The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Asset Management

Prior to joining EDHEC-Risk, Bernd Scherer was Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Asset Allocation at Morgan Stanley in London. Previously, he was with Deutsche Asset Management where he successively headed the Investment Solutions and Overlay Management Group in Frankfurt, and Global Quantitative Research and Portfolio Engineering from New York. Bernd has 16 years of investment experience within top financial institutions. He has published over 50 articles in leading academic and practitioner journals and is a board member of the London Quant Group.



Kenneth Winston is Chief Risk Officer at Western Asset Management and a Lecturer in Economics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Previously Dr. Winston was Chief Risk Officer at Morgan Stanley Investment Management in New York and an Adjunct Professor of financial mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He began his financial career as a quantitative portfolio manager after having taught mathematics at Rutgers University. Dr. Winston, who obtained his PhD in pure mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of numerous articles and papers in mathematics and finance.