The International Association for Quantitative Finance and SunGard have named UCLA Anderson’s Eduardo Schwartz, Distinguished Professor of Finance, California Chair in Real Estate and Land Economics, and Finance Area Chair, the 2015 IAQF/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year (FEOY). The award will be presented to Schwartz on February 4, 2016, at the Museum of American Finance in New York City during the IAQF/SunGard FEOY Award Gala Dinner.
“I am greatly honored to receive this prestigious award,” said Schwartz. “Looking at the list of past recipients makes me feel humble — not only because it includes such brilliant minds in finance research and practice, but also because I am fortunate to count among them many of my own colleagues, friends, role models and, perhaps best of all, one of my students. I thank the IAQF for this inspiring recognition.”
Steven Silberstein, chief technology officer of financial software company SunGard and an IAQF board member, said: “As a provider of technology to many of the world’s leading financial services businesses, SunGard takes pride in partnering with the IAQF to select Dr. Schwartz as the 2015 Financial Engineer of the Year. Eduardo is an extraordinary talent. His pioneering work in modeling the uncertainty in pricing and rates is a hallmark of financial engineering. SunGard is privileged to deliver financial technology tools that assist in implementing the creativity of FEOY honorees such as Dr. Schwartz.”
Schwartz joins a prestigious list of recipients of the IAQF/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year Award that includes Martin Leibowitz, Douglas Breeden, Robert Engle, Peter Carr, Richard Roll, Bob Litterman, Bob Litzenberger, Jack Treynor, Jim Simons, Phelim Boyle, Oldrich Alfons Vasicek, Darrell Duffie, Jonathan Ingersoll, Andrew Lo, Emanuel Derman, John Hull, John Cox, Robert Merton, Fischer Black, Mark Rubinstein, Stephen Ross, and Robert Jarrow. Myron Scholes received a lifetime achievement award in 2001.
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