Events
The IAFE is known for the quality of its events and the prestige of the panelists who present. Often, these events are evening panels with 3–4 speakers; both practitioners and academics typically sit on these panels. Much of the information presented at these events is available afterward on the IAFE website.
Every year, the IAFE honors one member of the financial engineering world with its Financial Engineer of the Year award. The winner is selected through an exhaustive nomination and voting process and the list of former winners illustrates the high standards that the nominees must meet. Former FEOY recipients continue to serve the IAFE as Senior Fellows and include such notable names as Myron Scholes, Robert Merton, William Sharpe, and Jonathan Ingersoll.
The winner of the FEOY is celebrated at an annual Gala-dinner hosted by the IAFE and traditionally held at the United Nations building in New York City. This event is attended by many of the most distinguished members of the field and is one of the most important evenings on the IAFE calendar.
The IAFE hosts an annual conference in the late spring, which is an all day event which includes some of the biggest names in the industry. The schedule consists of 2–3 panels and a keynote speech by the previous year’s Financial Engineer of the Year, all of which circle around one common theme. The conference is one of the most highly attended and anticipated events of the year.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.
“There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)