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Dr. Bernard Lee, a Deputy Director at the Singapore Management University at High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 Singapore
Bernard Lee, Ph.D., CFA, Speaker at High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 Singapore (http://www.HFTLeadersForum.com), series organized by Golden Networking in New York, Chicago, Hong Kong and London
(November 16, 2011, New York) Bernard Lee, Ph.D., CFA, will be a featured speaker at High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 Singapore (http://www.HFTLeadersForum.com), November 21-23, forum organized by Golden Networking in the worlds major financial centers, including New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo and London. Professor Bernard Lee is Ph.D., CFA, is Visiting Practice Associate Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at the Singapore Management University. He also co-teaches part of an Investment Management course offered in the Spring Term by the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Prior to relocating to Singapore at the beginning of 2009, Dr. Lee was a Managing Director at BlackRock in New York City until Dec 2008, where he was the Global Co-Head for Multi-Asset Risk and one of its firmwide leaders in Alternative Risk. In that role, he led a SWAT team of mostly PhD-level quantitative analysts to support over $100bln of the firms most complex and sophisticated products, including various asset allocation products, single-strategy hedge funds, portable alpha, structured products and funds of hedge funds. To help manage these products exposures, the team built risk models using advanced statistics, with some of them being almost spot on during the credit crisis. This team was also well known among and respected by major sell-side dealers for its sophistication in constructing and analyzing complex trades to address specific portfolio issues, and in taking such ideas all the way through to trade execution. In Nov 2008, the structured products run directly by the team received Morningstar rankings of top 5% for 3 months and top quartile for 12 months.

Finally, the team played key roles in successfully restructuring most of the firms prime-brokerage relationships to address cash, financing and counterparty issues, in delivering state-of-the-art analytics that were key client requirements for closing major client assignments, and in successfully pushing for the redemption from a multistrategy hedge fund five months prior to its high-profile demise. Dr. Lee has well over a decade of industry experience in designing cutting-edge quantitative analytics for the proprietary trading desks of leading investment banks, and for top-tier analytical vendors. Prior to joining Blackrock, he was a Principal and Head of Quantitative Research at Allianz Hedge Fund Partners, where he developed and successfully implemented groundbreaking analytics for hedge funds. Before that, he was a project manager for the Financial and Commodity Risk Consulting division at Andersen, managing large-scale risk projects with project teams of up to 20 quantitative professionals. Dr. Lee is a contributing author to Intelligent Hedge Fund Investing, an industry reference from Risk Books (2004), and to Sovereign Wealth Management, published by Central Banking Publications (2007). In Nov 2008, he was invited to present his latest research at the Joint BIS/ECB/World Bank Conference on Strategic Asset Allocation for Central Banks and Sovereign Wealth Managers, a high-profile official institution and industry gathering, which proceedings will be published by Macmillan (2009). His current research focuses on the relationships among hedge funds, prime financing, and market liquidity, as well as the policy implications for central banks and official institutions. Dr. Lee also sat in the Organizing Committee of the New York Quantitative Finance Seminar, and occasionally acted as a referee for Risk Magazine. In 2005, his risk implementation at BlackRock won the Best Risk Analytics Initiative of the Year Award from Incisive Media, the publisher of Risk Magazine. Dr. Lee earned a B.A. degree with a double major in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the School of Engineering at Princeton University, an M.S. degree in computational mathematics from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. from the Centre of Quantitative Finance at Imperial College London (ranked #6 globally in 2008), where the Director of the Centre for Financial Research at Cambridge University acted as his independent examiner. High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 Singapore is produced by Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs and investors. Upcoming Golden Networking's Forums and Business Receptions include: The Speed Traders Workshop 2011 Hong Kong, "The Present and Future of High-Frequency Trading" (http://thespeedtradersworkshophk.eventbrite.com), December 12, Hong Kong

High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 Hong Kong , "How Speed Traders Leverage CuttingEdge Strategies in the Post-Flash Crash World" (http://hftleadersforumhongkong.eventbrite.com), December, 12-14, Hong Kong

The Speed Traders Workshop 2011 Sao Paulo, "The Present and Future of High-Frequency Trading" (http://thespeedtradersworkshopsaopaulo.eventbrite.com), February 1, 2012, Sao Paulo High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 Sao Paulo, "How Speed Traders Leverage Cutting-Edge Strategies in the Post-Flash Crash World" (http://hftleadersforumsaopaulo.eventbrite.com), February 13, 2012, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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