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QFINANCE viewpoints provide you with the distilled thoughts of finance leaders and experts, outlining their current thinking on the crucial issues and challenges facing finance managers, entrepreneurs and business executives. The contributions are drawn from an array of practitioners and thinkers from the world of finance and business.

  • Viewpoint: Bill Hambrecht
    Bill Hambrecht believes that Obama should steer clear of knee-jerk regulatory responses and instead restore transparency, fairness, and trust into the capital markets through solutions including forcing all derivatives trading onto regulated exchanges. Hambrecht, 73, has been in the securities business since 1958. He co-founded the San Francisco-based investment bank Hambrecht & Quist in 1968. Noted for its focus on the technology sector, H&Q...
  • Viewpoint: James Montier
    James Montier, an expert in behavioral finance, argues that investors would have a greater chance of spotting the formation of bubbles if they could only brush up on their history and have a greater awareness of human psychology. Co-head of global strategy at Société Générale, Montier has been described as an “enfant terrible” by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, an “iconoclast” by the Financial Times, a “maverick” by the Sunday Times and “a...
  • Viewpoint: Jim Rogers
    Jim Rogers grew up in Alabama and started out in business, aged six, selling peanuts and soft drinks at baseball games. He was educated at Yale and Balliol College, Oxford. After he co-founded the Quantum fund in 1970, the fund surged by 4,200% over the next decade, while the Standard & Poor’s index rose by 47%. Having earned enough money to “retire” at the age of 37, Rogers has since worked as a professor of finance at Columbia University,...
  • Viewpoint: Maureen J. Miskovic
    Maureen J. Miskovic believes that in the post-crash period risk managers of banks and financial institutions are going to step out of the back office and into front-line roles. Miskovic has been Executive Vice-President and Chief Risk Officer at Boston-based State Street since April 2008. In this capacity, she oversees a global team of more than 250 multidisciplinary enterprise risk professionals.Miskovic, born in the United Kingdom, is also a...
  • Viewpoint: Michael J. Panzner
    Michael J. Panzner is a 25-year veteran of the global stock, bond, and currency markets who has worked in New York and London for such leading companies as HSBC, Soros Funds, ABN Amro, Dresdner Bank, and J.P. Morgan Chase. He is the author of When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era (Wiley, 2009), Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Kaplan, 2007), and The New Laws of the...
  • Viewpoint: Paul Wilmott
    Paul Wilmott is a financial consultant, specializing in derivatives, risk management and quantitative finance. He has worked with many leading US and European financial institutions. Paul studied mathematics at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he also received his DPhil. He founded the Diploma in Mathematical Finance at Oxford University and the journal Applied Mathematical Finance. He is the author of Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative...
  • Viewpoint: Riccardo Rebonato
    Dr Riccardo Rebonato is Global Head of Market Risk and Global Head of Quantitative Analytics at RBS. He is a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford University (Mathematical Finance) and Adjunct Professor at Imperial College (Tanaka Business School). He sits on the Board of Directors of ISDA and on the Board of Trustees for GARP. He is an Editor for the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, for Applied Mathematical Finance, for the...

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