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Instructor

Ronald T. Slivka

Practical Experience:


Dr. Ronald Slivka is a New York Institute of Finance faculty member who specializes in Derivative Securities. He has over 28 years of experience on Wall Street in both money management and securities sales. Ron has held Equity Derivative Sales Management positions at Salomon Brothers, JP Morgan and ING Barings. He has assisted major financial clients in the Americas with the uses of portfolio trading, equity derivatives, quantitative strategies and risk management.

Ron also is an independent provider of training, consulting and contract marketing services, specializing in derivative solutions and structured financial transactions. Derivatives utilized include futures, forwards, swaps, options and exchange-traded funds in both developing and developed global financial markets.

Clients have included investment banks, money managers, US, Canadian and Latin American pension funds, global futures and securities exchanges, broker/dealers and software developers.

As an Adjunct Professor in the Financial Engineering Program at the Graduate School of New York's Polytechnic University, Dr. Slivka teaches a graduate level course in derivatives and their applications. He has written over 25 articles and book chapters on a broad range of derivatives and portfolio trading topics applied to developed and emerging markets.

Areas of Expertise:


Equity and Interest Rate Derivatives
Risk Management

Education:


Bachelor of Science in Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University
Master of Science and PhD in Physics, University of Pennsylvania

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