State-of-the-Art Commodities Investing
The TILL & LHABITANT Commodities Seminar
H. Till, Research Associate and co-founder Premia Capital Management, LLC.
Hilary Till
Hilary Till is the co-founder of Premia Capital Management, LLC, a principal of Premia Risk Consultancy, Inc., and a research associate with the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. She also sits on the advisory board of the Tellus Natural Resources Fund, a fund of hedge funds.
Ms. Till has over 15 years of experience in the commodity derivatives markets. Established in 1998, Chicago-based Premia Capital Management is a proprietary trading firm with a natural resources focus which specialises in using statistical techniques to detect pockets of predictability in derivatives markets. Premia Risk Consultancy advises investment firms on derivatives strategies and risk management policy. Before co-founding Premia Capital, Ms. Till headed derivatives strategies at Putnam Investments and also served as the company’s commodity portfolio manager for institutional clients. Prior to joining Putnam, Ms. Till was with Harvard Management Company where she set up the commodity investment programme of the university’s endowment.
Ms. Till has written articles on commodities, risk management, and hedge funds in refereed academic and practitioner journals. She serves on the examination committees of professional designations in alternative investment & risk management.
Ms. Till has authored many articles on commodities, derivatives and risk management in industry publications and contributed to ten books in the last four years including The Handbook of Inflation Hedging Investments (McGraw Hill), Fund of Hedge Funds: Performance, Assessment, Diversification and Statistical Properties (Elsevier), and Energy & Environmental Markets (PRMIA). She is the co-editor of Intelligent Commodity Investing (Risk Books).
Ms. Till has a B.A. in statistics from the University of Chicago and an M.Sc. in statistics from the London School of Economics.
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| F.S. Lhabitant, Associate Professor and Chief Investment Officer at Kedge Capital Partners |
François-Serge Lhabitant
François-Serge Lhabitant is Associate Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School, Professor of Finance at the University of Lausanne and Chief Investment Officer at Kedge Capital.
Professor Lhabitant is responsible for the investment management of the Kedge Capital Funds and investment mandates operated by the Kedge Group. Before joining Kedge, he was a senior executive at UBP where he was in charge of the quantitative analysis and the management of dedicated hedge fund portfolios. Previously, Professor Lhabitant was a director at UBS Private Banking Division and Global Asset Management where he developed quantitative models for hedge fund analysis and performance measurement.
At EDHEC Business School, Professor Lhabitant teaches the Hedge Funds, Commodities and Managed Futures course in the MSc in Risk and Asset Management programme and contributes to the work of the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. His research has been published in refereed academic and practitioner journals such as the Journal of Alternative Investments, European Finance Review, and the Journal of Risk Finance. He is a Member of the Scientific Committee of the AMF, the French financial markets’ regulatory body.
Professor Lhabitant has authored a large number of articles on finance and economics in industry publications as well as several books on alternative investments and emerging markets, including three hedge fund bestsellers. He has recently co-edited Commodity Trading Advisors: Risk, Performance Analysis, and Selection (Wiley Finance). He is a seasoned presenter and keynote speaker at top industry events.
Professor Lhabitant holds graduate degrees in engineering, banking and finance and a PhD in Finance from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales of the University of Lausanne.
EDHEC Asset Management Education TILL & LHABITANT Commodity Seminar:
