UCF College of Business: Dean's Speaker Series

The Impact of Reputation on Financial Institutions
featuring Vladimir Gatchev, Ph.D.
SunTrust Associate Professor of Finance

7:30 - 9 a.m.
Citrus Club Orlando
$20 registration( includes breakfast and parking)
REGISTER: http://business.ucf.edu/speaker-series/

Key Topics Include:
- How do firms and underwriters choose each other?
- What criteria do issuing firms use when looking for an underwriter (for example, in the preparation of a company's initial public offering or IPO)?
- What criteria do investment banks use when looking for firms to underwrite?

7:30 a.m. Networking
8:00 a.m. Presentation
8:20 a.m. Q&A
9:00 a.m. Adjourn

Featured Speaker Biography
Gatchev received his PH.D. in Finance at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. His teaching involves discussions of financial models, econometrics, financial management, investments, options and forecasting.

He has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Financial Markets.

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The Dean's Speaker Series, sponsored by CFE Federal Credit Union, is a monthly opportunity from the UCF College of Business to learn about the provocative and new programs that our world-class faculty are spearheading, researching and teaching. This is an opportunity to be out on the edge of new business ideas and network with other business leaders in our community. Seating is limited.

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