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MSGF Online Seminar: Do Women Receive Worse Financial Advice? (Aug 13, 6:30-8pm Hong Kong time)


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 Columbia University, USA. Professor Bhattacharya previously taught at Indiana, Iowa, Chicago, MIT and Duke. He has taught summers in prestigious schools in Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Russia, Turkey and UK.


Prof. Bhattacharya's research is about the dark side of financial markets. He believes, with apologies to Thomas Jefferson, that "the price of capitalism is eternal vigilance." His publications have appeared in top-tier finance journals like the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, The Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of Business, top-tier accounting journals like The Accounting Review, and top-tier economics journals like the Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Law and Economics and the Journal of Monetary Economics. His research has been featured in full-length stories more than a hundred times in various media across the world, including five times in the Economist. He wrote a satire about the legendary fraudster Madoff in the New York Times. He has been invited to present his research in more than 225 institutions in 35 countries in 5 continents.


On May 16, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission of the U.S. invited him to present the findings of his Journal of Finance paper that documents cross-subsidies in mutual fund families. He is now an official whistleblower.


Seminar Schedule

18:30 Registration 18:45 Welcome and Introduction 19:00 Presentation 20:00 Q & A 20:30 End

For RSVP, please click HERE.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Tracy Chau at msgf@ust.hk.

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