Warwick Finance Network - Behavioural Finance In Practice

Warwick Finance Network warmly invite you to join us for our third Finance Friday event on the 27th March 2015 in our impressive new venue in The Shard, London.

The event will provide you the opportunity to join fellow professionals to hear out the latest trend in behavioural finance.

Learn what some of the leading experts from industry and academia think about how to harness the power of behaviour finance in understanding investors and markets.

Spaces are limited, book your seat today!

Schedule
17:00 Doors Open
17:45 Behavioural Finance in Practice – Greg Davies
18:30 Measuring & Predicting Human Behaviour Using Big Data–Tobias Preis
19:15 Drinks & Networking

20:00 Close

With

Greg Davies – Head of Behavioural Finance for Barclays

Based in London, Greg B Davies leads a global team of behavioural and quantitative finance specialists, and is responsible for the design and global implementation of Barclays’ Investment Philosophy. He is an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, and his first book, Behavioral Investment Management, was published in January. He has authored papers in multiple academic disciplines, and is a frequent media commentator on Behavioural Finance.

He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Cape Town, an MPhil in Economics, and a PhD in Behavioural Decision Theory, both from Cambridge University.Greg’s co-created ‘reality opera’ Open Outcry, which turns the behaviour of a functioning trading floor into a musical performance, received its première in London in November 2012.

Tobias Preis – Associate Professor of Behavioural Science & Finance

Dr. Tobias Preis is an Associate Professor of Behavioural Science and Finance at the University of Warwick. Together with his colleague Dr. Suzy Moat, he directs the Data Science Lab at Warwick Business School. His recent research has aimed to analyse and predict real world behaviour with the volumes of data being generated by our interactions with technology, using data from Google, Wikipedia, Flickr and other sources. His research is frequently featured in the news, by outlets including the BBC, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Science, Nature, Time Magazine, New Scientist and the Guardian. He has given a range of public talks including presentations at TEDx events in the UK and in Switzerland. More details can be found on his website http://www.tobiaspreis.de.