Financial Engineering

Gifford Fong: Commencement speaker at UCLA Anderson School of Management Financial Engineers Graduation

Gifford Fong: Commencement speaker at UCLA Anderson School of Management Financial Engineers Graduation

Commencement speaker H. Gifford Fong, president of Gifford Fong Associates, reinforced Longstaff's remarks, telling the graduates that "things always change over time" and that they will need to continually adapt to these changes and that they need to have an attitude that is open to lifelong learning to succeed as financial engineers. He concluded with a wink towards their degree by hoping that "they always have a positive alpha, that they manage their beta and have a small residual variance."