Charles Kierkegaard Langford, PhD
Charles K. Langford is President of Charles K. Langford, Inc, Portfolio Managers. He teaches portfolio management at School of Management (École des Sciences de la Gestion), University of Québec (Montréal). He is the author of 14 books on portfolio management, derivatives strategies and technical analysis.
Until 2007 he has been vice-president overlay risk management for Visconti Venosta Teaspoon Approach Management, Ltd. Until 1990 he was portfolio manager for Refco Futures (Canada) Ltd.
Since 1975 he is giving seminars in English and French,
on risk management in stocks, bonds, Exchange and Off-Exchange derivatives: since 1982 for the Montreal Exchange on institutional and corporate financial
risk management, in Montreal and Toronto; for the Paris Stock Exchange (1987, Revue Banque (1987-1990) in France; for Association des Banques et Banquiers
in Luxembourg (1987-1989); in Italy (Milan) for Iniziative Editoriali S.p.A. (1991); in Hungary for The Banking Institute (1991-1995) and The Budapest
Commodity Exchange (1994-1995); in Slovakia, for The Banking Institute (1994-1995), in the Bahamas (1998), in Miami for Eurofinance (1999); for the CADC
(Canadian Annual Derivatives Conference organized by the Montreal Exchange) in 2002 and 2003 and for Disnat and DisnatDirect (the Canadian discount brokers)
since 2005.
He has been a regular columnist on risk management for Revue Banque, France (1987-1994); Finance, Canada (1985-1987); Investire, Italy
(from 1990 to 1994). Occasionally he has written articles for the monthly Banca, Italy, the Canadian Treasurer, for Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities
(September 2008 issue) and since 2005 for Disnat and DisnatDirect.
He has been consultant for several industries in hedging techniques and for pension funds in portfolio constructing and management.
He has received a Bachelor degree from Université de Montréal, a Master degree and the PhD from McGill University (Montreal); he is Fellow of CSI (Canadian Securities Institute).
The Langford Report was published, the first time, November 1981.
