The Retail Investors Affinity Group (WRIG) invites you to an exciting and informative discussion with Wharton Professor Marius Guenzel.
Professor Guenzel will talk with us about:
- Attention, stock picking, and effects on stock prices
- Reference points, gain-loss thinking, and effects on trading
- Behavioral corporate finance and sunk cost effects in firm decision-making
- Corporate repairs and how to curb adverse effects of managerial biases
About Professor Guenzel
Professor Guenzel joined the Wharton faculty in 2020 and is an Assistant Professor of Finance. His primary research interests are in corporate and behavioral finance. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and has published papers on behavioral finance and the life cycle of a CEO’s career, the effect of sunk costs on corporate investments, and CEO stress and aging. He is a referee for the American Economic Review. Knowledge@Wharton recently featured his research on how biases influence CEOs throughout their careers.
The event will be moderated by Peter Manda, the Chair of the Retail Investors Group. Peter has an MA and MGA from Penn and a WPWP degree from Wharton. He received his EMBA from Chicago Booth in 2020 and works as an attorney in New York City.
About the Retail Investors Affinity Group
The Retail Investors Affinity Group formed in the fall of 2020. We are a group of Wharton alumni who invest non-professionally. In addition to engaging with each other on market news and events, we follow our recommendations in a TD Ameritrade paper trading account (no funds required).
To obtain our release form and join, please contact WRIG@whartonny.com and include your full name, line of business, company name, e-mail address and phone number.
When:
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
12:00 PM ET - 1:00 PM ET
Cost:
WCNY Supporting Members - $10 (WCNY supporting membership costs $95/yr at Join/Renew Membership)
Other Wharton Alumni & Alumni Guests - $20
Gold & Benefactor Members - $0
Meeting Access Information:
A link, accessible by personal computer, tablet or smartphone, will be emailed to all registered guests 24-48 hours prior to the event to the "Primary Email" address listed in your profile. Please login to update your profile and confirm that the email address listed is correct. We will attempt to provide the ability to ask questions at the end of the presentation and time permitting.
Pre-registration is required. Please register early as events can and do sell out quickly.
Registration is subject to availability and will close on Wednesday, June 9th at 9:00am.
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