
|
|
Swiss Finance Institute Assembles Experts at Third Annual Meeting to Reflect on Financial Stability [PDF]
The Swiss Finance Institute will host a roundtable on finance in the wake of the subprime crisis as part of its annual research and knowledge transfer meeting on November 18th. The meeting will reflect on agency conflicts in portfolio management and their implications for risk, investment performance and the efficient functioning of financial markets.
Press photos for web and print.
Download translations in French and German.
|
|
|
30.09.2008
|
|
Swiss Finance Institute Marks 10th Anniversary of Private Banking Retreat [PDF]
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the International Private Banking and Wealth Management Retreat, a high level residential wealth management seminar organized by the Swiss Finance Institute that is held each year in Interlaken, Switzerland.
|
|
|
03.09.2008
|
|
NYU Stern School and Swiss Finance Institute Launch Banking & Financial Institutions Management MBA [PDF]
The New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business and the Swiss Finance Institute announce a new executive learning program to tackle future challenges presented by the global financial system. The specialized executive MBA in Banking and Financial Institutions Management assembles a faculty offering an unrivaled concentration of global expertise in banking and finance.
|
|
|
25.08.2008
|
|
Standard & Poor’s Compustat Databases Bring Market and Fundamental Data to Researchers at the Swiss Finance Institute [PDF]
New York and Zurich. Recognizing that high quality, extensive data sets are an important component in financial education programs, Standard & Poor’s Compustat has reached an agreement to provide the Swiss Finance Institute with unlimited access to its Compustat® North America, Global and ExecuComp® databases. The agreement enables over 100 researchers at the Swiss Finance Institute unlimited access to data corresponding to over 55,000 companies from 110 countries representing 88,000 securities.
Link to NewsWireToday
|
|
|
09.07.2008
|
|
Swiss Finance Institute Assembles Banking Elite to Launch Program for Senior Bank Managers [PDF]
The Swiss Finance Institute has launched a new executive education program called the Senior Management Program. Institute management joined participants and members of the Swiss banking elite to celebrate the launch on Monday evening in Geneva.
Link to NewsWireToday
|
|
|
18.06.2008
|
|
New Senior Chair Felix Kubler Gives Plenary Presentation at Swiss Finance Institute Research Meeting [PDF]
Felix Kubler, who has taken up a newly created Senior Chair position at the Swiss Finance Institute, has given a plenary presentation on computational finance at the Institute's annual research meeting held at Gerzensee Study Centre, Switzerland.
Press photo for web or print:
Link to NewsWireToday
|
|
|
20.05.2008
|
|
Amit Goyal Accepts Swiss Finance Institute Senior Chair Position [PDF]
Amit Goyal has been awarded a Swiss Finance Institute Senior Chair position at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. An accomplished researcher with 10 years experience at top US research schools, Professor Goyal will pursue research in applied asset pricing and portfolio optimization.
Press photo for web or print.
Link to NewsWireToday
|
|
|
23.04.2008
|
|
Swiss Finance Institute Awards new Research Chair to Patrick Gagliardini [PDF]
Finance researcher Patrick Gagliardini has accepted a Swiss Finance Institute Junior Chair position at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Professor Gagliardini's research agenda spans several finance fields including so-called systemic risk factors, namely, factors that can have a broad impact on financial systems.
Link to NewsWireToday
|
|
|
25.03.2008
|
|
Wealth Management Program Brings 52 Singapore Graduate Visitors to Swiss Finance Institute [PDF]
Link to electronic distribution
|
|
|
27.02.2008
|
|
Banque Privée Espírito Santo Sponsors New Swiss Finance Institute Prize [PDF]
Link to NewsWireToday
|
|
|
05.02.2008
|
|
Market Maker Launches Swiss Finance Institute Emissions Trading Course [PDF]
Link to PRZoom
|
|
|
20.01.2008
|
|
Press announcement about the 2007 Executive Program Diploma prize winners, including Dr. Haibo Wunderli-Ye [PDF]
|
|
| |
|
|
|
