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Seung-Mook Choi
Professor/University of Nevada
Ph.D. in Economics, (fields: Financial Economics, Econometrics) University of Texas at Austin, Fall 1986
M.A. in Mathematics (field: Mathematical Statistics), University of Texas at Austin, Spring 1984
B.A. in Economics, Korea University, Spring 1978
Investment Analysis: Risk Management, Derivative Securities
Term Structure of interest rates
Econometric and Time Series Issues in Economics and Finance
Risk Management, Derivative Securities, Investments
Professor of Finance, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Fall 2004 to present
Department Chair, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, Fall 1999 to Spring 2004
Department Interim Chair, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, Fall 1998 to Spring 1999
Assistant to the Dean, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, Spring 1999 to Spring 2001
Associate Professor of Finance, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, Fall 95 to present
Assistant Professor of Finance, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, Fall 91 to Spring 95
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, Fall 89-Spring 91.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha, Fall 86 to Spring 89.
Research Associate, Bureau of Business Research, Univ. of Texas at Austin, 81-86
Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 84 to Spring 85.
Researcher, Korea International Economic Institute,78-80 | |
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Guan Ong
Principal/Blue Rice Investment Management
Guan is the Principal of Blue Rice Investment Management, an absolute return Asian credit fund set up to seek investment opportunities in Asia.
Prior to setting up Blue Rice, Guan was the Chief Investment Officer (2006-09) of Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), Korea’s sovereign wealth fund with total assets of US$25bn. Prior to joining KIC, Guan served as the CEO and CIO of Prudential Asset Management Co. in Korea (2004-06) with total assets of US$12bn. He joined Prudential Financial in Hong Kong as an Asian Fixed Income portfolio manager in 1998 and started Prudential’s Singapore office in 2000, where he was responsible for developing a team that focuses on research and trading in Asian Fixed Income credits.
Guan began his career in 1990 with Credit Suisse First Boston (London). He was involved with CSFB’s role as the financial advisor to the Kingdom of Sweden in the evaluation and restructuring of Swedish banks during its banking crisis of 1993/94. In addition, he was responsible for structuring mortgage and asset-backed products for CSFB before focusing on Asian corporate credits in 1995. In 1996, he moved to Hong Kong to join Lehman Brothers, where he was responsible for corporate credit research and where he worked with Lehman’s Asian proprietary distressed asset team.
Guan was voted by The Asset Magazine as the most astute manager in Asia dollar bonds for four years running (2001-2004). In 2005, he received the Asian Investor award for managing the turnaround of Prudential’s acquisition in Korea. He graduated from Imperial College, London in 1986 with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. | |
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Norihiko Nishino
Country Head & CEO/Nomura Financial Investment Korea
March 1984 Doshisha University, Japan
Commercial Science
April 1984 Joined the Daiwa Bank
February 1987 The Daiwa Bank, London
Trainee / Foreign Exchange, Treasury Department
February 1990 The Daiwa Bank, Tokyo
Foreign Exchange Trading / International Treasury Department
August 1993 The Nomura Trust and Banking Co, Ltd.
Foreign Exchange, Treasury Department
July 1998 The Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Head of Foreign Exchange, Debt Markets Division
July 2000 Nomura International plc, London
Head of Foreign Exchange, Managing Director, Fixed Income Division
July 2004 Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. Seoul Branch
Branch Manager & Chief Executive
June 2005 Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited, Seoul Branch
Managing Director & Branch Manager
May 2010 Nomura Financial Investment (Korea) Co., Ltd.
CEO & Country Head | |
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Edward J. Rogers
CEO & CIO/Rogers Investment Advisors
Mr. Rogers is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Rogers Investment Advisors, which is the research arm of Wolver Hill Asset Management and Wolver Hill Advisors, LLC. Wolver Hill is a specialist in performing intensive hedge fund due diligence and manages Asian hedge fund strategies for fund of hedge funds and private equity funds. Rogers Investment Advisors currently has advisory assets under management of approximately $130 million.
