October 20, 2008
Banks and Financial Institutions from across Europe were invited to meet EDHEC students and present careers, job and internship opportunities last week. The event was organised to enable students to meet representatives from London-based investment banks, European and French banks and business organisations. Leading financial institutions from Europe and the UK participated in the event. Read next page

Spreading EDHEC’s outstanding reputation in the world of Finance across the Atlantic, EDHEC’s Prof Joëlle Miffre, Professor of Finance and member of the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre, conducted a Seminar on Investing in Commodities in New York last month. She was joined by Hilary Till, co-founder of Premia Capital Management, LLC, a principal of Premia Risk Consultancy, Inc., and research associate with the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. Prof Till, who is a practitioner, delivered a practical insight into how she manages risk and the hedging strategies she uses for her portfolio. Read next page

Industry veteran turned head hunter cum executive coach Mr Patrick Fearon was on the Nice campus on the evening of October 8, 2008 to give a guest lecture on Investment Banking career paths to the students of Msc and MBA programme. Patrick spent 16 years with JP Morgan before making a career shift to executive head hunting and executive coaching. The video telecast of the presentation was available the following day for EDHEC students to review on the School’s on-line learning platform. Read next page

Another insightful evening on EDHEC's Nice campus for the students interested in careers in Investment Banking was recently organised in a cooperation between the School's Finance department and the Careers Centre. Read next page

Led by an exceptional team of instructors and dissertation directors, a select group of recent university graduates and experienced professionals will spend three years in a demanding doctoral programme. Read next page

EDHEC and EuroPerformance have released their annual rankings of the top UK asset management companies: the Alpha League Table. The Alpha League Table is constructed on the basis of a genuine measure of alpha, using a state-of-the-art methodology developed by EDHEC. Read next page

Dominic O'Kane, affiliated Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School has released a new book entitled Modelling Single-Name and Multi-Name Credit Derivatives. Read next page

The EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre will be staging the fourth edition of the EDHEC Alternative Investment Days at the ExCeL Centre in London on December 9 and 10 next. The conference aims to present the applied research conducted by the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre with leading pension fund managers and to discuss its results with the institutional investor and fund manager communities. Read next page