Wilmott Magazine

Wilmott Magazine

Wilmott Magazine is a mathematical finance and risk management magazine.

Infobox Newspaper
name = Wilmott Magazine
type = 6 times a year
format = 11 inches square
foundation = 1999
owners = Wiley Publishing and Paul Wilmott
headquarters = London
editor = Paul Wilmott
price = £ 395 (6 Issues a year)
circulation = ca 2000
language = English
publisher = Wiley Publishing
website = [http://www.wilmott.com/ www.wilmott.com]

People

Paul Wilmott (Editor in chief)

Daniel Tudball (Editor)

Liam Larkin (Graphic artist)

Wilmott magazine has a stable of regular contributors, some of them famous in the financial industry: Edward Thorp (the author of Beat the Dealer and Beat the market), Espen Haug (the author of Derivatives Models on Models), Aaron Brown (the author of Poker Face of Wall Street), Professor William Ziemba (author of a series of books), Nassim Taleb (the author of The Black Swan) and Henriette Prast.

Content

Wilmott magazine has a section with very serious technical articles on mathematical finance, but the magazine is also known to have more entertaining and a less serious side like: quantitative financial comic strips, and lighter articles discussing for example the current crisis in the credit market.

Each copy of Wilmott is 11 inches square, runs about 100 pages, and is printed on very glossy paper.

History

The magazine got launched in 1999 in London. The owners of the magazine are Wiley Publishing and editor in chief Paul Wilmott. The magazine is useful for people working with quantiative finance in hedge fund, investment banks and professional investment mangement firms. According to a recent article in Portfolio the magazine has a international subscription base.

External links

* [http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2008/08/13/Paul-Wilmotts-Financial-Magazine Portfolio magazine reportage on Wilmott Magazine and Paul Wilmot ]
* [http://www.wilmott.com/ web page related to the magazine]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/opinion/18wilmott.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin Interview of Paul Wilmott in New York times]


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