Würtz D., Mehta M., Scott D., Hinz J. (eds.) R/Rmetrics. Workshop Singapore 2010

Rmetrics Association, 2010. — 252 p. — ISBN N\A.Welcome to the first R/Rmetrics Singapore Conference on “Computational Topics in Finance”. We are very glad that you found the time to come to the Singapore, and for the many of you traveling from the U.S., Europe and various places in Asia, we hope that your journey was not too arduous.
With the R/Rmetrics Singapore Conference, we want to create a new forum where fund and or risk managers from banks and insurance firms, decision makers, researchers from industry and academia, and students can exchange ideas and engage in stimulating discussions.
The environment for this workshop should be a place a little bit aside from the mainstream conference of venues, and we are happy to have found this at the Risk Management Institute of the National University of Singapore.
About 40 participants are attending the conference, and the mixture, as planned, is quite heterogeneous. About half are from academia, and the other half from the software and financial industries, including banks.