Mr. Rogers has over 20 years experience in Asia and financial services. Prior to launching Rogers Investment Advisors, Mr. Rogers was a member of Deutsche Bank Tokyo’s Equities Management Committee and Head of Prime Services sales for Japan. Mr. Rogers previously worked as a proprietary trader at Merrill Lynch in London, specializing in yield enhancement and corporate action arbitrage trades and also spent eight years in foreign exchange trading at M. W. Marshall in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Mr. Roger’s Asian career began in 1987 when he was awarded a Princeton in Asia Fellowship for Japan and worked for two years at NKK, the then second largest steel company in Japan. Mr. Rogers is Vice-Chairman of the Alternative Investment Management Association Chukan Hojin (Japan) and serves on the AIMA Executive Committee for Japan.\
Mr. Rogers received a BA in History from Princeton University and an MBA from Georgetown University. | |
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Bernard Lock
Director & Head of AP/FX Concepts
Bernard Lock runs FX Concepts Singapore Office and is in charge of the firm’s business in Asia. The New York based Currency Manager & Research Firm was founded in 1981 and has been specialized in FX programs for both risk-hedge overlay and alpha generation. The firm is currently the world largest Currency Manager in term of AUM, which exceeds USD 8 billion.
Prior to joining FX Concepts since 2002, Bernard Lock had actively traded in foreign exchange and derivatives markets as a senior trader in leading banks for 20 years. Mr. Lock was the Chief Dealer of Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi Hong Kong from 1990-1994 and of BNP Paribas Singapore from 1994-1997. He was in charge of Emerging Market currencies & FX Option trading for HSBC Singapore between1997-2002.
Mr. Lock majored in Finance & Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained his Executive MBA Degree from Birmingham Business School of UK. He is both a Chartered Financial Analyst with CFA Institute and a qualified Financial Risk Manager (FRM) with GARP. | |
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Madhu Veeraraghavan
Professor/Monash University
Professor Madhu Veeraraghavan joined the Department of Accounting and Finance, Monash University in March 2005. Prior to this he was a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Accounting and Finance, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has also held teaching positions at Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus. His teaching areas are Corporate Finance, Capital Markets and Investments. His major research interests are in the areas of Asset pricing, Behavioural finance, Corporate finance, Corporate governance and Evaluation of portfolio performance. Professor Veeraraghavan is an active researcher and research supervisor in these areas. He has published over 30 refereed articles in international journals and has presented his work in leading accounting and finance conferences. Professor Veeraraghavan is the Head of Finance Discipline.
Research: Asset Pricing (Empirical and Theoretical)
Behavioural Finance
Corporate Governance
Evaluation of Mutual Fund and Hedge Fund Managers
Teaching: AFF5180 Research dissertation (full year) | |
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Jin-Chuan Duan
Professor/National University of Singapore
Duan is the Director of Risk Management Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and concurrently holds the Cycle & Carriage Professorship in Finance at the NUS Business School. He is also an Academician of Academia Sinica. Duan completed his undergraduate education at the National Taiwan University, an MBA from the State University of New York at Albany and a PhD in Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in financial engineering and risk management, and is known for his work on the GARCH option pricing model. He has authored numerous scholarly publications on derivative securities and risk management, and written a book and occasional media commentaries on current financial/economic events. Before joining the NUS, Duan held the Manulife Chair Professorship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and also once taught at the Hong Kong University Science and Technology and McGill University. Duan is spearheading a non-profit credit rating initiative launched in 2009, which pioneers a “public good “approach to credit rating reform via a Wiki-style model development undertaking. The initiative currently provides daily updated default forecasts for over 28,000 listed firms in 30 economies in Asia, North America and Europe | |
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Andrew Suh
Managing Director/RBS HK
Mr. Andrew Suh is the Managing Director and Head equity derivatives and structured retail sales Korea at Global Banking & Markets Division at RBS Hong Kong. Mr. Suh has over 19 years of experience in the banking and financial sector, with expertise in derivatives products sales and structuring. He joined the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2009 after the bankruptcy of Bear Stearns where he worked as Senior Managing Director of Structured Equity Products sales in Bear Stearns Asia Limited, Hong Kong. He was one of Asia Management Committee members at Bear Stearns Asia Limited. Previously, he was a director of structured product sales at Citigroup Global Markets(CGM) in Hong Kong, responsible for all CGM’s equity-linked product distribution to institutional & retail banking clients. Prior to that, he was a director of strategic solution group at Merrill Lynch Asia Limited in Hong Kong where he was responsible for distributing all asset classes of derivatives products to financial institutions. In ‘90s, he worked in Bankers Trust, focusing on investment banking and capital market origination. Mr. Suh graduated with BA in Economics and a Master of Business Administration, majoring in financial management, from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
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Paget Charles Dare Bryan
Partner/Clifford Chance HK
Partner at Clifford Chance (Hong Kong) and heads the derivatives and structured products practice in Asia. Admitted in England and Wales. Foreign Legal Consultant in Hong Kong.
