Scientific Beta

Vijay Vaidyanathan, CEO of Optimal Asset Management and Research Associate at EDHEC-Risk Institute, will be a keynote speaker at the 2013 Risk Management Conference in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada on 13-15 August, 2013, where he will be conducting a workshop entitled ”Smart Beta in the Presence of Active Management”.

Vijay Vaidyanathan, CEO of Optimal Asset Management and Research Associate at EDHEC-Risk Institute, will be a keynote speaker at the 2013 Risk Management Conference in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada on 13-15 August, 2013.

He will be conducting a workshop entitled, ”Smart Beta in the Presence of Active Management” which will examine a real life situation where an investor already has allocations to one or more active managers. The session will take you through an example of a style-based manager and use smart beta in conjunction with active management to both enhance the manager’s outperformance relative to the cap-weighted benchmark, as well as neutralise the manager’s unintended factor bets.

The 15th annual Risk Management Conference, organised by Canadian Investment Review, is designed to provide plan sponsors with a forum for discussing and learning about new tools and strategies to help them manage both today’s and tomorrow’s risks. 

Vijay holds a PhD in Finance, and an MSc in Finance (Risk and Asset Management) from EDHEC Business School, as well as an M.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Albany and M.Sc (Tech) from BITS Pilani, India and is an alumnus of IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. Vijay is also CEO of Return Metrics Inc., a boutique investment management and technology consulting firm located in Silicon Valley, California, specializing in the use of innovative quantitative techniques to develop econometric models for a wide range of financial markets. Prior to this, Vijay held several high-level positions in technology firms, including CEO of Yaga Inc., Chief Strategy Officer with NBC Internet, and Chief Technology Officer with Xoom.Com.