Chief Economist at Capital Market Consultants, LLC featured at 2nd International Symposium "Advances in Financial Forecasting” Held in Greece

Chief Economist at Capital Market Consultants, LLC, Dr. Brian Jacobsen, was featured at the 2nd International Symposium "Advances in Financial Forecasting". Brian Jacobsen, Ph.D., CFA is a Partner at Capital Market Consultants, LLC. The 2nd International Symposium "Advances in Financial Forecasting" was part of the 2005 International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering held at The Poseidon Hotel in Loutraki, Greece.

Milwaukee, WI (PRWEB) December 7, 2005

Chief Economist at Capital Market Consultants, LLC, Dr. Brian Jacobsen, was featured at the 2nd International Symposium "Advances in Financial Forecasting". Brian Jacobsen, Ph.D., CFA is a Partner at Capital Market Consultants, LLC. The 2nd International Symposium "Advances in Financial Forecasting" was part of the 2005 International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering held at The Poseidon Hotel in Loutraki, Greece.

The two conference sessions Dr. Jacobsen spoke about were "Valuing Active Managers" in the Advances in Derivatives, Asset Allocation, and Alternative Investments session and "The Use of Downside Risk Measures in Portfolio Construction and Evaluation" at the session on Asset Pricing and Risk Management. You can see the presentations in their entirety at http://economics.cmarkc.com/research/research.php. All extended abstracts accepted for presentation, including Dr. Jacobsen’s, will be included in a special proceedings volume in the Lecture Series on Computer and Computational Sciences, VSP/Brill Publishers due out soon.

In addition to his speaking engagements and quarterly economic and market commentaries, Dr. Jacobsen is the pioneering developer of the analytics behind CMC PASS Reports™ and other investment research initiatives at the firm.

About CMC

Capital Market Consultants, LLC is the leader in custom Open Architecture Investment Management (OAIM) business solutions for mid to small-sized financial organizations. OAIM provides investors with a wide range of alternatives in a single investment program; reaching beyond the limitations of a single brand, institution or product type resulting in multi-manager, multi-fund, multi-product investment opportunities.

With nearly fifty years of OAIM experience and a unique set of team skills and resources CMC is the partner of choice for financial intermediaries striving to grow their investment OAIM business, improve their service and differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive market place

General Information about the AFF and the ICCMSE

The Advances in Financial Forecasting (AFF) is the official symposium of the Financial Forecasting F2 section of the International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (ESCMSE)http://econ.uop.gr/~aff/aff2005call.html It aims in bringing together scientists from across fields that have an interest in various aspects of financial forecasting. As part of the ICCMSE, participants in the AFF have the benefit of interacting with colleagues of different backgrounds and see research on similar topics but with different perspectives.

Contacts at Capital Market Consultants, LLC

Barry K. Mendelson, CIMA

Managing Partner

414-727-7990 ext. 104

Brian Jacobsen, Ph.D., CFA

Parner, Chief Economist

414-574-1272

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