Specialises in derivatives and other financial market products including repackagings, credit and equity linked notes, collateralised debt obligations (CDOs), CLOs, constant proportion portfolio insurance ("CPPI"), warrants, securities lending and repos. Has extensive experience of structured transactions, credit derivatives, equity derivatives, commodity derivatives, specialist debt securities and rating issues. He also advises on credit risk management, custody, collateral and netting issues and regularly speaks on Asian and PRC derivatives issues. | |
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William Pesek
Columnist/Bloomberg News
William Pesek Jr. is Asia-Pacific columnist for Bloomberg News, based in Tokyo, providing opinions and commentary on economics, business, markets and politics throughout the region.
Pesek's columns routinely appear in the International Herald Tribune, The Australian, The Straits Times, The Japan Times and many other publications around Asia and the globe. He writes a monthly column for Bloomberg Markets magazine and is a regular on Bloomberg Television.
He's worked previously as a columnist for Barron's, the Dow
Jones weekly magazine, in Washington D.C., writing about global economics, politics and markets. Much of his time was spent following Alan Greenspan, U.S. Treasury, International Monetary Fund and World Bank officials around the globe. He's also worked for Dow Jones in New York, where he wrote the daily credit markets column for The Wall Street Journal for three years in the mid-1990s, and the American Banker newspaper.
He has a Bachelors degree in business journalism from Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York. | |
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Xian-Feng Ma
Director/Research Center, China Securities Regulatory Commission
Dr. Ma Xianfeng is the Director of Research Center, CSRC since February 2009. He joined the China Securities Regulation Commission in 1998. He was the Director of the International Research Division of Policy Research Office of CSRC in April 2001. He served as a member of Strategy & Planning Committee of CSRC from August 2002 to August 2004. He served as Chief Economist of Dalian Commodity Exchange and Senior Director from August 2004 to February 2009. He also worked as a secondment for the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom from August 2002 to February 2003. He has been taking part in making several strategic policies for promoting the reform and development of China capital markets.
Prior to joining the CSRC, Dr. Ma Xianfeng served as post-doctor in the Economics School of Peking University for two years. He received his Doctor degree with honors from the Economics Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. | |
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Robert Bucky Isaacson
President/Future Funding Consultants
Robert Bucky Isaacson is the President of Future Funding Consultants. The firm specializes in consulting on finance and investments. The clientel is diverse and includes companies in Europe and Asia. Bucky was one of the original founders of the Managed Funds Association in 1980. The Association is the principle group representing hedge funds and CTA’s in the US. He was also an original member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the National Futures association and served on them for over a decade. He is a principle in CTAEXPO LLC. CTA EXPO is the leader in conferences regarding emerging managers and puts onmeetings in Europe and the US. He serves on several Boards of Directors. Bucky graduated from Michigan State University with honors. | |
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Michael Dubin
Managing Director/Silvercrest Asset Management
Currently heads up the alternatives group within Silvercrest and has over 25 years of hedge fund experience. His work with currency and commodity traders goes back to the 1970’s. Previously, as a Partner in Powers & Dubin for over 15 years, he developed their expertise in hedge fund-of-funds, with a niche specialization in managing customized portfolios of commodity trading advisors. Prior to that, for nearly a decade in the 1980’s, he served as President of both Morgan Stanley/GFTA and GFTA Services, which was the equivalent of a macro/currency hedge fund and advisory firm, and marketed sophisticated multi-billion dollar currency risk management systems for major institutions worldwide. Earlier, he headed up the International Financial Advisory Service at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., advising the Treasurers of the Fortune 500 companies on currency risk management systems, as well as monitoring currency traders. He is the author of the book, Foreign Acquisitions and the Growth of the Multi-National Firm, and lectures frequently on alternative investments and financial markets issues at conferences and business schools. He is a past Member of the World Gold Counsel and held Memberships in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and NFA. He has a Doctorate of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School in International Finance and a BA from Yale University in Biophysics and Molecular Biochemistry. He serves on the Endowment Committee of the Town School, where was a Trustee and Treasurer for over a decade, and also serves as Director and Treasurer of PlaNet Finance Corp., a non-profit in global microfinance. | |
