Applications of Neural Network Curve Fitting Methods for Least-squares Monte Carlo Simulations in Financial Risk Management

Monte Carlo simulation methods are commonly used as a risk management tool to estimate the risk exposure of financial asset portfolios. However, the traditional brute-force Monte Carlo (BFMC) method is often very timeconsuming, which makes it difficult to serve the risk management needs of modern insurance industry. An alternative approach, the least-squares Monte Carlo (LSMC) […]

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Developing Prediction Models on London Stock Exchange (LSE) Equitiesand Indicies using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Data Mining

I am to import ten year’s worth of amassed historical data on news events, price movement of equities and public sentiment metrics to Microsoft Azure platform for study and analysis through the latest Data Mining techniques with an Economics point of view to uncover the hidden correlation and casualty between events and price movement of […]

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Création d’indices de Performance du Conseil des Gestionnaire en Émergen

Dans le but de développer l’entrepreneuriat dans le secteur financier, le Conseil des Gestionnaires en Émergence (CGE) a vu le jour en 2014 et regroupe actuellement une cinquantaine de firmes du secteur financier (gestionnaires de portefeuille, firmes de capital de risque, firmes de consultations). En accord avec la fondatrice du CGE, Geneviève Blouin, nous voudrions, […]

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Practical portfolio management beyond mean-variance analysis

Portfolio management is crucial to both individual investors and our economy as a whole. For example, pension funds have large amounts of money to invest, taking their risk and gain potential into consideration. The project partner, Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), is one of Canada’s largest and most diversified institutional investment fund managers. AIMCo manages […]

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Recherche sur l’identité mutuelle au Québec en 2016

Dans un contexte où le marché des mutuelles d’assurances québécoises vit de grands défis quant à la compétitivité et la capitalisation, alors qu’elles tentent de rester conformes et cohérentes avec leurs missions et leurs natures associatives, Humania, inc et Union Vie cherche à trouver des moyens pour arriver à conserver cet équilibre et pour demeurer […]

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Quantitative risk measurement techniques for insurers

This project will assist Sun Life Financial to build, implement and validate quantitatively sophisticated state-of-the-art models of its risk portfolio. This will result in a better quantitative and qualitative understanding of company’s risk, liability and capital profile, and thus in more effective risk management decision making process.

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Position sensitive detector density well logging tool development

In well logging of the oil and gas industry, gamma-ray density logging is an indispensable method to determine a formation’s lithology and porosity. The most important index for a density logging tool is its precision and vertical resolution. This research proposal under support of MITACS and Rimpac Advanced Technology Development Ltd. aims at developing a […]

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Recherche sur le traitement d’information : la perception du risque interculturel

L’objectif principal est de cerner le concept du risque interculturel et de ses dimensions structurantes. Pour y parvenir, une analyse d’entretiens en profondeur auprès des employés et des gestionnaires des entreprises dont les employés sont issus des différentes cultures, sera réalisée. On vise à vérifier l’existence des dimensions trouvées précédemment dans la littérature recensée, mais […]

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Network Analysis of the Ontario Technology StartUp Innovation Ecosystem

The purpose of this research project is to explore, in more detail, the technology innovation ecosystem in Ontario with particular focus on mapping the network of existing relationships between start-ups, investors and supporting networks (i.e., incubators, innovation clusters and accelorators such as MaRs Innovation, MaRs Discovery District and various associations which include those servicing angel […]

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Diversité et leadership au sein de la Banque Nationale

“L’objectif principal du projet est de dresser un portrait global de la diversité et du leadership à la Banque Nationale et d’émettre des recommandations concernant les stratégies à mettre en place afin d’augmenter la présence des femmes et des minorités visibles au niveau de la direction. Les recommandations serviront à alimenter le Plan Triennal Diversité […]

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Diversity on Governance Boards

The diversity of Canada’s major cities is well-known. However, this diversity is not reflected in the leadership of the public and non-profit boards in these cities. This research is part of a national project in six Canadian cities (London, Hamilton, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver) that will study the representation of visible minorities and immigrants […]

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