Andrea Buffoli

About

Overview

Andrea Buffoli is a Doctoral Student in Actuarial Science at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London. His research focuses on dynamic portfolio optimisation, utilising both classical approaches and reinforcement learning methods.

Andrea holds a BSc in Banking and Finance, as well as a MSc in Money, Finance, and Risk Management, both from the University of Brescia in Italy. For his master's thesis on "Dynamic Portfolio Optimisation for Endowment Funds" he was awarded a £1,500 scholarship through a national competition by "Assiom Forex" and was honoured at their 30th congress in Genova.

Andrea also has experience as a Research and Teaching Assistant at Bayes Business School. Furthermore, in his second year of the PhD program, he became the PhD students' representative for the Department of Actuarial Science.

Qualifications

• Academic IELTS, British Council, 2023 - 2025
• MsC in Money, Finance and Risk Management, University of Brescia, Italy, 2020 - 2022
• BsC in Banking and Finance, University of Brescia, Italy, 2016 - 2019

Languages

English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review), French (can read, write, understand spoken) and Italian (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review)

Expertise

Primary topics

• Mathematical & Quantitative Methods
• Quantitative Finance
• Econometric & Statistical Methods
• Actuarial Science
• Statistics
• Bayesian Statistics
• Multivariate statistics

Additional topics

• Financial Risk & Risk Management

Research students

1^stsupervisor

• Dr Iqbal Owadally, Reader in Actuarial Science

2^ndsupervisor

• Dr Russell Gerrard, Head of Faculty, Associate Professor of Statistics