Amid the turbulence in stock markets, retail investors continue to look for investment ideas. With thousands of publicly-traded stocks available, many retail investors often resort to their recent personal experiences when deciding on which stocks to buy or sell. Maybe a surge in video conferencing or home deliveries will prompt them to invest in companies involved in those businesses. They could even be inspired by ads they see on TV. In this seminar, Professor Žaldokas wil

Two Master’s in Finance students in Southeast Asia explain how they’re reaping the benefits of job opportunities in a fast-growing region​ Joseph Legasto is an alumni of the Master's in Global Finance from HKUST & NYU Stern Home to 700 million people, Southeast Asia is experiencing a rapid wave of growth. In Vietnam, GDP grew 3.8% in the first quarter of 2020. Indonesian GDP now exceeds $1 trillion, and Malaysia and the Philippines both boast GDPs above $300 billion. While co

As the European economies slowly recover from the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic it seems timely to ask whether the crisis will have long lasting effects on investors and financial markets. In this seminar, Professor Kasper Meisner Nielsen from Copenhagen Business School and HKUST will give an overview of investment psychology under and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Investment psychology is an area of behavioral finance, which combines insights from economics and psychol