Peter Cauwels
Peter Cauwels obtained his PhD at Ghent University in 2001, specializing in the field of environmental, radiation and nuclear physics. After that he worked 10 years in the banking industry taking up senior roles in risk and portfolio management and quantitative research. From 2011 until 2014 he was a full time senior researcher at the chair of Entrepreneurial risk at the ETH in Zurich. Currently, he combines his passion for research with his passion for investment. Since 2014, he is Managing Partner at Vermec. That is a professional family office that provides long-term capital to ambitious mid-sized enterprises and projects. Parallel to these PE/VC investments, Vermec manages a liquid portfolio of different types of assets in a broad range of sectors and geographical locations. In addition, he is associated as a guest researcher at the chair of Entrepreneurial risk at the ETH in Zurich. The mission of this group is to better understand the challenges that our society is facing using a multi-disciplinary approach mixing physics, finance, computer science and economics.
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Articles by Peter Cauwels
Real-time prediction and post-mortem analysis of the Shanghai 2015 stock market bubble and crash
This paper assesses the performance of the real-time diagnostic of the bubble regime in Chinese stock markets.