Finance Department

News Archive

July 2006

Professor Ping He’s paper “Asset Prices when Agents are Marked to Market,” co-authored with Gary Groton and Lixin Huang, was presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Boston.

Professor Hefei Wang presented "A re-examination of the performance of underwriter analyst recommendations" at the 2006 China International Conference in Finance in Xi'an, China. The research was joint work with Somnath Das.

Professor Re-Jin Guo was invited to present “Undoing the Powerful Anti-Takeover Force of Staggered Boards” at the 2006 China International Conference in Finance in Xi'an, China.

Professor Lan Zhang was an invited speaker at the 2006 International Symposium on Financial Engineering and Risk Management in Xiamen, China.

June 2006

The Chicago Tribune featured Finance Graduate Jivko Chiderov in a article profiling 2006 graduates

Gib Bassett has been invited to talk at, The Workshop on Quantile Regression, LMS and Robust Statistics in the 21st Century, 19-23 June 2006, The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh.

Re-Jin Guo will be a discussant at the, Financial Intermediation Research Society Conference on Banking, Corporate Finance and Intermediation, in Shanghai, and serve as a discussant for the program

May 2006

UIC Finance-Portfolio Management Students will present "Investment Strategy and Portfolio Performance" on May 1, 2006, 3:30-4:30, SCE Room #713.The presentations will be attended by an investment committee and guests from industry. For details contact at wku1@uic.edu

Hsiu-Lang Chen is an invited panelist at, "Key Issues Facing Investment Management", The Directors Roundtable, May 3, 2006, Chicago.

Jae Sung has been invited to present a talk at the Workshop on Mathematical Finance and Insurance, May 27-June 3, 2006, in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China.

April 2006

Lan Zhang is an invited speaker at the CIREQ Conference on Realized Volatility, Montreal, Canada, April 22 - 23, 2006.

March 2006

Finance students and officers of the Collegiate Finance Organization, Christine Dimoulis, Rushi Shah, Karl Behrens, and Tiffany Clarito attended the Sixth Annual Global Student Investment Forum, March 30 - April 1, 2006 at the University of Dayton. The forum brings leading students, faculty, and Wall Street experts together in an interactive learning environment to discuss range of pertinent issues facing tomorrow's leaders in the financial services industry. Check out the great photos from the event: Photo1 Photo2

December 2005

UIC Finance-Portfolio Management Students present "Investment Strategy and Portfolio Performance" on December 8, 10:30-12:20, SCE Room #713.The presentations will be attended by an investment committee and guests from industry. Lunch will follow the presentations. For details contact the instructor, Wendy Ku at wku1@uic.edu.

November 2005

Professor ReJin Guo presented "Undoing the Powerful Anti-Takeover Force of Staggered Board" at the International Conference on Corporate Governance at Fu-Jen University in Taiwan on November 3, 2005. The paper is joint work with Tim Kruse and Tom Nohel at the University of Arkansas and Loyola University, respectively.

October 2005

Professors Xiaoqing Hu will present "Do Investors Diversify over Time?" on October 15 at the Financial Management Association Meeting in Chicago.

Prof. Re jin Guo will present "Self-Selection in Decision to Withdraw IPOs" at the at the Financial Management Association Meeting. The paper is a joint work with Rong Chen and Ming Lin.

September 2005

Oleg Bondarenko is an invited speaker at the IXIS/NYU Stern Banking Conference Series on Hedge Funds, September 30, 2005. He will be presenting, "The Market Price of Variance Risk and Performance of Hedge Funds".

Mathematical Finance, whose founding editor was Stan Pliska, has been ranked the third most influential journal in Finance

The journal was also ranked #12 in a list of 172 journals in Economics. In addition to founding the journal, Prof. Pliska served as its chief editor until 2001.

July 2005

Stan Pliska will be the keynote speaker at the Brazilian Finance Association conference, July 18-19, in Sao Paulo.

May 2005

Prof. Re-Jin Guo presented, "Self-Selection in Decision to Withdraw IPOs", at the Third NTU International Conference on Economics, Finance and Accounting, National Taiwan University, May 19-21, 2005. The paper, a joint work with Rong Chen and Ming Lin, received the "Best Paper Award" from the Conference.

From early May to the mid-July, Stan Pliska will be the Rothschild Visiting Professor at Cambridge University, England. This appointment will be in conjunction with the Developments in Quantitative Finance" program at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Prof. Hsiu-lang Chen will present " Mutual Fund Performance, Style, Behavior, and Investment Strategies" on May 26th at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan.

April 2005

Wendy Ku's Investments class will host Rich Apostolik, President of the Global Association for Risk Managers (GARP), April 19, 2005.

Gib Bassett is presenting, Risk, Regression and Rockafellar, at The Conference on Risk Management and Quantitative Approaches in Finance, in Gainesville, Florida, April 6-8 2005.

Prof. Jae Sung's Investments class FIN 500 has been recognized as Crain's one of the "In a Class by Themselves" courses see page 35. It is one of only five courses from MBA programs in Chicago that are "the most difficult yet grudgingly admired classes in the curriculum".

March 2005

Hsiu-lang Chen and Russell Wermers had their paper, "Style Migration and the Cross-Section of Average Stock Returns", presented at the spring conference of INQUIRE UK and Europe held in Dublin, Ireland, on March 13-15, 2005.

The Chicago Exchanges 2005, a Professional Topics class for MBA students, will be meeting in March and April. The class feature presentations by leaders of the exchanges in Chicago including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Archipelago, Eurex, Euronext-Liffe, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and the Chicago Board of Trade. Contact Gib Bassett for additional information

February 2005

J.B. Kurish was interviewed by Bloomberg News, February 24, 2005 for their story on municipal bonds.

Re-Jin Guo presents, "Analysts' Selective Coverage and Subsequent Performance of Newly Public Firms" at the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) in Washington on February 8, 2004. The paper is joint work with Accounting Professor Somnath Das and Huai Zhang.

December 2004

Re-Jin Guo will present the paper, Analysts' Selective Coverage and Long-term Performance of Newly Public Firms at the 2004 National Taiwan University International Conference in December 2004. Her co-authors are Somnath Das and Huai Zhang. The paper received the outstanding paper award from the conference.

July 2004

Stan Pliska is the Organizer of the Third Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society meeting July 21-24 in Chicago. The Bachelier Society is an international organization of scholars in Mathematical Finance. The Congress is the premier international event in Mathematical Finance for 2004. The Society meets every two years, most recently in Crete in 2002. This year's conference will take place from Wednesday, July 21st until Saturday, July 24th, with a closing dinner at the Inter Continental Hotel.

June 2004

UIC's Finance department will team with experts from the International Monetary Fund in Washington and the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, as well as Citigroup New York, Morgan Stanley China and KPMG Beijing to offer two weeks of lectures and hands-on training for China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE). The visit by thirty officials from SAFE anticipates the opening of China's financial markets to foreign investors. With one of the largest MBA programs for Chinese government and private enterprise managers, UIC enjoys entrée to Beijing that facilitates connections with Chicago businesses and Exchanges. The China State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) delegation will be in Chicago through July 2, 2004.