Bruno Solnik

Bruno Solnik is a Professor of Finance at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong.[1] He teaches in the MBA program. He is Academic Director of the HKUST-NYU Master in Global Finance. He is also Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Finance at HEC Paris.

Early life and education

Solnik earned an Engineering degree from École Polytechnique in Parisin 1966. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completing a Ph. D. in Finance in 1972. IN 1986 he was presented with a State Doctorate in Management from the Université de Paris Dauphine.

Career

In 1969 Solnik was hired as a lecturer in economics at the University of Paris. In 1972 he moved to Stanford University as an assistant professor of finance. From 1974 to -1986 he worked part-time as a professor of economics at École Polytechnique, after which he joined the HEC Paris, fist as an Associate Professor, then a Professor of Finance, and later a Distinguished Emeritus Professor. Solnik became a visiting professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2006 to 2009, and later was appointed as a Professor and academic director of the Master of Science in Global Finance program at that university.

He has also held visiting positions at University of Tokyo (Todai), University of New South Wales, University of Geneva, UCLA, and University of California Berkeley.

Solnik researches trends in global finance,[2][3][4] and has made a particular study of international diversificstion of investment.[5][6]

Solnik is a former President of the European Finance Association and Director of the American Finance Association.

Solnik has written seven books, five in France and two in the USA, including Global Investments, a textbook in the field formerly titled International Investments, and translated into Japanese and Chinese. The sixth edition of Global Investments, coauthored by Dennis McLeavey of the CFA Institute, has been used for all three levels of the CFA examination. He has published some fifty articles in leading finance and economics journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of International Money and Finance, etc. He also serves on the board of editors of several major Finance journals in America, Europe and Asia.

Solnik has served on the Council for Education and Research of the CFA Institute and on its Research Foundation. Awards include two Graham & Dodd Awards for Excellence by the Financial Analysts Journal, the "Finance Award of the Year" at the 1998 Interlaken Finance Symposium, and the Nicholas Molodovsky Award, presented by the CFA Institute in 1999.[7] He is a Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honor.

Publications: Books

Selected academic articles

Honors

References

  1. 1 2 "The Right Way to Invest Globally". Wall Street Journal, Liam Pleven. July 25, 2014
  2. ↑ Maurice D. Levi (1 January 1983). International Finance: Financial Management and the International Economy. McGraw Hill Book Company. p. 373. ISBN 978-0-07-037481-2.
  3. ↑ Maurice D. Levi (1996). Are capital markets internationally integrated?. Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia. pp. 4–5.
  4. ↑ Jack Clark Francis; Roger G. Ibbotson (2002). Investments: A Global Perspective. Prentice Hall. p. 536. ISBN 978-0-13-890740-2.
  5. ↑ VYUPTAKESH SHARAN (9 May 2012). INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. pp. 298–. ISBN 978-81-203-4586-7.
  6. ↑ William G. Bain (1996). Investment Performance Measurement. Woodhead Publishing. pp. 156–. ISBN 978-1-85573-195-0.
  7. 1 2 "Award for Professional Excellence". CFA Institute
  8. ↑ Kohout Pavel (11 November 2013). Investiční strategie pro třetí tisíciletí: 7. aktualizované a přepracované vydání. Grada Publishing a.s. pp. 105–. ISBN 978-80-247-5064-4.
  9. ↑ "European capital markets: towards a general theory of international investment". WorldCat.

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