Ryan McKeon

Area of Expertise: Derivatives, asset pricing, portfolio management

Web Site: http://www.sandiego.edu/business/directory/biography.php?id=1143

Topics Presented in Speeches: “What Can Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Teach Us About Investing?,” “Can an Active Manager Beat the Benchmark Index Using Size-, Book-to-Market- and Momentum-Based Strategies?,” “The Information in Book-to-Market Profits for Momentum,” “Variation in Option Returns: the Importance of Moneyness, Maturity and Skewness,” “Options Traders Reacting to Bad News:  The SEC versus Goldman Sachs,” “Empirical Patterns of Time Value Decay in Options”

Email: rmckeon@sandiego.edu

Biography:

Ryan McKeon is an associate professor of finance at the University of San Diego. McKeon has been at USD since Summer of 2009 after earning a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Georgia. Prior to earning his Ph.D., McKeon worked in London for three years, first for Goldman Sachs then Credit Suisse First Boston, as an analyst in Fixed Income Derivatives.  Before his work in London, McKeon earned his bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

McKeon’s research interests include asset pricing, derivative products and markets, portfolio management and fund performance. At the college level he has taught courses in investments, financial management, derivatives, international finance and research methods. His academic research includes articles published in Quarterly Journal of Accounting and Finance, Review of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Investing and Managerial Finance.