Q Group Seminars

Date

Topic

Speaker

15^th February

Matlab's Financial Toolbox

Dr Michael Kelly, University of Western Sydney

28^th March

Smart Consensus Earning in Asia

David Rickard, Macquarie Equities

2^nd May

Tax Drag on Investment Returns - Impact of Realisation of CGT

Dr Peter Vann, Constellation Asset Management

25^th May

A Practitioners Perspective of the Private Equity Market

Steven White, Macquarie Investment Management

27^th June

Genetic Algorithm Optimisation in Finance and Investment (Papers 1 & 2)

Rob Pereira, County Investment Management

5^th September

Indexing Defensive Asset Classes

Herb Blank , QED International Associates and QWAF-A-FEW, a Q Group like group

16^th October

Market Valuation of Tax-Timing Options: Evidence from Capital Gains Distributions

Prof Jeffrey Pontiff, Department of Finance, University of Washington

16^th November

Attribution Analysis: A New Common Approach

Leonid Kirievsky, InTech