Panelists: Sales & Trading: "Mitigating Risk versus Profiting from Volatility"

Moderator: Alex Edmans
Assistant Professor of Finance
The Wharton School

Alex Edmans is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Wharton. After graduating from Oxford University, Professor Edmans worked as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in London. He then earned a PhD in Financial Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. During his studies, he spent his first summer as an Associate in Morgan Stanley's Fixed Income Division in New York.

Alex joined Wharton in 2007 and won the MBA Core Teaching Award and the MBA Core Curriculum Award in his debut year. Alex's research interests are in corporate finance and investments. His study on the link between employee satisfaction and shareholder returns won the 2007 Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing research. A paper on the effect of international soccer results on investor sentiment and stock returns was a finalist for the Smith-Breeden Prize for best paper in the Journal of Finance and covered by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, ESPN, CNBC and the BBC. His paper on corporate governance via "voting with your feet" is forthcoming in the Journal of Finance, and a theory showing that executive compensation may be more efficient than commonly believed is forthcoming in the Review of Financial Studies.

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