Tom McCurdy is a professor of finance and bonham chair in international finance at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He has received best research paper and teaching awards and has been an invited keynote speaker at international conferences. One theme of his research has been developing quantitative methods for forecasting the dynamics of asset return distributions with a particular interest in measuring and managing the risk that results from the changing shape of those distributions. His articles have appeared in numerous academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. He has also co-authored more than 45 simulation cases designed to practice deriving robust strategies for decisions associated with topics in market microstructure, valuation, derivatives, commodities, portfolio and risk management.