School of Finance and Management

Professor Chris Adcock

Key information

Roles
School of Finance and Management Professorial Research Associate
Qualifications
BSc PhD (Southampton)

Biography

Professor Chris Adcock is a Professorial Research Associate within the School of Finance and Management. 

Chris was a Professor of Quantitative Finance at SOAS University of London from April 2017 until July 2020. Previously Professor of Financial Econometrics at the University of Sheffield. Now honorary Professor of Finance in Sheffield University Management School and visiting Professor at University College Dublin and Kings College London. Research interests in portfolio selection, asset pricing theory, financial econometrics and development of quantitative techniques for portfolio management. Sometime advisor to several international investment managers. Founding editor of The European Journal of Finance. Previously associate editor of several finance journals and Series C and D of the Journals of the Royal Statistical Society. Current projects in financial econometrics, asymmetry and portfolio selection.

Research interests

Portfolio selection, asset pricing theory, financial econometrics and development of quantitative techniques for portfolio management.

Publications

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