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State of the Art Fund of Hedge Funds Management Seminar

 The LHABITANT Hedge Fund Seminar

F.S. LHABITANT, Associate Professor and Chief Investment Officer of Kedge Capital

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 several Hedge Fund bestsellers. His latest reference text is the Handbook of Hedge Funds (Wiley Finance). François-Serge Lhabitant is a seasoned keynote speaker at top industry events and is a member of the hedge fund industry Investor Steering Committee set up by AIMA. 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.


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