PER Live Series: “Why Do (Systematic) Asset Managers Hire Economists?”

Adam Rej, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Capital Fund Management (CFM)
Adam Rej is an Executive Director at Capital Fund Management. He completed his PhD at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and he held postdoctoral positions at Imperial College London, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and École Normal Supérieure in Paris. He joined CFM in 2014 and focuses on systematic global macro research.

Professor David Thesmar, Ph.D.
Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
David Thesmar is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research has been published widely in leading academic journals, and focuses on behavioral economics, corporate finance and asset management. He is currently a senior research advisor at Capital Fund Management.

Moderator:

Sophia N. Johnson, Ph.D.
Program for Economic Research (PER), Columbia University

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