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Jonathan Barker
Partner/Thomvest
Jonathan Barker is a Venture Partner with Thomvest Ventures. Jonathan's diverse background includes managing the China subsidiaries of two Fortune 500 companies: Commercial Metals Company and EchoStar Communications Corporation; co-founding a Silicon Valley-based video search technology company as well as developing strategic marketing and distribution plans, structuring and negotiating financial and commercial transactions, and carrying out due diligence for more than two dozen multinational companies and investment banks both in China and the US, including: Serious Materials, Skyline Solar, CalStar Cement, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, Micron Electronics, Centigram Communications, NetFRAME Systems, WebTV Networks, SyQUEST, Electric Power Research Institute and Kaiser Aluminum &Chemical Corp. Jonathan holds a Master's degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a Bachelor's degree in Chinese from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a student at Nanjing University in 1985. | |
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Charles E. Johnson
Founder and managing director/Tano Capital
Mr. Charles E. Johnson is founder and managing director of Tano Capital, LLC., a global alternative investment firm.Mr. Johnson is the former co-president of Franklin Templeton Investments, one of the largest publicly traded money management firms in the world. Mr. Johnson's responsibilities included global oversight of all portfolio management, information technology, product development, mergers and acquisitions and non-U.S. business. Prior to this, Mr. Johnson served as president and CEO of Templeton Worldwide Inc. Mr. Johnson received a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University Graduate School of Business in 1985, and a Bachelor of Science degree from UCLA in 1979. Mr. Johnson is also certified as a CPA by the California State Board of Accountancy. | |
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John C. Howe
President/Patriot Group
Mr. Howe founded Old Hill Partners in 1996 and The Patriot Group in 2002. The Patriot Group is an asset-based lender which shares offices with Old Hill Partners in Darien, Connecticut. Prior to founding Old Hill Partners, Mr. Howe was a Managing Director at Nomura Securities in New York from 1990 to 1995 where he oversaw the $40 billion Government Business Unit, which included U.S. Treasury and Agency trading, Repo and Money Markets as well as the Canadian Fixed Income operations. Prior to joining Nomura, Mr. Howe was a Partner and Senior Vice President at Kidder Peabody, where he managed and traded fixed income securities for seven years. Mr. Howe received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University after graduating from Middlesex School in Concord, MA. He also holds a graduate degree from Columbia University (with a specialization in international business). He was a Captain in the United States Army, serving ten years in both an active and reserve capacity. | |
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Noriaki Hirazumi
Head of Korean Sales/Winton Capital
Noriaki Hirazumi joined Winton Capital’s Far East Business Development Team in 2009 and became head of Korean Sales in 2010. His focus is on Korean institutional business including state-owned investment funds, financial endowments, pension funds and institutional distributors.
Born in Kyushu Island in south west Japan Noriaki read economics at Gakushuin University in Tokyo. After graduation he moved to England to earn a Masters degree in International relations from Nottingham University before going on to further study at London School of Economics and Political Science. After a spell at Nichimen, a Japanese Trading House in 2000 he joined Mitsubishi Corporation’s commodity futures trading division in London as an account executive looking after Korean and Japanese sales. | |
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Hee-Jin Noh
Senior research fellow/Korea Capital Market Institute(KCMI)
Dr. Hee Jin Noh is a senior research fellow of Korea Capital Market Institute(KCMI) and currently works as a visiting scholar to CASS(Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). Since 2006, he has been in charge of the Green Finance Research Unit( renamed from SRI unit). He had participated in various projects such as designing Capital Market Integration Act and adopting International Financial Reporting Standards. He headed the Korean MOFE T/F on Hedge Funds in 2007 and FSC T/F on Private Fund in 2010 . He has been in charge of the project developing green finance supported by Green Growth Committee of Korean Government and participated in G-20 T/F supported by Ministry of Strategy and Finance. Currently, he is also a member of Presidential Green Growth Committee and announced as one of most influential 25 people to Asian hedge fund industry by Asian Investor in 2010.
He received his Ph.D in Banking and Finance from the University of Georgia in 1990. During the period of 1978-1986 and 1991, he had worked for the Korea Development Bank(KDB). Since then, he had worked seven years for KDB’s securities companies in New York and in Seoul. In 1998, he moved to KCMI as a research fellow.
