Instructors and Contributors
EDHEC CAIA Review Courses
EDHEC CAIA review courses are designed and delivered by a team of experienced academics and practitioners.
Instructors
Felix Goltz
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Felix Goltz is a senior research engineer with the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. He is in charge of surveys and applied research and co-heads the indices and benchmark research Programme. |
He has taught finance, investment analysis and portfolio management in the school’s master programmes and delivered presentations at various industry conferences in Europe and Asia.
His research focus is on asset allocation with alternative assets such as derivatives and hedge funds, as well as indexing strategies for hedge funds and equity. His work has appeared in academic and practitioner journals such as European Financial Management, The Journal of Fixed Income and The Journal of Alternative Investments.
Dr. Goltz holds a Bachelor in Business Economics from the University of Bayreuth and a MSc and PhD in Finance from the University of Nice.
Georges Hübner
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An affiliate professor with EDHEC Business School since 2001, Georges Hübner is the Deloitte Professor of Financial Management and the Finance, Accounting and Law Department Chair at the HEC Management School of the University of Liège. He also serves as associate professor at the University of Maastricht. |
Professor Hübner has taught at executive and postgraduate in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia, and regularly delivers GARP and CAIA preparation courses.
His research has appeared in leading journals. His latest academic publications include articles in The Journal of Banking and Finance, The Journal of Portfolio Management, The Journal of Futures Markets and the Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds. Pr. Hübner received the Iddo Sarnat Award for the best paper published in The Journal of Banking and Finance in 2001.
He has co-authored or co-edited several books on venture capital, hedge funds and CTAs, credit derivatives, performance measurement and risk management including the noted Hedge Funds: Insights in Performance Measurement, Risk Analysis, and Portfolio Allocation (Wiley Finance Series).
Professor Hübner is the founder and CEO of Gambit Financial Solutions, a financial software company providing risk profiling and utility-based portfolio construction tools.
Georges Hübner holds a graduate degree in business administration and a PhD in Management (Finance) from INSEAD.
Philippe Malaise
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An associate professor at EDHEC Business School and practising asset allocation adviser, Philippe Malaise has over 20 years of experience in financial markets and asset management. Pr. Malaise has created and headed three financial software companies and has held executive director positions at five other European companies. |
Since joining the EDHEC Business School faculty in October 2003, Philippe Malaise has taught in the school’s MBA and MSc in Finance programmes and delivered executive education seminars on risk management and alternative investments. He is the Curriculum Director for the EDHEC CAIA review courses.
Within the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Centre, Pr. Malaise has participated in applied research projects for Eurex (Portable Beta and Portable Alpha Strategies) and Euronext (Benefits of Bond ETFs for Institutional Investors). Putting forward innovative ideas in the field of style analysis and performance attribution, Professor Malaise has designed a state-of-the-art performance measurement tool for EuroPerformance (Fininfo Group). He has recently published in The Journal of Alternative Investments, The Journal of Portfolio Management and The Journal of Risk Finance.
Professor Malaise holds graduate degrees in engineering, international finance and financial mathematics.
Other Contributors
Frédéric Ducoulombier
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Frédéric Ducoulombier is an associate professor at EDHEC Business School and the Director of EDHEC AM Education. Pr. Ducoulombier has held various teaching and management positions at business schools in France and China and has accumulated significant experience in business curriculum development, programme management and internationalisation of educational organisations. |
Prior to joining the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre to focus on the development of the school’s executive education in finance, he was the head of MSc programmes and managed the finance track of the MBA.
Pr. Ducoulombier has taught in the school’s MBA, MiM and MSc programmes. His academic interests lie with investments and corporate restructuring, and he is a former director of the Chinese Finance Association. Pr. Ducoulombier has co-authored the French edition of Corporate Finance by Ross-Westerfield-Jaffe.
He is a Chartered Alternative Investment AnalystSM and holds a graduate certificate in East Asian Business from Université de Montréal and McGill University and a MiM from IESEG School of Management.
Marc Kitten
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Marc Kitten is an adjunct professor at EDHEC Business School and a partner at Candesic, a London based strategy consultancy. He has over 15 years of experience of cash and derivatives markets. |
Marc Kitten leads the financial institutions practice of Candesic serving financial institutions including wholesale banks and private equity funds in the areas in the areas of strategy, organisation, marketing, commercial due diligence and risk management.
Previously, he has worked as a senior consultant at McKinsey & Co., and as a Vice-President heading a sales team of securities and derivatives at Deutsche Bank.
Marc Kitten has taught in the school’s MBA, MiM and MSc programmes.
He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, attended the Young Managers Programme at INSEAD and is a graduate of EDHEC Business School’s Master in Management.
