Mission
The Richard M. Burridge Center for Securities Analysis and Valuation creates and shares knowledge about the world financial markets, principally the U.S. financial markets. The center encourages professional investment managers, finance scholars, policy makers, and the investing public to exchange ideas. Ultimately, the center encourages research relevant to money managers, valuation experts, and finance academics.
The center is supported by a $1.2 million endowment from Richard Burridge (51’ finance), who has given a total of more than $2 million to the University, and by the board of governors. This group supports the school through volunteering and philanthropy. Burridge explains, “The Leeds School has a desire to be one of the top business schools in the country, and I’d like to support that goal as best I can.”
This year’s conference brought together academics, industry professionals and students. Ron J. Feldman, senior vice president for Supervision and Regulations, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis discussed financial regulatory policies, and Leeds seniors Peter Clowes and Hugh Darrin Scilley, Jr. discussed their “buy” recommendation analysis for Intuitive Surgical [NASDAQ: ISRG] stock among other presentations. The conference identified ways for financial advisors and money managers to earn good returns.
Keynote speakers, like leading scholar Professor Ravi Jagannathan of Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, continue the center’s mission to share research. Professor Jagannathan visited the Leeds School for a week and spoke to the nationwide organization of quantitative investment professionals and spoke at the Lovell Lecture at the Leeds School on “Why Are We In a Financial Crisis: The Financial Crisis is a Symptom, Rather Than the Disease!”
Continuing to reach out to the community, Director Michael Stutzer participated in a center co-sponsored public forum devoted to the life and work of Professor Milton Friedman who’s research offers vital analyses and proposals for coping with today’s pressing economic issues.
High quality research on improving investment analysis is at the heart of the center’s work. Stutzer researched and spoke about the near and long-term outlook for inflation for the Colorado Treasury Management Association, an organization that is building an ongoing relationship with center.
The top priority for 2011 is to continue center expansion efforts, and recruiting of academics who are also well-versed in the needs of investment practitioners, i.e. “Pracademics”.
