October 2020
Beginner to intermediate
928 pages
23h 32m
English
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About the Author
Dr. Philippe J.S. De Brouwer leads expert teams in the service centre of HSBC in Krakow, is Honorary Consul for Belgium in Krakow, and is also guest professor at the University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University, and AGH University of Science and Technology. He teaches both at executive MBA programs and mathematics faculties.
He studied theoretical physics, and later acquired his second Master degree while working. Finishing thisMaster, he solved the “fallacy of large numbers puzzle” that was formulated by P.A. Samuelson 38 years before and remained unsolved since then. In his Ph.D., he successfully challenged the assumptions of the noble price winning “Modern portfolio Theory” of H. Markovitz, by creating “Maslowian Portfolio Theory.”
His career brought him into insurance, banking, investment management, and back to banking, while his specialization shifted from IT, data science to people management.
For Fortis (now BNP), he created one of the first capital guaranteed funds and got promoted to director in 2000. In 2002, he joined KBC, where he merged four companies into one and subsequently became CEO of the merged entity in 2005. Under his direction, the company climbed from number 11 to number 5 on the market, while the number of competitors increased by 50%. In the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, he helped creating a new assetmanager for KBC in Ireland that soon accommodated the management of ca. 1000 investment funds and had about =C120 billion under management. ...
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