He is interested in the versatile issues of financial industry including optimal regulations in the financial industry, self-regulation, green finance, hedge fund, SRI fund, ETF, CSR, and risk management of securities companies. His recent works include “ Global emission market and domestic introduction”, “CSR and green finance” “How to permit domestic hedge funds?” “ Strategy of Developing Green Finance” “Text Book of Green Finance” | |
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Cameron Kim
Consultant, Board of Executives/CMC Markets PLC
2000 – 2001 University of Cambridge - Graduate Studies Economics
1995 – 1999 Central Saint Martins College of Art - Fine Art
2010 - Present CMC Markets PLC - Consultant, Board of Executives
2010 - Present Black Castle Asset Management - Vice President
2009 - 2010 MIG Bank SA - Senior Client Relations Executive
2002 - 2009 B.L. & Associates LLC - Vice President
2001 - 2002 ING Barings - Analyst | |
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William T. Mills, III
Principal/Highland Associates
Bill has been married for 39 years and has two daughters. After graduating from the University of Louisville with a degree in finance he worked as a CFO in various healthcare systems.
In 1986 he co-founded Highland Associates. Highland is a prominent, investment consulting firm specializing in serving not-for-profit healthcare systems. In 2004 he co-founded Highland Good Streward Management, a fund manager for a series of responsible investment products. Highland is a member of ICCR, UNPRI, Eurosif, and the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA). Bill is a member of the Consulting Board of the RI Academy, a board member of the Isaiah Fund, and a member of the Client Advisory Board of Hermes Equity Ownership Services. He is also a member of the Working Group on the PRI Workstream on Hedge Funds and a member of the Working Group on the PRI Work Stream on Fixed Income. | |
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Calvin Ho
Managing Director/JP Morgan Alternative Asset Management, Asia Pacific & Japan
Calvin Ho is responsible for the firm’s Fund of Hedge Fund business and clients’ portfolios in Asia Pacific and Japan. An investment manager and researcher by training, Cal lived and worked in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and Geneva, while serving as the US and Latin American Equity Research Head, Asian Research Head, Voting Member of MSCI Index Committee at Morgan Stanely (MSCIBARRA), Senior Investment Manager & Asia IC Member at Citigroup Asset Management , and the Global Business Head of SAIL Advisors. Cal is a CFA and a graduated of the National University of Singapore. | |
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Po-Lam Pong
Managing Director/Pegasus Fund Managers Ltd
Mr. Pong is a graduate of the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a B.Sc. and a MBA degree. He is CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERCM certificant and fellow of The Hong Kong Institute of Directors. He was granted a “World Outstanding Chinese Award” by “World Outstanding Chinese Association” in 2006, and “Capital Leaders of Excellence 2007 Awards”.
Mr. Pong has very solid experience in traditional funds, hedge funds and venture capital. Mr Pong is a regular contributor on financial/investment issues to the Taiwan Economic Daily News, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Capital Magazine and author of a number of books on investment. He has always invited as a guest speakers for financial training courses and investors’ education in PRC, HK, Taiwan and other Asian regions. He has made many financial comments as to when and where to invest in many occasions and in many leading newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong and Mainland China, TV and radio programs in the Asian region and is a regular guest presenter of RTHK, Commercial Radio and FM Select. Mr Pong is always willing to provide training to fund industry professionals and is an instructor of the Hong Kong Securities Institute. In 2000, Mr Pong was invited as a speaker for MPF. In 2001, he was invited by the University of Hong Kong to join the Vice President of Moody’s to hold seminars in Hong Kong, Macau & Shanghai for the SPACE Executive Programme, to assess the Sovereign & Corporate Credit Risk in Greater China. In 2005 – 06, Mr Pong has been invited as one of guest speakers for “Investors’ Education Programmes” with an excellent responses which has been co-organized by SFC/Open University. Moreover, he has provided training to the banks in PRC and international financial institutes recently. | |
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Hiroki Yagi
Senior Fund Analyst, Team Leader-Hedge Fund, Multi-Asset Analysis Department/Nomura Funds Research and Technologies
Hiroki Yagi is a Senior Fund Analyst in Nomura Funds Research and Technologies Co., Ltd(NFR&T) and responsible for evaluating alternative investment products. Before joining NFR&T, he was a Senior Fund Analyst in Nomura Funds Research and Technologies America (NFR&TA) located in New York and responsible for hedge fund research. Before joining NFR&TA, he worked in the Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd from April 2003 and was in charge of product planning , due diligence, and monitoring for alternative investment products. Before joining the Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd, he worked in Mizuho Securities from October 2000 and was in charge of product planning, due diligence, monitoring, and marketing for alternative investment products. Before working in Mizuho Securities, he worked in the Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank from April 1996 and was responsible for financing in a branch office, foreign currency dealing, structured finance, and hedge fund monitoring. He received BA in Law from Sophia University. | |
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