Global EQD 2025
Celebrating 10 Years Of Connection And Education
Registration closes: May 19 2025
Book your room by: April 19 2025
Attendance is for sponsoring banks, non-bank sellside and buysiders only. You must register to secure a spot in the room. Registrations are subject to approval.
Featured speakers
10 years after the first Global EQD, EQDerivatives is excited to be returning to The Wynn, Las Vegas for Global EQD 2025!
Join cross-asset derivatives and quantitative peers to discuss innovations in portfolio construction, tail risk investing, exchange-traded funds, relative value trading and portfolio diversification. We will be joined by expert speakers sharing their perspectives over two days of panel discussions and presentations.
Academic Keynote
Ananth Madhavan, PhD, is a lecturer at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley. Ananth has extensive practical and academic experience, with a focus on market microstructure, trading, asset management, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). He is the author of an Oxford University Press book on ETFs and Index Investing and has published over 60 articles in leading academic and practitioner journals.
His practical experience includes a variety of senior research roles as a managing director at BlackRock (2009-2024), Barclays Global Investors (2003-2009), and Investment Technology Group (2000-2003) where he was a member of the firm’s management and executive committees. Prior to moving to industry, Ananth was the Charles B. Thorton Professor of Finance at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and the W. P. Carey Term Assistant. Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ananth earned a BA degree from the University of Delhi, MA degree from Boston University, and a PhD in economics from Cornell University.
Ananth N. Madhavan
lecturer, Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley