FAMED INVESTMENTS AUTHOR TO SPEAK AT LSU UNION

January 19th, 2006

[LSU NEWS]

Author, professor, entrepreneur and trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb will be the featured speaker at an event on Friday, January 27, 2006, at 3 p.m., in the Atchafalaya Room of the LSU Student Union.

The free event is hosted by LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business Department of Finance and Student Finance Association, and is sponsored by Commonwealth Advisors.

Taleb is a professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also the founder of Empirica LLC, a research laboratory and financial products house in New York. In addition, Taleb is also an essayist, belletrist, literary-philosophical-mathematical flâneur, and “mathematical trader,” focusing on the attributes of unexpected events, with a focus on extreme deviations, the “Black Swans,” or outliers, their unpredictability, and a general inability to forecast.

He has authored numerous articles, as well as the books Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and Life and Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options.

All LSU students are invited to attend, and a reception will follow from 4 – 5 p.m. Attire for the event is business casual.

For more information, contact Walter Morales, instructor of finance, at 225-578-6285, or visit www.bus.lsu.edu.