Gifford Fong Associates

FIRST CLASS OF FINANCIAL ENGINEERS GRADUATES FROM UCLA ANDERSON.
States News Service; 12/15/2009; 656 words; ...learning partnership. Commencement speaker H. Gifford Fong, president of Gifford Fong Associates, reinforced Longstaff's remarks, telling...and the Outstanding Service Award to Adjunct Associate Professor Jason Hsu. MFE Lecturer and Executive...

Acadian adds risk tool to expand strategies; Anticipated shortfall likely to give clients better feel for more volatile investments.(Acadian Asset Management Inc.)
Pensions & Investments; 11/27/2006; 1631 words; ...derivatives, going to something along the lines of expected shortfall does make sense,'' said H. Gifford Fong, president of Gifford Fong Associates, Lafayette, Calif., a fixed-income and derivatives consultant. Expected shortfall is particularly...

Sharpe rethinks the capital asset pricing model; Says he has found a better way to teach managers, students.(News)
Investment News; 10/9/2006; 1635 words; ...various moving parts of the optimization,'' said Gifford Fong, editor of the Journal of Investment Management and president of Gifford Fong Associates, a Lafayette, Calif.-based consultant on fixed...

Rethinking CAPM; Sharpe supports less complex simulation as a way to overcome the flaws of mean-variance analysis.(Portfolio Strategies)(Capital Asset Pricing Model )
Pensions & Investments; 10/2/2006; 2007 words; ...various moving parts of the optimization,'' said Gifford Fong, editor of the Journal of Investment Management and president of Gifford Fong Associates, a Lafayette, Calif.-based consultant on fixed...

Biz journal editor sees position as a win-win.(News)
Investment News; 9/11/2006; 533 words; ...based CFA Institute. As chairman of Ennis Knupp + Associates, the Chicago-based consulting firm he co-founded...become too academically oriented under former editor Gifford Fong. Mr. Ennis said he plans to cultivate leading academics...