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Honors

Congratulations to John Wachowicz for being honored at the Spring CBA Honors banquet with the 2010 Richard C. Reizenstein Outstanding Commitment to Students Award!

Several members of the Finance faculty were finalists for awards.  Phillip Daves was a finalist for the Allen H. Keally Outstanding Teacher award; Tracie Woidtke was a finalist for the Ray and Joan Myatt Outstanding Teaching, Research and Service award; and, Larry Fauver was a finalist for the Sarah Alice and Tommy Bronson Outstanding Researcher award.

PhD student Yu Zhang was a finalist for the Allen H. Keally Graduate Teaching award.

At the Chancellor’s Honors Banquet, the Top Collegiate Scholar award went to James Chandler Allen (Senior in Finance).

We are proud of the accomplishments of our students, faculty and staff!

John M. Wachowicz, Jr. Finance Excellence Fund

Jenny Banner, Finance Department Advisory Council member, and CEO of the Schaad Companies, has established the John M. Wachowicz, Jr. Finance Excellence Endowment.  Earnings will be used to support the activities of the Financial Management Association or the Volunteers on Wall Street Program.  Jenny recently received the "Alumni Service Award" which recognizes exceptional service or long-term continuing service and leadership to the University of Tennessee.  It acknowledges those who have given significant amounts of time, talent or resources to their alma mater.  We appreciate Jenny's continued support for Department of Finance activities and programs, and congratulate John on this honor.

Lien Nguyen, John Wachowicz, Jenny Banner and James Schaad at the awards dinner.

 

 

DeGennaro Featured in Quest

CBA Professor of Banking and Finance Ray DeGennaro's very interesting research about stock sales was featured as the cover story of the Fall 2009 print version of the Quest Research Magazine, in an article by Bill Dockery.   (Excerpted below:)

DeGennaro’s Research Agenda

DeGennaro does not limit his research interests to analyzing the immediacy of volatile markets; his research agenda extends to projects that explore the social dimensions of capital investment.

DeGennaro thinks the risk premium would be an indicator of the confidence—or lack thereof— that investors have in the health of the market or of a particular institution. “The risk premium can be an indication of what investors think the chances are that an institution handling the trade will fail,” he says. “What are the chances of a disruption of payments? Am I going to get paid on time if the institution is gone or swamped with transactions?”

He expects that an examination of the financial transactions of the 2008 period would reveal the existence of the risk premium as an unarticulated cost of the market’s volatility. “If we had been watching the uptick in the risk premium in the summer of 2008, it might have alerted us early on that investors thought the markets were fragile.”

FMA New York Trip

The student Financial Management Association took its annual trip to New York in October accompanied by FMA faculty sponsor Suzan Murphy, and the Investment Learning Center director Laura Cole.  The group visited the financial district and met with Ace Greenberg in his office.  They took in the NYSE and the New York Mercantile Exchange.  The group is grateful to Sharon Pryse, President, The Trust Company of Knoxville, for sponsoring lunch for them while on the NY trip.

Posing with the Bull on Wall Street in New York

Visiting with Ace Greenberg at his office in Manhattan

The New York Mercantile Exchange

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