Dr. Luis García-Feijóo, CFA, CIPM, is Professor of Finance at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), where he teaches investments and international finance. He is also a co-founder of Economic Index Associates (EIA), LLC. Professor García has served as associate editor of the Financial Analysts Journal since 2012, and he is also a research director for CFA Institute Research Foundation. Prior to joining FAU, he worked as director, exam development at CFA Institute and was an associate professor at Creighton University. Professor García’s research interests include factor investing, monetary policy and asset returns, and behavioral finance, among others. His research has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals. He is co-author of the book Invest with the Fed: How to Maximize Portfolio Performance Following Federal Reserve Policy. Professor García holds a PhD in finance from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He actively served on the Board of Directors of the CFA Society of South Florida from 2009 to 2014 and has been an active volunteer for CFA Institute since 2009.

Daniel Giamouridis, PhD, is a managing director in the Global Equities division of Bank of America, where he heads globally the Systematic Strategies Group (SSG). Previously, he was an associate professor of finance at the Athens University of Economics and Business and the Academic Consultant of the Global Equity Quantitative Research Group at Citi. Dr. Giamouridis’ career has focused on Quantitative investment decision making and analysis, in particular the design and implementation of systematic investment strategies. His research on systematic alpha, risk premia strategies and factor investing, quantitative portfolio execution/trading, investment risk measurement/management has appeared in leading academic and practitioner journals and has also received grants from professional organizations and academic institutions internationally. Dr. Giamouridis holds a PhD in finance from Bayes Business School (City University of London) and a MEng in mechanical engineering from NTUA. He is an affiliate of Bayes Business School (City University of London) and a co-editor of the Financial Analysts Journal.

Professor Nicole Boyson has been at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University since 2004 and currently serves as the department chair. She holds a Ph.D. in Finance from The Ohio State University, an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, and a BBA from Kent State University. Her research and teaching interests are in the area of institutional investors, conflicts of interest among investment advisors, banking, and hedge fund activism. She has published her research in the top finance journals and is an active presenter and discussant at conferences, both academic and practitioner.

Prior to joining the DMSB faculty in 2004, Professor Boyson was an Assistant Professor at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue, she was a manager for Ernst & Young, the VP of Investments for Pension Consulting Services, an analyst for Third Federal Savings and Loan, and a senior accountant at KPMG Peat Marwick.

A Certified Public Accountant, Professor Boyson currently serves on the Board of the Eastern Finance Association. She has been a member of numerous program committees of professional organizations and frequently acts as an ad-hoc referee for several academic journals. Professor Boyson was named a Top 50 Undergraduate Business School Professor in 2020 by Poets and Quants and was the D’Amore-McKim Best Teacher in 2016.