Expert Witness Financial Service Litigations; NASD Arbitrations. Expert in Securities Trading & Pricing, Derivatives, Investment Management, Suitability, Controls, Hedging, Financial Risk Management

Joel Finard CFA, MA, MPHIL is an Expert Witness in Financial Service Litigations; NASD & NYSE Arbitrations.

He provides Expert Services in the area of:

• Securities and Derivatives:
• Trading, 
• Pricing,
• Controls,
• Operations,
• Risk Management,
• Hedging & Fraud
• Investment Management 
• Analysis Investment Process,
• Suitability,
• Asset Allocation,
• Investment Modeling,
• Churning,
• Excessive Fees,
• Fiduciary Duties,
• Supervisory Failures and
• Unauthorized Activity

Litigation Consulting in

• Capital Markets -
• Complaint Formulation and Amendment,
• All areas of Discovery, Damages & Settlement

BACKGROUND SUMMARY:

DELOITTE & TOUCHE, LLP NY,

• NY Partner in charge of Deloitte & Touche's Capital Markets Practice for over 7 Years leading the practice in the following areas:
• Litigation Consulting including Expert in High Profile Litigations
• Financial Risk Management Market, Credit & Operations Risk
• Trading - Controls Infrastructure and Technology

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORP. LTD., NY, NY

• Managed Sales and Trading of Capital Markets Desk for over 3 Years

TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY, Hartford, CT

• Portfolio Manager at Travelers Securities responsible for:
  • Investments Securities
  • Derivatives
  • Structured Transactions
  • Foreign Bond Portfolio
  • FX Portfolio

COLUMBIA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, NY, NY

• Top Rated Professor of Economics consistently ranked by students in the top 20% of all Business School Professors.

EDUCATION:

• CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, MA, MPHIL - Economics
• UNIVERSITY OF MASS AT AMHERST, BA - Economics, Magna Cum Laude

SELECTED ARTICLES & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

Articles: 

• A Discovery Road Map for Complex Financial Litigation NYLitigator Fall 2004
• A Blueprint for Valuing Interest Rate Swaps Fall 1994
• Bank Accounting & Finance Magazine A Framework for Corporate Financial Risk Management Probus/Irwin Fall 1995
• Do the Basle Market Risk Proposals Make Sense Derivatives Strategy June 1996

Speaker Topic:

• Annual Meeting & Management Conference Federal Home Loan Bank Conference:
• Accounting and Financial Reporting for Derivatives 
• Practical Applications and Recent Market Developments Conference:
• Valuing, Pricing & Using Capital Markets Instruments
• Hedging Pitfalls and Effective Liability Management Conference: Financial Risk Management in the 90s Topic:
• Corporate Liability Management and the Role of Derivatives Conference: Accounting for Derivatives
• Treasury Risk Management Structure and Liability Management Conference: Derivative Products: from A to Z
• Derivative Products Risks and Valuation Conference: Fundamentals of Derivative Products