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Emanuel Derman was born on 1944 in Cape Town, South Africa, is an A 20th-century south african economist. Discover Emanuel Derman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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1945

Emanuel Derman (born 1945) is a South African-born academic, businessman and writer.

He is best known as a quantitative analyst, and author of the book My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance.

He is a co-author of Black–Derman–Toy model, one of the first interest-rate models, and the Derman–Kani local volatility or implied tree model, a model consistent with the volatility smile.

1966

Derman, who first came to the U.S. at age 21, in 1966, is currently a professor at Columbia University and Director of its program in financial engineering.

Until recently he was also the Head of Risk and a partner at KKR Prisma Capital Partners, a fund of funds.

1973

(Hons) at the University of Cape Town, and received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Columbia in 1973, where he wrote a thesis that proposed a test for a weak-neutral current in electron-hadron scattering.

Between 1973 and 1980 he did research in theoretical particle physics at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Oxford, Rockefeller University and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

1978

This experiment was carried out at SLAC in 1978 by a team led by Charles Prescott and Richard Taylor, and confirmed the Weinberg–Salam model.

1980

From 1980 to 1985 he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he developed computer languages for business modeling applications.

1985

In 1985 Derman joined Goldman Sachs' fixed income division where he was one of the co-developers of the Black–Derman–Toy interest-rate model.

1988

He left Goldman Sachs at the end of 1988 to take a position at Salomon Brothers Inc. as head of Adjustable Rate Mortgage Research in the Bond Portfolio Analysis group.

1990

Rehired by Goldman Sachs, from 1990 to 2000 he led the Quantitative Strategies group in the Equities division, which pioneered the study of local volatility models and the volatility smile.

1995

Since 1995, Derman has written many articles pointing out the essential difference between models in physics and models in finance.

Good models in physics aim to predict the future accurately from the present, or to predict new previously unobserved phenomena; models in finance are used mostly to estimate the values of illiquid securities from liquid ones.

Models in physics deal with objective variables; models in finance deal with subjective ones.

"In physics there may one day be a Theory of Everything; in finance and the social sciences, you’re lucky if there is a usable theory of anything."

Derman together with Paul Wilmott wrote the Financial Modelers' Manifesto, a set of principles for doing responsible financial modeling.

1997

He was appointed a managing director of Goldman Sachs in 1997.

2000

In 2000, he became head of the firm’s Quantitative Risk Strategies group.

Derman was named the IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year 2000, and was elected to the Risk Hall of Fame in 2002.

He is the author of numerous articles on quantitative finance on the topics of volatility and the nature of financial modeling.

2002

He retired from Goldman Sachs in 2002 and took a position at Columbia University and Prisma Capital Partners (acquired by KKR).

2004

His book My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance, published by Wiley in September 2004, was one of Business Week's top ten books of the year for 2004.

2008

In that work he decries the breakdown of capitalism as a model during the bailouts characterizing the 2008 financial crisis and calls for a return to principles, to the notion that if you want to take a chance on the upside, you have also taken a chance on the downside.

More generally, he analyzes three ways of understanding the behavior of the world: models, theory and intuition.

Models, he argues, are merely metaphors that compare something you would like to understand with something you already do.

Models provide relative knowledge.

Theories, in contrast, are attempts to understand the world on absolute terms; while models stand on someone else's legs, theories, like Newton's or Maxwell's or Spinoza's, stand on their own.

Intuition, the deepest kind of knowledge, comes only occasionally, after long and hard work, and is a merging of the understander with the understood.

His book elaborates on these ideas with examples from the theories of physics and philosophy, and the models of finance.

2011

In 2011, he published Models.Behaving.Badly, a book contrasting financial models with the theories of hard science, and also containing some autobiographical material.

Born to a South African Jewish family, Derman obtained a B.Sc.

From February 2011 to July 2012, Derman wrote a financial blog for Reuters.

In 2011, Derman published a new book titled Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion With Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life.

2012

Beginning in September 2012, for one year, Derman wrote a regular column for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

2016

In 2016, Derman and Michael Miller published a textbook titled The Volatility Smile, a textbook about the principles of financial modeling, option valuation, and the variety of models that can account for the volatility smile.