On March 17, Robert C. Merton, the Distinguished
Professor of Finance at
the MIT Sloan School of Management and Honorary Professor at Harvard University, also the 1997 Nobel laureate
in Economics, is going to deliver a speech in Guanghua School of management
at Peking University, entitled "Wealth management and inheritance" as part of "The Thought Leader" series
activities.
In 1970, Robert C. Merton received his doctorate degree
in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the guidance
of first Nobel laureate in Economics, professor Paul Samuelson. In the early
1970s, together with Fisher Black, Myron Scholes, Professor Merton proposed an
option pricing model. For the first time, the scientific pricing model is widely
used in financial derivative products and laid the foundation for the prosperous
development of financial derivative products. He
was the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration (1988-98) and
the John and Natty McArthur University Professor (1998-2010) at Harvard Business
School. Merton served on the finance faculty of MIT’s Sloan School of
Management until 1988. He is currently Resident Scientist at Dimensional Fund
Advisors, where he is the developer of Managed DC, an integrated
retirement-funding solution system with global application that addresses the
deficiencies associated with traditional defined-benefit and
defined-contribution pension plans. His target retirement solution has been
widely adapted in many companies in US, Canada, Europe and Africa, and greatly improved
investors’wealth management efficiency. He served as an independent director
on the boards of the Dimensional Funds from 2003-2009.
Merton received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997
for a new method to determine the value of derivatives. He is past president of
the American Finance Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences,
and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Hosted by Guanghua
School of management at Peking University, "The Thought Leader Series"
invites business and academic celebrities to share their unique insights with scholars, students, alumni and Guanghua friends and partners on various topics related to social, cultural, economic and financial issues. The program is committed to build a platform
for intellectual exchanges and to promote the transformation and
development of the Chinese market. This event is organized by the National
Center for Financial Research (NCFR), Peking University, and sponsored by Zhongzhi
group.
Preliminary
Program
Time:
March 17, 2016
Location:
301 Auditorium, 1st bld, GSM
Schedule：
7:00-7:05
pm Opening Remarks
7:05-8:05
pm Speech by Robert Merton
8:05
– 8:45 pm Roundtable discussion
8:45
– 9:00 pm Q & A session
The simultaneous interpretation is going to be provided in this event. Due to the limited space,please click here to fill in your reservation application online ASAP.
