Visiting professor in School of Business
•Dr. George Athanassakos is visiting the LUT School of Business during weeks 36 and 37. Dr. Athanassakos will be lecturing on a course Valuation of Financial Securities
and Value Creation: Theory and Practice.
Dr. Athanassakos is a Professor of Finance and the Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing at Richard Ivey School of Business. Dr. Athanassakos has also spent a number of years at various research-related positions with banking and trust companies in Canada and Greece, and taught at York University and Wilfrid Laurier University.
Dr. Athanassakos has researched extensively the institutional attributes of the Canadian capital markets, the effect institutional trading and analysts’ forecasts have on stock market performance, stock and bond market anomalies and bond and equity valuation issues.