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Distinguished Speaker

 

Biography
 

Stanley J. Kon, Ph.D., is a Principal at Smith Breeden Associates, Inc. Dr. Kon serves as the firm's Director of Research. Prior to joining the firm in 1997, Dr. Kon was a Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan since 1982. During this time, he served as Chairman of the Finance Department, Director of the J. Ira Harris Center for the Study of Corporate Finance, and a member of the advisory board for the Mitsui Life Financial Research Center. Prior to 1982, Professor Kon served on the faculties of New York University, University of Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has written extensively in the areas of investment management, performance measurement, asset pricing, and statistical models of stock returns, publishing articles in various journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Fixed Income, and Financial Analysts Journal.

 

Dr. Kon is the editor of the Journal of Fixed Income. Dr. Kon has also served as a consultant to government, business, and financial institutions, including the U.S. Department of Labor, Resolution Trust Corporation, SEC, Catalyst Group, The Commodity Exchange, and Chase Econometric Associates. For the 2010-2011 academic year, he is also a Visiting Professor of Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business. Dr. Kon holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Economics from St. John's University, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Lowell Technological Institute.

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