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Global Financial Markets Forum
April 27, 2007, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Alpha/Beta Make Room for Omega
Myron Scholes, Chairman of Platinum Grove Asset Management, formerly known as Oak Hill Platinum Partners, Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, and 1997 Nobel Laureate in Economics.
This event was part of The Graduate Business Council's Distinguished Speakers Series and was co-sponsored by the George J. Stigler Center for Study of Economy. The IGM Forum is generously sponsored by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Trust.
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Where
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Who
Myron Scholes
Chairman of Platinum Grove Asset Management, formerly known as Oak Hill Platinum Partners, Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, and 1997 Nobel Laureate in Economics.
Questions
Contact Jennifer Williams
773.702.6324
Speaker Profile
Myron S. Scholes is Chairman of Platinum Grove Asset Management, formerly known as Oak Hill Platinum Partners and is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance Emeritus, at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business since 1996. Scholes is currently a director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Dimensional Fund Investors mutual funds, and American Century (Mountain View) mutual funds.
Scholes is widely known for his seminal work in options pricing, capital markets, tax policies and the financial services industry. He is widely published in academic journals. He is co-originator of the Black-Scholes options pricing model, which is the basis of the pricing and risk-management technology that is used to value and to manage the risk of financial instruments around the world. For this work, he was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997.
Scholes has consulted widely with many financial institutions, corporations and exchanges and continues to lecture for many organizations around the world.
He received a Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of Chicago.
