How Investors Make Decisions (And the Science Behind It)

How Investors Make Decisions (And the Science Behind It)

Thursday, March 21, 2013 7:30 a.m. Registration and breakfast 8:00 a.m. Panel discussion

Please join us for an expert panel discussion with Drexel researchers and financial advisors to gain insight on how emotions and psychology can have an impact on conventional finance theories.

Co-sponsored by Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business and the Society of Financial Service Professionals.

By attending this seminar, you can earn 1.5 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits in the field of Social Environment of Business.

Moderator: Sue West, Director, SEI Private Wealth Management

Panelists: Daniel Dorn, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Finance, Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business Daniel Dorn is an Associate Professor and a Dornsife Fellow at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business where he has been since 2003. He earned a finance Ph.D. from Columbia University. During the academic year 2011/12, he visited the University of Mannheim in Germany as the Wilhelm Mueller Foundation Professor of Finance. His research, which focuses on investments and behavioral finance, has been supported by the BSI Gamma Foundation and the European Central Bank’s Lamfalussy Fellowship program, and published in leading finance journals.

Raj Suri, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Marketing, Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business

Barry D. Waterhouse, Ph.D. - Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Vice-Dean for Biomedical Graduate and Postgraduate Studies at Drexel University College of Medicine. B.S., Biology, 1971, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania; PhD, Pharmacology, 1977, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia. Primary research interest - the role of central noradrenergic and serotonergic projection systems and psychostimulant drugs in the operation of sensory and cognitive neural networks within the mammalian brain.

CPE Clause: LeBow College of Business, Division of Drexel University, is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org.