Jan Annaert
Expertise
- Portfolio Theory
- Financial Risk Management
Prof. dr. Jan Annaert earned his Ph.D. from the University of Antwerp in 1993. Currently, he is professor of finance at the Faculty of Applied Economics of the University of Antwerp and also teaches three courses in the Master in Finance at Antwerp Management School. Previously, he was post-doctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), assistant professor at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, and associate professor of investments at Ghent University, where he was programme director of the Master of Banking and Finance. He also taught at the Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School from 1999 to 2006. He is independent director of Crelan and participates as external expert to the Pricing and Valuation Committee at KBC Asset Management, the Academic Reflection Committee at Progentis, and the Academic Committee at Keytrade Bank. At the university, he is member of the Investment Committee. He's done consulting work for a.o. Belgian Bankers Assoication, Beweging.Net, Deloitte, Electrabel, KPMG, and the National Bank of Belgium.
His research interests include portfolio theory, asset pricing, financial history and financial risk management. His research has been published in academic journals such as Economic History Review, Economica, European Journal of Finance, European Journal of Operational Research, Explorations in Economic History, Finance Research Letters, Financial History Review, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Investing, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, and Review of Finance. In 2008-2009 he spent a research internship at the Financial Stability Department of the National Bank of Belgium.