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Hong Yan
Hong Yan is Professor of Finance at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF)，
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he is also the founding director of the China
Hedge Funds Research Center. Before he joined SAIF full-time, Prof. Yan was on the
faculties at the Moore School of Business in the University of South Carolina and at
the University of Texas at Austin, and spent a year as a visiting academic scholar at
the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). He also held visiting
appointments at the University of Hong Kong, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.
Professor Yan holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of California, Berkeley,
and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of Michigan. His research
focuses on the areas of credit risk, asset pricing, derivatives securities, portfolio
choice, and risk management. He also studies financial intermediaries such as
mutual funds, hedge funds and financial analysts. Prof. Yan has published in top
academic journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review
of Financial Studies. Professor Yan currently serves as a Managing Editor of the
International Review of Finance.