Prof. William Ziemba University of British Columbia, Canada

William T. Ziemba is the Alumni Professor (Emeritus) of Financial Modeling and Stochastic Optimization in the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia where he taught from 1968-2006 and professor at the ICMA Centre, University of Reading. His PhD is from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been... read morea visiting professor at Cambridge, Oxford, London School of Economics, and Warwick in the UK, at Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley, MIT, University of Washington and Chicago in the US, Universities of Bergamo, Venice and Luiss in Italy, the Universities of Zurich, Cyprus, Tsukuba (Japan), KAIST (Korea) and the National University of Singapore. He has been a consultant to a number of leading financial institutions including the Frank Russell Company, Morgan Stanley, Buchanan Partners, RAB Hedge Funds, Gordon Capital, Matcap, Ketchum Trading and, in the gambling area, to the BC Lotto Corporation, SCA Insurance, Singapore Pools, Canadian Sports Pool, Keeneland Racetrack and some racetrack syndicates in Hong Kong and Australia. His research is in asset-liability management, portfolio theory and practice, security market imperfections, Japanese and Asian financial markets, hedge fund strategies, risk management, sports and lottery investments and applied stochastic programming. Prof. Ziemba has published widely in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science,, Mathematics of OR, Mathematical Programming, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and JFQA and in many books and special journal issues. Recent books include Applications of Stochastic Programming with S.W. Wallace, SIAM-MPS, 2005, Stochastic Optimization Models in Finance, 2nd edition with R. G. Vickson, World Scientific, 2006 and Handbook of Asset and Liability Modeling, Volume 1: Theory and Methodology (2006) and Volume 2: Applications and Case Studies (2007) with S. A. Zenios, North Holland, Scenarios for Risk Management and Global Investment Strategies with Rachel Ziemba, Wiley, 2007, Handbook of Investments: Sports and Lottery Betting Markets, with Donald Hausch, North Holland, 2008, Optimizing the Aging, Retirement and Pensions Dilemma with Marida Bertocchi and Sandra Schwartz and The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion, 2010, with legendary hedge fund trader Edward Thorp and Leonard MacLean. His co-written practitioner paper on the Russell-Yasuda model won second prize in the 1993 Edelman Practice of Management Science Competition. He has been a futures and equity trader and hedge fund and investment manager since 1983. He is the series editor for North Holland’s Handbooks in Finance, World Scientific Handbooks in Financial Economics and Books in Finance, and previously was the CORS editor of INFOR and the department of finance editor of Management Science, 1982-1992. He has continued his columns in Wilmott and is preparing a book with Rachel Ziemba on the 2007-2012 columns for World Scientific. Prof. Ziemba, along with Hausch, wrote the famous Beat the Racetrack book (1984 (which was revised into Dr Z’s Beat the Racetrack (1987), which presented their place and show betting system and the Efficiency of Racetrack Betting Markets (1994, 2008) – the so-called bible of racetrack syndicates. Their 1986 book Betting at the Racetrack extends this efficient/inefficient market approach to simple exotic bets. Prof. Ziemba is revising BATR into Exotic Betting at the Racetrack which adds Pick3,4,5,6, etc and updates a few things for World Scientific to be out in the spring 2013.