Behavioural Finance 2008: Speakers
Behavioural Finance 2008
30 Pavilion Road, London SW1 - 25 November 2008
 Roy Batchelor - Cass Business SchoolRoy Batchelor is Professor of Banking and Finance at Cass Business School, City of London. He is a Fellow and Research Professor at the CES-Ifo Institute of the University of Munich, and Visiting Professor of Finance at the British University in Dubai. Professor Batchelor’s research and teaching now focuses on economic and financial market forecasting, rationality and behavioural finance, and risk management in financial markets. He has published widely in these fields. He was Associate Editor of the International Journal of Forecasting, and is currently an Editor of the practitioner journal Foresight. Professor Batchelor has acted as economic adviser to stockbrokers Smith New Court, to the London International Financial Futures Exchange and to the World Gold Council. He has conducted research for the European Commission and the UK Treasury, prepared submissions for Parliamentary Committees, and served on the Bank of England's Panel of Academic Advisors. |
 George Bulkley - University of ExeterGeorge Bulkley is a Professor of Financial Economics at The School of Business & Economics at the University of Exeter. His research areas are the performance of financial markets, with a particular interest in earnings expectations, the econometric modeling of company earnings and the response of markets to profit warnings. He has a PhD in Economics from Berkeley and has previously taught at University of British Columbia, London School of Economics, University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide. |
 Bill Kallinterakis - Durham Business School Bill Kallinterakis is a Teaching Fellow in Finance at Durham Business School. His research interests relate to behavioural finance issues, with special focus on herding and positive feedback trading and on how these exhibit variability across different regulatory settings. |
 William Forbes - Loughborough UniversityWiliam Forbes is Professor of Accounting and Finance in the Business School at Loughborough University. He has previously worked at the Universities of Exeter, Bangor, Manchester and Glasgow. His early work was in the area of the regulation of mergers and corporate control. More recently his research has focused on market-based accounting and valuation with a particular focus on the new-economy. He teaches courses in financial accounting, valuation and financial statement analysis. Recent publications have been in Financial Management, European Financial Management and the Journal of Empirical Finance |
 Enrico De Giorgi - University of LuganoEnrico De Giorgi is Assistant Professor for Research at the Institute of Finance, University of Lugano. His research interests include behavioural finance, risk management and evolutionary finance. |
 Volker Hergert - LGT Capital ManagementVolker Hergert is senior equity strategist at LGT Capital Management. Details coming soon... |
 Stefan Rehder - BayernLBStefan Rehder is head of BayernLB's equity business. Before he joined BayernLB in 2003, he spent seven years in the US acting as a consultant for a variety of American investment funds. These included leading value-style asset managers such as Tweedy Browne, Brandes and Gabelli. In the past four years, Stefan Rehder, together with the head of the Financial Markets division Karl Filbert, has successfully introduced the value approach for research and investment advice, as advocated by the Columbia Business School, thus differentiating BayernLB from other banks in the German-speaking market. |
 Panagiotis Andrikopoulos - De Montfort UniversityPanagiotis Andrikopoulos is a Principal Lecturer in Finance at Leicester Business School, De Montfort University. His main teaching and research interests are in the area of Investment Theory and Portfolio Management, Behavioural Finance and Strategic Financial Management. He was one of the founders and main contributors in the construction of a survivorship and look-ahead biases-free database of the UK officially listed market (UK Equity Database) and is currently applying the new database in a number of joint research projects with colleagues. He is currently a member of the European Finance Association, the Southern and South-western Finance Association and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Money, Investment and Banking and the International Journal of Financial Economics and Econometrics. Recent publications have been in the European Journal of Finance and the ICFA Journal of Behavioural Finance. |