Register for our "Alpha vs. Risk: Where Should I Spend My Time" live webcast

FactSet's risk management webcast series, focusing on helping you produce alpha and create performance-enhanced portfolios, wraps up this week with Alpha vs. Risk: Where Should I Spend My Time? The live event will be Wednesday, November 18 at 2:00 p.m. EST/11:00 a.m. PST.

Register for this session now! Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The presentation is hosted by Steve Greiner, Ph.D., former Head Quantitative Strategist and Portfolio Manager for National City Bank.

Steve will discuss the practical and theoretical issues regarding which piece of the portfolio management process adds more value: searching for alpha or forecasting risk. First Steve will review tracking error and asset allocation, and how their misunderstanding and misapplication contributed to the 2008 meltdown. Second, he'll discuss risk vs. alpha and consider each of them separately, then show why you need to consider them simultaneously, concluding with examples.

Steve was the Head Quantitative Strategist and a Portfolio Manager for the institutional asset manager arm of National City Bank (pre-merger with PNC). He was a key member of the Allegiant Structured Equity team, sitting on the Investment Committee and leading several strategies and being an integral contributor to other investment teams. In addition, Steven leverages his expertise to test quantitative processess employed by Allegiant's other investment teams and has firm-wide risk management responsibilities. Joining Allegiant Asset Mgmt in 2005, he previously served as the Large Cap Quantitative Head and Research Director for Harris Investment Managment and has 21 years of quantitative and modeling experience. Steven received his B.S. in Mathematics and Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Buffalo and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Rochester, along with Post-Doctoral experience from the Fachberiech Physik from the Free University of Berlin.

Send your questions for Steve via Twitter @FactSet to be answered during the webcast.