Introduction to the Department of Investment
The Department is dedicated to cultivating high-quality and applied investment professionals who systematically master the fundamental theories and methods of the investment discipline, have comprehensive professional skills in financial and securities investment, industrial investment, real estate investment, and international investment, have a command of investment theories and algorithms, and boast a profound vision, innovation spirit, and intercultural communication skills. The Department takes industrial investment as its core, reflecting the role of finance in supporting the real economy, and keeps up with the development of financial technology featuring quantitative investment. With these advantages, the Department keeps providing highly-qualified talent for financial institutions such as Chinese and foreign-funded investment banks, fund management companies, and asset management companies.
Academic Research
Our faculty members have gained some impressive results in academic research in the past five years, presiding over 1 project from the National Social Science Foundation, 4 projects from the Humanities and Social Science Planning Fund of the Ministry of Education, 3 projects granted by the Office of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science, and 4 key projects from the Shanghai Development Research Center. We have authored 5 monographs on investment, such as Investor Limited Attention, Trading Behavior and Asset Prices and Research on the Industrial Effects of Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions, and have published academic papers in authoritative domestic journals such as Economic Research Journal, Journal of Management Sciences in China and Journal of Financial Research, and high-level international journals. Our faculty members always focus on investment and economics-related government policies, boasting great research results of decision-making consultation. Several advisory reports have been adopted as decision-making outcomes and approved by leaders at national and provincial levels. In 2020, a faculty member won the first prize in the 12th Shanghai Municipal Research Achievements on Decision-making Consultation.
Faculty
The faculty of the Department is based on the existing full-time investment teachers in the School of Finance and the introduction of high-caliber young teachers. The Department now boasts a well-qualified and experienced faculty with high academic research and teaching ability. There are 8 full-time faculty members, including 3 full professors, 3 associate professors, and 2 lecturers, 75% of whom have senior professional titles. In terms of practical background, there are 5 teachers with practical experience, 3 teachers with dual professional titles, and some teachers who work part-time in private equity firms and thus have rich practical experience. From the perspective of age mix, the faculty’s ages range from 30 to 53 years old, mainly young and middle-aged teachers aged between 40 and 50. As far as the educational background is concerned, all our teachers hold Ph.D. degrees and are solid in the academic foundation.