Financial Research Seminar with Andrew W. Lo (MIT)

November 29, 2017

3:30 PM

Brussels

Radisson Blu Royal Hotel

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Though

On November 29, 2017 at 3:30 p.m., Andrew Lo (MIT) will be giving a talk on “Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Though”, considered by the Financial times as “A remarkable new paradigm puts human instinct at the heart of market behaviour”. The event is organized by Louvain Finance (LFIN) in cooperation with the National Bank of Belgium, KU Leuven, UA, UCL, UGent, ULB, ULg, UMons, UNamur, Université Saint-Louis, Vlerick and VUB. At 17:00, the talk will be followed by a drink with selection of Belgian beers.

Speaker

Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1984. He has published numerous articles in finance and economics journals, and has authored several books including Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought, The Econometrics of Financial Markets, A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street, Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective, and The Evolution of Technical Analysis. His innovative work often appears in the Financial Times and other leading newspapers. In 2012, he was named one of Time's 100 most influential people.

Practical Information

Venue

The talk will take place in at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Brussels
Rue du Fossé aux Loups, 47, Belgium.

Registration

To attend the talk, please register by emailing nbbfinancial.seminar@nbb.be by November 15. As number of seats are limited, registration is compulsory.

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