The ICMA Centre is very proud to congratulate PhD student Yingying Wu on her receipt of a Best Paper Award at the 19th Global Finance Conference, taking place at DePaul University in Chicago on May 23-25, 2012.  The prize was awarded for the paper “Commodity Futures Prices: More Evidence on Forecast Power, Risk Premia and the Theory of Storage” (co-authored withContinue reading

The ICMA Centre has just finished hosting 37 delegates from the Securities Association of China for a 3 week course on Asset Management studies. The 37 students represented many various members of the Securities Association of China and came from across their nation. Many of them would never have met each other if it weren’t for their inclusion on theContinue reading

The ICMA Centre’s Dr Simone Varotto has been awarded the University’s 2012 Output Prize for Henley Business School. Each year the University awards Faculty Output Prizes for the best research outputs from each of its four faculties. Dr Varotto won the award with his research paper* “Credit Risk Stress Testing: The Great Depression Scenario”, published in the Journal of BankingContinue reading

The ICMA Cente, Henley Business School, is proud to welcome visiting academic, and returning alumni, Assistant Professor Manohar Lal, of the ITM Institute of Financial Markets, Mumbai, India, who will be undertaking research at Reading from 7 March – 25 March 2012. Assistant Professor Lal completed a B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in 1999, M.Sc. in Statistics in 2002Continue reading

Financial experts from the University of Reading’s ICMA Centre are to investigate medieval foreign exchange. The University has recently won a Research Project Grant worth almost £200,000 from the Leverhulme Trust.[1] The research team, comprising Professors Adrian Bell and Chris Brooks, and Dr Tony Moore, will examine in detail the workings of the markets for foreign currency trade in theContinue reading

Capitalism is high on the political agenda. Like coffee it seems to come in a bewildering number of varieties. Some politicians like it “responsible” others “moral” and still others “popular”. While some argue that it is time for shareholders to wield real power, others feel that that certain shareholders, notably hedge funds should sit on their hands, at least ifContinue reading

What next? Financial crises Professor Brian Scott-Quinn’s article published in the Summer Issue of the University of Reading’s Research Review Professor Brian Scott-Quinn, the chairman of the ICMA centre for financial markets at Henley Business School, discusses financial crises and whether regulatory capture is to blame. The crisis in the banking system which commenced in 2007 has caused most peopleContinue reading

The weather couldn’t dampen high spirits at the ICMA Centre last week as over 300 students celebrated their remarkable achievements. One student in particular had special reason to celebrate not only did he come top in his class thereby winning the MSc Academic Achievement Award but he was also awarded the Vetiva Prize. In total MSc International Securities, Investment andContinue reading

The ICMA Centre’s Dr Marcel Prokopczuk has much to celebrate this week. Dr Prokopczuk who joined the Centre in 2009, received a promotion on the 1st of July to Senior Lecturer and yesterday was awarded a University Teaching and Learning prize as well as being awarded a British Academy research project grant. The Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning awards recognise andContinue reading

The Financial Times’ Global Masters in Finance 2011 has ranked the ICMA Centre in the top 25 in the world. The Centre and its flagship MSc International Securities, Investment and Banking programme sits amongst the top finance schools and programmes in the world alongside the likes of Oxford, Saïd and HEC Paris. The ranking evaluates alumni career progress and satisfactionContinue reading