Dear Colleague,

We are very pleased to announce the forthcoming 5th Annual CARISMA conference.

5th Annual CARISMA Conference 2010: The Interface of Behavioural Finance and Quantitative Finance, 2 - 3 February 2010, London

Pre-conference workshop: News Analytics Applied to Trading, Fund Management and Risk Control, 1 February 2010, London

In particular, we would like to bring to your attention to

[1] The pre-conference workshop on News Analytics Applied to Trading, Fund Management and Risk Control on 1 February 2010

[2] The Evening Executive Briefing - Behavioural Finance and News Analytics, 18:00-20:00, 2 February 2010, London

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Introduction

Gautam Mitra, OptiRisk Systems/CARISMA

Session 1: Overview

If you had everything computationally, where would you put it, financially?

David Leinweber, UC Berkeley

Session 2: Technology and Applications (I)

Incorporating News Analytics into Quantitative Investment and Trading Strategies

Richard Brown, Thomson Reuters

The Role of News in Financial Markets

Peter Hafez, Ravenpack

Practical use of news in equity trading strategies

Mark Vreijling, Sem Lab

Session 3: Technology and Applications (II)

Short Term Risk from Long Term Models

Dan Di Bartolomeo, Northfield Information Services

Equity portfolio risk estimation using market information and sentiment

Leela Mitra, OptiRisk systems

Exploiting News-flow Signals

Andy Moniz, Macquarie

US Markets: Earnings News Release - An Inside Look Media Sentiment

Marian Munz, Media Sentiment

We hope you will find the programme and content interesting; should you decide to attend please register via our web site:

Your sincerely,

Michael

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Michael(Xiaochen) Sun, PhD, MSc.

Quantitative Analyst

&. VP Techno Marketing

OptiRisk Systems

OptiRisk R&D House
One Oxford Road
Uxbridge UB9 4DA ( Middlesex ) United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1895 819483 Fax: +44 1895 813095
www.optirisk-systems.com

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