Bloomberg for Education New York Agenda

BLOOMBERG FOR EDUCATION
How to Integrate Bloomberg into Your Finance Curriculum
AGENDA // FRIDAY, JUNE 26TH, 2015
731 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022
8:00AM
Registration and Breakfast
8:30AM
Welcome Address
– Sarah Yango, Global Head of University Sales, Bloomberg Institute
8:45AM
Bloomberg 101
– Robert H Scott III, Associate Professor of Economics, Monmouth University, NJ
9:30AM
Using Bloomberg in a Security Analysis and Portfolio Management Course
– Adam Lei, Bridwell Distinguished Professor of Finance, Midwestern State University, TX
10:15AM
Coffee Break
10:30AM
Bloomberg as a Chem Lab for Finance Class
– Paul Laux, Professor of Finance, University of Delaware, DE
11:15AM
Bloomberg for Academic Research
– Rusty Yerkes, Professor of Finance, Samford University, AL
12:00PM
Lunch
12:45PM
How to Integrate Bloomberg onto your Syllabus
– Rob Langrick, Head, Bloomberg Institute
1:30PM
Bloomberg for Portfolio Management
– David Allen, Associate Professor of Finance, Northern Arizona University, AZ
2:15PM
Tales from a Bloomberg missionary
– Dr. R Stafford Johnson, Professor of Finance, Xavier University, OH
3:00PM
Closing Remarks
For questions about this event, please contact Blair Wilkie at [email protected].
*Agenda is subject to change
FEATURED SPEAKERS
SARAH YANGO has been with Bloomberg since 2003. Over her 12 years with the firm, Sarah has held
many different positions at the firm including Analytics, Terminal Sales, Recruitment, Operations and
Marketing. Sarah currently manages Global University Relations for Bloomberg Institute, the educational
division of Bloomberg. Sarah holds a BA from Columbia University in Economics and is based in San
Francisco.
ROBERT H. SCOTT III, PH.D. is Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at Monmouth
University. He has published articles on topics such as credit cards, consumer debt, bankruptcy reform
and financial literacy. In 2009 he received a grant from the Kauffman Foundation to study the effects of
different financing strategies on the success of new small businesses. He is on the editorial board of the
Journal of Economic Issues. His work has been featured in the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle,
National Journal, Star-Ledger, Cincinnati Enquirer, Entrepreneurship.org, Yahoo! News, and Bloomberg
BusinessWeek.
DR. ADAM Y.C. LEI, CFA, PH.D. is the Bridwell Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Dillard
College of Business Administration, Midwestern State University. Dr. Lei has taught at Louisiana State
University prior to joining Midwestern State University in 2005. He received his Ph.D. and MS degrees in
finance from Louisiana State University, MBA degree from National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan,
and bachelor degree in industrial management from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He also
holds the CFA designation since 2009. Dr. Lei’s research interests include investments, market
efficiency, and market microstructure. He has published in academic journals including the Journal of
Banking and Finance, Managerial Finance, Financial Services Review, and the Journal of Economics
and Finance Education.
PAUL LAUX is Professor of Finance in the Lerner College of Business and Economics and J.P. Morgan
Chase Faculty Scholar in the Institute for Financial Services Analytics at the University of Delaware. For
the past four years he has also held a secondary faculty appointment at Lisbon University Institute in
Portugal as Professor Catedrático Convidado. He earned the Ph.D. degree from Vanderbilt University,
and has previously served on the finance faculties of The University of Texas and Case Western Reserve
University. He has also served on the Law School faculty at Case Western, as an economist at the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as Finance Department Chairperson at the University of
Delaware, and as MBA Program Director at Case Western Reserve University. His research interests are
in the areas of corporate finance, corporate governance, and financial markets. His research has
appeared in The Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of
Financial Intermediation, the Financial Analysts Journal, and Financial Management, among others.
Professor Laux has taught finance extensively in developing European countries (Bosnia, Hungary, and
Portugal), and has been the recipient of two Fulbright grants. His consulting work has served clients such
as the Nasdaq Stock Market, the Sydney Futures Exchange, Equiserve, the Chicago Stock Exchange,
and a large currency and interest rate risk management consultancy.
RUSTY YERKES is Assistant Professor of Finance with Samford University’s Brock School of Business
where he teaches MBA and undergraduate finance courses. His research interests are in corporate
governance and securities regulation. Prior to joining Samford, he was Assistant Professor of Finance at
Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received a PhD in Finance from the University of
Alabama, MBA in Finance from Auburn University Montgomery, and BS in Economics and Operations
Research from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO. He served on active duty from until
2001 where he worked in supply chain management and as Assistant Professor of Economics at the
U.S. Air Force Academy. Following active duty service, he worked as a portfolio manager with a
Birmingham, AL based registered investment adviser. While there he managed portfolios for trust, non-‐profit, foundation, endowment, pension, and high net worth clients and served as chairman of the asset
allocation committee and a member of the investment strategy committee. Rusty holds the Chartered
Financial Analyst(CFA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM), Certified Financial Planner(CFP), and Certified
Treasury Professional(CTP) designations and serves on the board of the CFA Society of Alabama and
the Alabama Association for Financial Professionals. Rusty is married with three daughters and enjoys
all things soccer.
ROB LANGRICK is the Head of Bloomberg Institute and designer of the Bloomberg Market Concepts
module. He began his career as a banker at Morgan Stanley and an Equity Analyst at HSBC and
Cazenove in London. He moved to the US in 2004 for business school and joined Bloomberg after three
years as a Case Team Leader at Bain & Co in New York. He founded and wrote the business plan for
Bloomberg Institute in 2009. He holds a Law degree from The University of Nottingham, an MBA from
the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and is a CFA charter holder.
DAVID ALLEN, PH.D., is an Associate Professor of Finance at Northern Arizona University, where he
has taught since 1988. He is a leading innovator in bringing technology into the classroom and has
made numerous presentations on the topic at the Financial Education Association’s annual conference.
He oversees the Student Managed Investment Fund at the W. A. Franke College of Business, which
currently manages a $2 million portfolio for the NAU Foundation.
R. STAFFORD JOHNSON is Professor of Finance at the Williams College of Business, Xavier
University. He is the author of six books: Options and Futures, Introduction to Derivatives, two editions of
Bond Evaluation, Selection, and Management, Debt Markets and Analysis, and Equity Markets and
Portfolio Analysis. He has also authored or co-authored over 50 academic articles. His Equity Markets
and Portfolio Analysis and Debt Markets and Analysis texts are core equity and fixed-income investment
books that cover extensively the functionality of Bloomberg terminals and its applicability to investments.