Please join Prof. Alminas Žaldokas, Associate Professor of Finance at HKUST and teaching faculty of the MSGF program, Prof. Bruno Solnik, Emeritus Professor of Finance at HKUST, and Fabrice Schloegel as they discuss the impact of TV advertising on retail investor’s trading behaviour. By analysing minute-by-minute US TV advertising data covering some 300 firms, 326,000 ads, and $20 billion in ad spending, Alminas documents a surge in investors SEC EDGAR queries and Google sear

From America to Asia, Colombian JP Morgan banker Daniel Restrepo explains how his Master in Finance from HKUST and NYU Stern has prepared him for a global career Born and raised in Colombia, it was an internship in Miami, with the private banking division of Lloyds Bank, that first took Daniel Restrepo to the United States. While there, he landed a permanent position with HSBC, before moving on to JP Morgan. Daniel always had one eye on Asia too. With a collective GDP forecas

On March 2, 2020, Nikola, an electric vehicle start-up, announced that it will pursue a listing on NASDAQ through a merger with VectoIQ Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and sports gambling company DraftKings have also gone public via SPACs. Bill Ackman has raised a $4bn SPAC to invest in a “mature unicorn”. While SPACs have been popular in the past, this form of listing the firm public has seen a comeback in 202

Watching genders at work on finance matters, right at IWD 2020 – “Do Women Receive Worse Financial Advice?”. A team of HKUST Business School researchers have put their great minds together and share their findings on this topic. Speaker Bio Professor Utpal Bhattacharya is Chair Professor at HKUST, and the Executive Editor of the journal Financial Management. He received his Bachelor of Technology at IIT, Kanpur, India; his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, India; and his Ph.D. from Co