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Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies

Staff Research Interests

Research Area of Interest
Staff Member

Actuarial websites

Jim Farmer

Adverse selection  

Piet De Jong

Agency Theory and Risk Management
Elizabeth Sheedy

Annuities

Jim Farmer

Application of statistics to actuarial work

Timothy Kyng

Asset Allocation in Finance & Insurance
Ken Siu
Asset Allocation (Strategic, Tactical and Dynamic)
Dan Daugaard
Asset Allocation with Changing Risk
Rob Trevor
Asset and Liability Management for Life Insurance Companies
Dan Daugaard
Asset Pricing
Stefan Trueck
Basis Risk and Optimal Hedging
Bernd P. Luedecke
Capital Markets

Alex Proimos
Ed Watts

Catastrophe insurance modelling

Jiwook Jang
Corporate Governance
Ed Watts
Credibility Theory

Xian Zhou
Credit Risk Modelling
Ken Siu
Econometrics of Financial Markets
Stefan Trueck
Equity and Fixed Income Risk Premia
Dan Daugaard
Employee Share and Option Plans
Elizabeth Sheedy
Energy Markets
Stefan Trueck
Evaluating the performance of investment managers
Phil Dolan
Executive Option Schemes
Rob Trevor
Finance: Asset Pricing

Geoff Loudon
Garry Hobbes
Ed Watts

Finance: Corporate Finance

Geoff Loudon
Alex Proimos
Toomas Truuvert

Finance: Derivatives Pricing and Hedging

Geoff Loudon
Ed Watts
 
Ryle Perera

Finance: Finance Education
Toomas Truuvert
Finance: Fisherian Economics in Corporate Finance Theory and Practice
Toomas Truuvert
Finance: History of Economic Thought
Toomas Truuvert
Finance: Portfolio Management

Geoff Loudon
Alex Proimos
Garry Hobbes
Ed Watts

Financial derivatives pricing

Jiwook Jang

Financial Mathematics

Timothy Kyng

Financial Risk Management
Elizabeth Sheedy
Forecasting Financial Variables
Ed Watts 

Generalized linear modeling

Piet De Jong

Hedging Long-Term Options
Rob Trevor
Long-Term Returns and Risk
Frank Ashe
Mathematical Finance
Ryle Perera
Measuring and Managing Changing Risk
Rob Trevor
Measuring credit/longevity/operational risk

Jiwook Jang
Modelling Changing Correlations
Rob Trevor
Monitoring, Measuring and Modifying the Market Risk on a Swaps Portfolio
Bernd P. Luedecke

Mortality and morbidity of insured live

Leonie Tickle

Mortality forecasting

Piet De Jong
Leonie Tickle

Optimal Asset Allocation
Frank Ashe
Optimal Portfolio Construction
Dan Daugaard
Portfolio Performance Measurement
Rob Trevor
Pricing and Hedging Financial and Insurance Risk
Ken Siu
Pricing and Hedging GARCH and stochastic volatility options
Rob Trevor
Private Wealth Management
Steve Christie

Properties of graduation methods

David Westcott

Real Estate Economics
Stefan Trueck
Real Time Identification of Profitable Trading Opportunities
Bernd P. Luedecke
Regime Switching Models
Ken Siu
Research in Financial Economics
Stefan Trueck

Return to work modeling

Piet De Jong

Risk classification

Shauna Ferris

Risk Management (credit and operational risk)
Stefan Trueck
Risk Management by Non-Financial Corporations
Elizabeth Sheedy
Risk Management for Fund Managers

Frank Ashe
Elizabeth Sheedy

Risk Measures and Management
Ken Siu

Runoff Triangle forecasting

Piet De Jong

Screened Investments (Ethical and Environmental)
Dan Daugaard

Solvency regulation for financial institution

Shauna Ferris

State space modeling

Piet De Jong

Statistical Underpinnings of Portfolio Theory
Frank Ashe
Stochastic Finance
Ken Siu

Stochastic interest rate models

David Westcott

Stochastic Scheduling
Xian Zhou

Surrender value

Jim Farmer

Survival Analysis
Xian Zhou

Term Insurance

Jim Farmer

The Economics of the Fund Management Industry
Phil Dolan
The Impact of Company Hedging Policies
Shane Magee