Kamakura Managing Director Robert A. Jarrow Named for RISK Magazine 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award
NEW YORK, January 14, 2009: Kamakura Corporation announced today that Robert A. Jarrow, Kamakura Managing Director of Research since 1995, has been awarded the RISK Magazine 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in the magazine’s January edition. Professor Jarrow is also Ronald and Susan Lynch Professor of Investment Management at the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and a Senior Fellow at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The RISK citation for his award cites his diverse contributions to theoretical finance, from the Heath-Jarrow-Morton term structure model framework to the first “reduced form” credit model co-authored with Professor Stuart Turnbull of the University of Houston. At Kamakura Corporation, Professor Jarrow has been deeply involved in the derivatives valuation capabilities of the firm’s Kamakura Risk Manager software package and the default models for public companies and sovereigns offered under the Kamakura Risk Information Service.
The RISK Lifetime Achievement Award citation reads “In recognition of his work in helping to develop innovative models now used by dealers, investors and regulators, alongside his role in the creation and popularization of the modern discipline of mathematical finance, Robert Jarrow, professor of economics, finance and investment management at Cornell University and director of research at Hawaii-based vendor Kamakura, wins Risk's 2009 lifetime achievement award.”
“Fourteen years ago the partners at Kamakura were honored to have Professor Robert Jarrow join our ranks to advance the state of the art of risk management,” said Kamakura founder and chief executive officer Dr. Donald R. van Deventer. “All of us have the daily pleasure of Bob’s brilliant insights, his quiet humor, and his perpetual modesty. Bob’s contributions as Managing Director for Research and as a member of the Board of Directors of the firm have been invaluable. We are extremely pleased to have the editors of RISK recognize the talent of our esteemed colleague and great friend.”
Dr. Jarrow received an A.B. in Mathematics and Management Science from Duke University, his M. B. A. in Finance 
from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and his Ph. D. in Finance with a minor in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied with Nobel Prize winners Robert Merton, Franco Modigliani, and Paul Samuelson.
The International Association of Financial Engineers named Professor Jarrow the Financial Engineer of the Year in 1997. He was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Hall of Fame in 2004, and is included in Risk Magazine's 2002 Hall of Fame, which has 50 members. He is also currently both an FDIC senior fellow and an IAFE senior fellow.
As one of the world's foremost authorities on bond market dynamics and foreign exchange, Dr. Jarrow is an originator of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton multi-factor term structure model, and the author of five books and more than one hundred thirty research articles on derivatives and risk management. Dr. Jarrow also serves in an editorial capacity for various distinguished academic journals in finance, including Mathematical Finance, the Review of Derivatives Research, the Journal of Derivatives, and the Journal of Fixed Income.
About Kamakura Corporation
Founded in 1990, Honolulu-based Kamakura Corporation is a leading provider of risk management information, processing and software. Kamakura has been a provider of daily default probabilities and default correlations for listed companies since November, 2002. Kamakura announced the KRIS Sovereign Default Probability Service on May 19, 2008. Kamakura launched its collateralized debt obligation (CDO) pricing service KRIS-CDO in April 2007. Kamakura is also the first company in the world to develop and install a fully integrated enterprise risk management system that analyzes credit risk, market risk, asset and liability management, transfer pricing, and capital allocation. The Kamakura Risk Manager system, now in version 7.0, was first offered commercially in 1993 and has been continually enhanced since then. Kamakura has served more than 185 clients ranging in size from $3 billion in assets to $1.6 trillion in assets. Kamakura’s risk management products are currently used in 27 countries, including the United States, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Russia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, Japan, China, Korea and many other countries in Asia.
Kamakura has world-wide distribution alliances with Fiserv, Unisys, and Zylog Systems making Kamakura products available in almost every major city around the globe.
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