Boston Security Analysts Society - CFA Continuing Education Selected Topics in High Frequency Investing, July 16. 2008 About Crowther Investment The principal of the firm, Hugh Lagan Crowther, has over 25 years experience with investment processes, technology and marketing. He has worked on the buy, sell, vendor and academic sides of the investment business.  He began his investment career in 1982 at Value Line, where he managed and marketed the Institutional Quantitative Equity Research and Data business. From 1987 to 1995 he built and led the Analytical Software and Data Services group at Kidder, Peabody & Co., which developed and marketed global quantitative equity, fixed income, and derivative research, management, and trading products and tools.  From 1995 to 2001 he developed and managed international portfolio analytics, equity, fixed income, and derivative research, risk management, global benchmarks, and market data systems for Fidelity Management & Research. Since 2001, he has been directing quantitative research, building and managing portfolio analytics and models; creating training and education; evaluating, acquiring, integrating and managing research and investment technology for asset management, hedge fund, broker / dealer, financial engineering, portfolio manufacturing, tax efficient structured equity, custody, and vendor consulting clients. His professional and academic affiliations include: Executive-In-Residence, Babson College Steerage Committee Member and Treasurer, Quantitative Work Alliance for Applied Finance, Education & Wisdom QWAFAFEW Founder, Investment Technology Education Sub-Committee; Member, Quantitative Program Committee, Boston Security Analysts Society BSAS  (Boston CFA Institute) Past President and former director, Society of Quantitative Analysts SQA Former Adjunct Professor, Brandeis University | International Business School Member: CFA Institute CFA I, Boston Committee on Foreign Relations, Boston Market Technicians Association, Professional Risk Managers' International Association PRMIA, and Global Association of Risk Professionals GARP. Hugh holds a BSBA (Finance / Spanish) from the University of Denver, an MS (Management Engineering) and an MBA (International Business) from the University of Bridgeport.  He is a citizen of the United States and the European Union. Investment Research, Tools & Products Experience Advent, BARRA, Bloomberg, Bridge, C/C++, Citigroup (Salomon Bros) Yield Book, ClariFI, Columbia / Bank of America, Corporate New Issues, Counterparty, CRSP, Customer & Involved Party, DAIS, Datastream, Disclosure, Dow Jones, DTCC, EJV, Equity Research, Eagle PACE, Excel, Extel, Factset, FAME, Features & Services, FIBV, Fidelity Investments / FMR,Financial Asset & Event, Financial Times Actuaries, FTSE, FT Interactive Data (IDC), First Call, GLOBAL INSIGHT (DRI-WEFA, Data Resources/Wharton Econometrics),  Goldman Sachs, HOLT CSFB, I/B/E/S (IBES), IDD/Tradeline, IFC, ISID+, ITG, JPMorgan, Lehman Bros., Lipper, M&A, Market QA / Quantitative Analytics, Macro-economic, MATLAB, MetaStock, Micrognosis-MIPS, Micropal, Merrill Lynch, Morningstar, MSCI, Muller, Northfield, Oracle, PACE, Portfolio Manufacturing, Portfolio Management, PRISM, Putnam, Reuters,  Reuters Marketfeed 2000, Reuters Triarch-SSL, Russell, Standard & Poor's Compustat,S&P GICS, S&P Global Vantage,S&P Indices, S&P Credit Ratings, S&P Research Insight, S&P Compustat Xpressfeed, Salomon Brothers Stockfacts, Salomon Bros. Yield Book, SAS, Security Master (Products / Security Reference / Financial Instrument), State Street, SQL, Tax Efficient Structured Equity, Telekurs, Thomson, Tradeline International, Trading, Value Line, Vestek, Vickers, Vision, Worldscope, WorldVest, Zacks Investment Process   Equity Research   Portfolio Construction   Equity Trading   Post-trade   Process Improvement Hugh Lagan Crowther (781) 640-3354 hugh@crowther-investment.com Global Quantitative Investment: Process, Technology, Marketing Financial Engineering Consulting - Boston © Copyright 2002-2008