Yaacov Kopeliovich

Research Associate at EDHEC Business School

Assistant Professor at UCONN - University of Connecticut

Schools

  • EDHEC Business School
  • UCONN - University of Connecticut

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EDHEC Business School

Highly analytical and results oriented finance professional with more than 10 years of exceptional experience in a variety of complex financial disciplines including derivatives, fixed-Income products, equities, and currency related products. Holds a double-doctorate degree in finance and mathematics as well as a master’s degree in financial engineering. Strategic thinker with quantitative and conceptual problem solving abilities, who is able to provide senior management with solutions and identify opportunities for improvement. Possess in depth technical knowledge of buy-side multi-asset portfolio management, portfolio risk, and, market risk, performance attribution, and pension fund liability management techniques. Able to perform investment and equity research. Well versed in stress testing algorithms, portfolio optimization including stochastic optimization. Excellent programming knowledge of C#, Java, C++, Scala, Matlab and R.

UCONN - University of Connecticut

EDUCATION

  • University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business Master of Financial Engineering, March 2004
  • Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Ph.D., Mathematics, Magna cum Laude, 1994 M.S., B.S., Mathematics 1990, 1987
  • EDHEC Business School, France Ph.D. in Finance, November 2014

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Florida State University, Tallahassee 1996 - 1998 Visiting Assistant Professor, Math Department
    • Taught Calculus, Engineering Math and Discrete Math.
  • University of California, Irvine, CA 1994 - 1996 Visiting Assistant Professor, Math Department
    • Taught Calculus, Group Theory and Linear Algebra

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