News and Events

06/12/08 PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers' International Association) announces a new university partnership with Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

05/12/08. “The Liquidity Crisis/Credit Crunch and the State of the Leveraged Loan Markets." (PDF 556KB) Talk given by David Sachs, founding member of Ares Management LLC, at noon in Jacobs 1246. Co-sponsored with Financial Institutions and Market Research Center.

04/23/08. Jack Treynor was the keynote speaker at the First Annual AMP Advisory Board Meeting. The title of his talk was “The Power to Spend.” Mr. Treynor is President of Treynor Capital Management, Inc.  He was the editor of the Financial Analysts Journal for many years and is the author of more than ninety articles that have appeared in numerous financial publications.  Along with William Sharpe, Robert Merton, and Harry Markowitz, Treynor is a Distinguished Fellow for the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (the Q group).  He serves on the advisory boards of the Financial Analysts Journal and the Journal of Investment Management, and has taught courses at Columbia University and USC.  Treynor has served as a general partner, trustee, and director of seventy investment companies.

04/18/08. Chicago Microfinance Conference. Students from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and the Kellogg School of Management present: Competition & Collaboration: Expanding the Boundaries of Microfinance. The theme of this year's conference is to explore the viability of true collaboration among multiple stakeholders that are engaged in microfinance. The Zell Center for Risk Research is a sponsor of this conference.

04/10/08 Practice meets theory in Kellogg Asset Management Practicum. Jerome Kenney '67, chairman emeritus of Merrill Lynch, offered real-world view of finance during guest lecture on 4/07/08.

04/04/08 Zell Visiting Scholar Dean Thomas E. Zelibor, Rear Admiral, USN (ret), returned to Kellogg on 04/04/08. Read about his talk "How Leaders Cope with Risk," describing how risk can be positive.

04/03/08 Read about the 2008 Private Equity Conference, the premier academic venture and capital and private equity conference in the Chicago area, in the article, “Student leadership, industry insights add value to Kellogg Private Equity Conference.” The Zell Center for Risk Research was a sponsor of this conference.

03/19/08 Zell Visiting Scholar Lisa Goldberg presents a seminar called "Factoring Shortfall"

02/28/08 "Kellogg MBA Students Learn Defense With ETFs and Blue Chips" TheStreet.com

From the article: Last spring, Robert Korajczyk, the Harry G. Guthmann Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University launched a year-long course entitled Asset Management Practicum. Currently, enrolled students manage $2.7 million of Kellogg's endowment and rotate roles -- from analysts to hedge fund managers to traders to portfolio managers.

01/16/08 The research of professor and Zell Center Faculty Fellow Paola Sapienza (with Luigi Zinglaes, funded in part throught the Center) is detailed in the Wall Street Journal.

Read the paper "Social Capital as Good Culture"

01/01/08 Congratulations to the winners of the Zell Scholarship! Stephen Patrick Carlson and Enzo D'Angelo have been chosen as recipients of the Zell Scholarships for the academic year 2007-08. They will receive an award of $25,000 each.

Stephen's project is entitled, "Covenant-Lite Bank Loans: What Will Be Their Implications in a Period of Significant Defaults, and Are Markets Correctly Pricing the Risk?" and Enzo's project is "Limited Partners’ Perceptions and Management of Risk in Private Equity Investing."