MathSoft Inc. Hosts 2nd Annual Quantitative Analysis Conference.Business/High Tech Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2000 Financial Industry Experts From Wall Street and Beyond to Reveal Next-generation Strategies for Quantitative Trading, Risk Management, and Web-based Financial Intelligence Systems MathSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq:MATH), Data Analysis Division, a leading provider of solutions for statistical data mining and predictive modeling technology will be hosting a financial conference on Thursday, September 28th, at the Marriott Marquis in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The conference is designed to provide financial analysts with strategic, real-world information for quantitative trading, risk/return modeling, and Web-based analytics.
Conference speakers include leading experts on financial
quantitative analysis:
-- Erwin Martens, Managing Director, Putnam Investment
-- Bart Dowling, Vice President, Merrill Lynch
-- Robert Brammer, Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer, TASC
-- Andrew Pedvis, Director of Global Product Development,
Standard & Poors
-- Peter Knez, Managing Director, Lincoln Capitol Management
-- Robert Frey, Managing Director, Renaissance Technologies
-- Emanuel Derman, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
-- Andrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance,
Director of Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT Sloan
School
-- Mark Salmon, Director of the Financial Econometrics Research
Centre, City University Business School, London, UK
"Every day the markets offer new challenges for decision makers at leading financial institutions from the emergence of 24-hour trading to new financial product development to electronic trade management. We expect this meeting will help analysts understand and exploit new analytic an·a·lyt·ic or an·a·lyt·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to analysis or analytics. 2. Expert in or using analysis, especially one who thinks in a logical manner. 3. Psychoanalytic. techniques for sharing and delivering valuable information via the Web," says Shawn Javid, senior vice president and general manager, MathSoft, Inc. "Based on the success of last year's event, we are pleased to offer an exceptional list of industry experts who will be able to discuss technology trends and new applications that are transforming the financial analytics industry." CONFERENCE INFORMATION Conference registration for Statistical Modeling And Computation Computation is a general term for any type of information processing that can be represented mathematically. This includes phenomena ranging from simple calculations to human thinking. In Finance is $295US. To attend the conference, please contact Kim Kelly Kim Kelly (born April 4, 1962 in Halifax, Nova Scotia as Kim Ackles) is a Canadian curler, throwing third stones for Mary-Anne Arsenault's Nova Scotia rink. From 1991 until 2006 she played third for Colleen Jones with whom she won five national championships and two world at 800/569-0123 ext. 278, e-mail to kkelly@splus.mathsoft.com or visit our Web site at http://www.splus.com/finance/financeevent.htm DATA ANALYSIS DIVISION The Data Analysis Division provides software and services for statistical data mining, business intelligence, and decision support. It has developed analytic information portals for clients ranging from .com start-ups to Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. . The division, a subsidiary of MathSoft (Nasdaq:MATH), develops S-PLUS(R) and StatServer(R), which supply high-end statistics, visualization Using the computer to convert data into picture form. The most basic visualization is that of turning transaction data and summary information into charts and graphs. Visualization is used in computer-aided design (CAD) to render screen images into 3D models that can be viewed from all , and predictive analysis capabilities for the quantification quan·ti·fy tr.v. quan·ti·fied, quan·ti·fy·ing, quan·ti·fies 1. To determine or express the quantity of. 2. of opportunity, risk, and behavior. The consulting group provides expertise and methodology for rapid design, development, and deployment of Web-based, analytical analytical, analytic pertaining to or emanating from analysis. analytical control control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test. solutions. The division serves clients in finance, biopharm, manufacturing, and science. The Data Analysis Division has more than 140 employees, with offices in Seattle, Dallas, Detroit, Research Triangle Park Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , Washington, DC, New York, and London. S-PLUS is sold under exclusive license from Lucent Technologies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LU). More information about the Data Analysis Division is available at http://www.splus.com, at 800/569-0123, by fax at 206/283-8691 or via mail at 1700 Westlake Avenue North, Suite 500, Seattle, WA 98109. S-PLUS(R) and StatServer(R) are registered trademarks. Other product and service names mentioned are the property of their respective owners. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion