Knowledge. Shared seminar with Dr Myron Scholes
Knowledge. Shared seminar is a joint event hosted by the Centre and our industry partner Janus Henderson Investors, which is a global investment management company dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Australian Securities Exchange. During the seminar, Professor Scholes shared his global perspective to modern asset allocation and portfolio construction challenges. He also discussed drawdown management, dynamic risk management and return enhancement solutions.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Monday 14 May 2018
Time: 11.45am - 2pm
Venue: River room, Stamford Plaza Brisbane
Keynote Speaker
Dr Myron Scholes is the Chief Investment Strategist at Janus Henderson Investors. In this role, he leads the firm’s evolving asset allocation product development efforts and partners with the investment team contributing macro insights and quantitative analysis specific to hedging, risk management and disciplined portfolio construction. Among his many accomplishments, Dr Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where each year he continues to teach a course on Managing Under Uncertainty and The Evolution of Finance. He is a member of the Econometric Society and served as President of the American Finance Association in 1990. He is widely known for his seminal work in options pricing, capital market equilibrium, tax policies and the financial services industry. Dr Scholes is a Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences and co-originator of the Black-Scholes options pricing model for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1997. He is a director of Dimensional Fund Advisors mutual funds and several other private companies and has served as an advisor to the Guangdong Provincial Government in China.
Event video
Acclaimed financial economist and Nobel laureate Dr Myron Scholes has imparted investment wisdom accrued over a decorated 50-year career at a seminar held in Brisbane by Griffith University and Janus Henderson Investors on 14 May 2018.