Strategic Investment Management

Academic Focus

Aytekin’s research focuses on whether changes in accounting practices or regulation help overcome or create market frictions by studying the impact of these changes on the decision-making of the banking sector.

Experience

Aytekin has published his research in top journals such as The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Review of Accounting Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. He is on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and the Review of Accounting Studies and regularly referees for various other top journals.

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Academic Focus

Professor Naik is recognised as one of the leading experts on hedge fund investing. Over the last decade he has authored a significant body of work in hedge funds benchmarking, performance evaluation of long-only managers, tail-risk hedging, life settlements-longevity risk and market microstructure. Professor Naik’s research interests also lie within FinTech, exploring how Financial Technology is breaking the financial services value chain through more efficient provisioning of Payments, Deposits and Lending, Capital Raising, Wealth Management, Insurance, Market Data Analytics, as well as the impact on businesses on by the BlockChain and Cryptocurrency technology.

Recent Clients

Professor Naik has consulted widely during his career for the World Bank, sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, and private corporations in the UK, USA, Middle East and Far East.

Experience

Professor Naik has appeared many times on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, the BBC, ITV and other news channels as an expert finance academic. His work has appeared in the top finance journals, leading practitioner journals and financial press. Since joining London Business School in 1991, Professor Naik has played a key role in the development of the finance group at LBS, most notably in the role of Director of the PhD Programme in Finance, Director of the School’s Investment Management Programme, Director of the Hedge Fund Research Centre and more recently, one of the Academic Directors of the AQR Asset Management Institute at LBS.

Academic Focus

STEPHEN SCHAEFER is a Professor of Finance at the London Business School. He is also currently the Lead Academic Director of the School’s AQR Asset Management Institute and was previously Deputy Dean (Faculty). Formerly on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, he has also been a visiting professor at, among others, the Universities of British Columbia, California (Berkeley), Cape Town, Chicago and Venice.

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Outside academic life, Stephen Schaefer has consulted widely for financial institutions and is a co-author of two major reports for the Norwegian Ministry of Finance on the management of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund (the “Oil Fund”). At various times he has been an Independent Board Member of the Securities and Futures Authority, a Senior Research Advisor to Moody’s KMV, a Trustee-Director of Smith Breeden Mutual Funds and a member of Moody’s Academic Advisory and Research Committee.

Experience

He has published widely on fixed income markets, risk management, credit risk and financial regulation. His recent research includes a study of corporate default in the US over the past 150 years which was awarded first prize in the 2011 Fama/DFA award for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Capital Markets and Asset Pricing. In 2016 another recent paper on credit risk was award a Jack Treynor prize by the Q-group.

Academic Focus

Vidur is a Guest Lecturer at London Business School and teaches on the topic of real estate on the Strategic Investment Management programme. As a practitioner, he brings together his experience and knowledge of the markets and business, to connect the dots between market events, academic concepts, current trends, and the future.

Experience

Vidur has 24 years’ experience in banking and financial services - wealth management, investments, consumer banking, insurance, FX, and payments; across private clients, affluent & mass affluent customer segments, and has worked in UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia. He has worked for 22 years in Citibank, and his last role at Citibank was as Director – Head of Wealth Management for Citibank UK and Citi International Personal Bank EMEA (offshore banking), covering P&L, strategy, product management, investment advisory, leading client facing specialist and advisory teams.

He has extensively worked with wealthy families and family offices to help them with strategies to manage portfolios, intergenerational wealth transfer, set up and run family office, develop and execute investment strategies, identify external managers, invest in alternatives, manage risk, set up governance structure, understand and adapt to market changes and technology evolution, train the younger generation on wealth, and helping build family legacy.

Vidur has been on the UK Finance – Personal Finance committee and before that on the British Bankers Association – Personal Products and Services’ committee. He has also been the Chair of Citibank Consumer CASS Sub Committee for Client Assets. During his career he has extensively presented at industry conferences, client events, panel discussions and appeared on CNBC

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