About

I’m Vittorio Iacovoni. I’m pursuing a dual degree in finance: an M.Sc. in Economics, Management & Governance at LIUC, majoring in Banking & Finance, and an M.S. in Financial Technology & Analytics at Stevens Institute of Technology, within the Quantitative Finance and Financial Engineering program.

I strongly believe in applying quantitative methods to finance. A quantitative model forces you to make your assumptions explicit: what you are estimating, with which data, and where the result stops holding. I saw this firsthand at PwC, where every number has to be reconciled and documented before it can be validated.

That, together with a personal curiosity for the subject, is why I build projects in Python and SQL and models in Excel: portfolio optimization, option pricing, simulation and backtesting. I use them to understand methods from the inside and to learn where they break, because every model is wrong, and the best model is the one that brings us closest to reality.

What drives me is boundless curiosity, and I try to put it to work outside the classroom. During my university years I co-founded the Starting Finance Club LIUC, which grew to 90+ students thanks to the hard work of the whole board. Since November 2025 I have represented LIUC students on the Academic Council. In April 2026 I spoke at the Festival della Finanza per l’Economia Reale on M&A, Italian public markets and private banking, alongside professionals from JPMorgan, Equita SIM and Assolombarda.

The areas I follow most closely are AI applied to finance, quantitative models, asset management and risk management.