THE FINANCELAB INVESTOR SERIES IS HERE!

March 28: Lasse Heje Pedersen (Quantitative Investing)

April 26: Jørgen Chidekel (Value Investing)

May 5: Mads Faurholt and Lars Tvede (Venture Capital)

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Lasse Heje Pedersen is both a distinguished academic and an asset manager.

As a finance professor at Copenhagen Business School and NYU Stern School of Business, he has published a number of influential academic papers on liquidity risk, asset prices, and trading strategies. His research has been cited by Ben Bernanke and other central bank governors around the world, by leading asset managers, and in thousands of academic and industry papers. He has won a number of awards, most notably the Bernácer Prize for the best European economist under 40 years of age and the DKK 1,2 million EliteForsk Prize.

Lasse has applied his research as a principal at AQR Capital Management, a global asset manager with more than $175 billion of assets across its hedge funds and long-only investments.

In Addition to his experience at AQR and academia, Lasse has served in the Liquidity Working Group meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to address liquidity issues during the financial crisis, the New York Fed’s Monetary Policy Panel and the Economic Advisory Boards of NASDAQ & FTSE. Lasse received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Copenhagen and his Ph.D. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Program:

1) Introduction

2) AQR Capital Management

3) Investment Philosophy

4) Q/A

Location: CBS Solbjerg Plads, SP202