CFA Society of Columbus September 27, 2017 Luncheon 

Please join the CFA Society of Columbus in welcoming Dr. Lu Zhang as our guest speaker at our September luncheon.

"Replicating Anomalies"

Dr. Lu Zhang is The John W. Galbreath Chair, Professor of Finance, at Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, as well as Research Associate at National Bureau of Economic Research (Asset Pricing program) and Associate Editor for Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He is Founding President of Macro Finance Society, an international academic society devoted to advancing and disseminating high-quality research at the intersection of financial economics and macroeconomics. Before joining Ohio State in 2010, he taught at Stephen M. Ross School of Business at University of Michigan and William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at University of Rochester. Dr. Zhang's research focuses on asset pricing, in connection with macroeconomics, corporate finance, labor economics, and capital markets research in accounting. His major contribution is the investment CAPM, a unified conceptual framework for understanding asset pricing anomalies. Dr. Zhang has published extensively at leading academic journals. One chapter of his doctoral thesis "The value premium" won the Smith-Breeden Award for Best Paper for 2005 from American Finance Association and Journal of Finance. His academic research has been featured in prominent media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Shanghai Financial News.

RSVP's due by COB Friday, September 22, 2017