''Wilmott Magazine'' is a mathematical finance and risk management magazine, combining technical articles with humor pieces. Each copy of ''Wilmott'' is 11 inches square, runs about 100 pages, and is printed on

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Content and contributors

''Wilmott'' has a section with technical articles on mathematical finance, but includes quantitative financial comic strips, and lighter articles. ''Wilmott'' magazine's regular contributors include Edward Thorp, Espen Gaarder Haug, Aaron Brown, William Ziemba,

Nassim Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; alternatively ''Nessim ''or'' Nissim''; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist whose work concerns problems of randomness, ...

, Henriette Prast, Kent Osband,

Satyajit Das Satyajit Das (born 1957) is an Australian former banker and corporate treasurer, turned consultant, and author. Early life and education Satyajit Das was born in Calcutta, India in 1957. His family emigrated to Australia when he was 12. Das ...

, Babak Mahdavi-Damghani, Pat Hagan, Dave Ingram, Elie Ayache, Milford Radley, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Jan Darasz.

History

The magazine was launched in 1999 in London. The publishers are

Wiley Publishing John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley (), is an American multinational publishing company founded in 1807 that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials. The company produces books, journals, and encyclopedias, in ...

and editor in chief

Paul Wilmott Paul Wilmott (born 8 November 1959) is an English researcher, consultant and lecturer in quantitative finance.hedge fund A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as s ...

investment banks Investment banking pertains to certain activities of a financial services company or a corporate division that consist in advisory-based financial transactions on behalf of individuals, corporations, and governments. Traditionally associated wit ...

, risk management and professional investment management firms.

References

External links

''Wilmott Magazine''

''Portfolio'' magazine reportage on Wilmott Magazine and Paul Wilmott

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