If the current crisis (labelled as the subprime crisis) has highlighted the complexity of structured finance along with the necessity of developing more sophisticated risk management tools, it appears that a great deal of misunderstanding still prevails among economic and financial decision makers.

With the losses recorded by one fund of top quant manager, Renaissance Technologies, and three other funds of Goldman Sachs, the quantitative management industry might be facing its first real crisis.

Exercising their talents at Goldman sachs and Morgan Stanley, Yoël and Michael Zaoui are considered as two of the leading professionals in M&A throughout Europe.

He was a 27 year-old economist, head of Natexis! Known for his direct way of speaking, Marc Touati gives us his version on the career development of a strategist...

Benoit Mandelbrot, former student of Ecole Polytechnique, is a member of the research center of IBM. He also teaches at Yale and is the father of fractal mathematics ...