Become a Trainer

The Performance and Risk Association prides itself on providing the most up to date, relevant training for the performance measurement industry, using the best trainers.  If you would like to be considered as a trainer, please contact us on +44 (0) 20 7336 4600.

Our trainers:

Nick Rogers of Mellon Analytical Solutions has over 17 years experience in performance measurement and is widely regarded as a leading authority on this subject matter. Nick runs many of the PRA courses and consistently receives excellent feedback year on year.

Remco van Eeuwijk has been an active practitioner of and participant in performance and risk measurement for asset management since 1997.  As Global Head of Investment Risk & Performance at ABN AMRO Asset Management from 2006 to 2008, he was responsible for performance and risk measurement for more than EUR 200 billion in AUM with a staff of 25 in 5 locations.  From 2004 to 2006, Remco was Managing Director at Wilshire Associates, leading a team of 20 staff with responsibility for research, development, and client servicing for the Wilshire's risk and performance analytics products in EMEA.  Remco started his career at ING Investment Management, first as Quantitative Analyst, focusing on risk and performance measurement for equity portfolios and structured products, and from 2000 to 2004 as Head of Risk and Performance. 

Remco has been active in the GIPS governance structure, most recently as the EFFAS representative to the Regional Investment Performance Subcommittee for EMEA (RIPS EMEA).  He has also been a member of the VBA Investment Performance Committee, the Dutch country sponsor of GIPS, a representative for the Netherlands to the predecessor of RIPS EMEA, and the chair of several sub-committees of RIPS EMEA.  Remco is also a regular presenter on risk and performance measurement topics at various industry conferences. 

Remco became a CFA Charter holder in 2001 and holds a Ph.D. Candidacy and M.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan, U.S.A. and a B.A. Honours in Economics from the University of Alberta, Canada. 

Remco is married without children, lives in London, and enjoys playing the saxophone or reading historical novels in his spare time.

Robert Rice is Chief Executive of OCCAM Financial Technology, a firm he founded in 1993, with the aim of demystifying investment technology, and making it available to a wider financial audience. OCCAM’s range of software, particularly their newest products, POW! Risk and POW! Empirical, provide a set of tools for analysing, understanding and presenting risk and return in a simple but powerful manner, whether the investments are bonds, equities, derivatives, funds or other assets.

Robert's belief in the virtues of simple explanations - first advocated by William of Occam in the 14th century – and in the need to make quant practical, springs from his four years as Director of Investment Technology at Quantec and, prior to that, his many years with the Baring group, first in corporate finance, then at a central bank in the Middle East, and finally as Managing Director of Baring Quantitative Management.

Robert is a graduate of Oxford University, and has a particular interest in forging links between the academic and the so-called real worlds. He is a member of the council of INQUIRE UK, a not-for-profit organisation which through grants and seminars sponsors academic research of practical value, delegate to its sister organisation INQUIRE Europe and former chairman of its programme committee.

Peter Ellis, a Principal Consultant at Investit. Peter heads up the Projects division and the Performance & Risk practice at Investit. He has more than 25 years of experience gained in insurance, engineering, software development, and investment management. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Space Physics Peter spent several years working for software companies writing real-time control software for rockets and other fastmoving objects. He moved into the exciting world of finance when he joined Kapiti (now part of Misys) where he became Head of Development and Support for Banking Systems. After a spell at DSTi, Peter spent 8 years at Deutsche Asset Management where he was Managing Director for Performance and Client Services.