Fred D. Arditti
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Fred Arditti, among his various career achievements, was Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s chief economist from 1980 to 1982, playing a critical role in the development of the exchange's Eurodollar futures contract, today the most actively traded futures contract in the world and one of the most essential building blocks of the interest rate swaps market. Eurodollars were the first cash-settled futures contract, and they paved the way for non-physical delivery for the burgeoning growth of financial futures and other traditionally physically delivered products.
Arditti returned to the CME in 1997 to assume a leadership role in the development of the exchange's weather derivatives market, its Research, Marketing and Clearing functions, as well as its electronic trading business.
Arditti spent many years in academia, teaching at such universities as the University of Florida.[1] His book Derivatives: A Comprehensive Resource for Futures, Interest Rate Swaps and Mortgage Securities, is one the most assigned books on the subject of the markets in many universities.
A native New Yorker, Arditti was born and raised in the Bronx. Arditti died Oct. 30, 2005 of pancreatic cancer. At the time of his death at age 66, Arditti was a tenured professor of Finance at DePaul University in Chicago, having retired from the position of Senior Executive Vice President of the CME in March 2000.[2]
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Education
He received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, and his PhD. in Economics from M.I.T. in 1966.[3]
Fred Arditti Center for Risk Management
In 2006, the Department of Finance at DePaul University, with a $1,000,000 CME Trust grant over four years, established the Fred Arditti Center for Risk Management to honor his lifetime achievements in the fields of risk management and financial engineering. The center is intended to design and implement a curriculum in risk management and financial engineering, conduct research through the appointment of Arditti Scholars, and offer internships to meet the needs of students and the industry. [4] [5]
CME Group Award
The CME Group award is named after Arditti. The CME Group Fred Arditti Innovation Award honors an individual or group whose innovative ideas, products or services have created significant change to markets, commerce or trade. The award strives to celebrate innovation that through practical application has had a positive impact on the economic well-being of individuals, industry or a nation. Past recipients of the award have been Economics Nobel Prize winner William Sharpe, Leo Melamed, CME Group Chairman Emeritus and Eugene Fama, distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.[6]
References
- ↑ "Fred Arditti bio". www.fia.org.
- ↑ "Paid Notice: Deaths ARDITTI, FRED". New York Times.
- ↑ "Fred Arditti bio". www.fia.org.
- ↑ "The Arditti Center for Risk Management". DePaul University.
- ↑ "2006 Education in Financial Market Grants". www.cmetrust.com/.
- ↑ Press Release. CME Group.
