Autor: Jan De Spiegeleer

Jan De Spiegeleer (Geneva, Switzerland) is Head of Risk Management at Jabre Capital Partners, a Geneva-based hedge fund. He developed an extensive knowledge of derivatives pricing, hedging and trading while working for KBC Financial Products in London, where he was Managing Director of the equity derivatives desk. Prior to his financial career, Jan worked for ten years as an officer in the Belgian Army, and served in Iraq. Wim Schoutens (Leuven, Belgium) is a research professor in financial engineering in the Department of Mathematics at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He has extensive practical experience of model implementation and is well known for his consulting work to the banking industry and other institutions. Wim is the author of Lévy Processes in Finance and Lévy Processes in Credit Risk, and co-editor of Exotic Option Pricing and Advanced Lévy Models all published by John Wiley and Sons. He is Managing Editor of the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance and Associate Editor of Mathematical Finance, Quantitative Finance and Review of Derivatives Research.