SEMINAR ON " BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE'

Date: December 15, 2014
Place: DOHA BANK AUDITORIUM

The Executive committee of ICAI Doha Chapter cordially invites its members to the CPE seminar as per below details.

 

Date/Time:       Monday , 15th December 2014, 6.00 pm to 9.30pm

 

Speakers’ Profile

 

 

 

 

  

 

CA Easwar S A is a Chartered Accountant and director of Symphony Research, an Investment research firm, registered in USA, with offices in Boston, Muscat and Bangalore. Symphony Research provides investment research and advisory services to institutional investors, particularly U.S. based hedge funds and Registered Investment Advisors (RIA).

CA Easwar has 15 years of experience in global capital markets and 6 years as adjunct faculty

 

Easwar is also a director in ICMA, Oman an institute focused on offering EEPs in Finance & Accounting. He is an adjunct Faculty at the IIMs and has taught at IIM, Indore, IIM (A) PGPX and IIM (B), including executive education programs at IIM (B). He has also anchored several programs in Oman and UAE on Financial Statement Analysis & valuation and portfolio management for some of the top financial institutions and investment funds based in the GCC.

 

 Behavioral Finance is emerging as an important topic with more decision makers and finance professionals considering it as an important tool in the decision making process. Behavioural finance combines concepts in neuroscience, economics and psychologyandexplains how the biological makeup of the brain drives decision making in business and finance, and influences good or bad decisions.

 

The underpinnings of the whole session will be on how the most difficult part in making financial decisions is managing your emotions. Financial decision making process is supposed to be rational and logical, but is made by humans who are deeply irrational and biased. We overestimate our own wisdom and capabilities, incorrectly assess situations, and continue doing so in fairly predictable patterns.

 

 3 CPE hours has been applied for this event.

Agenda

 

Time

Activity

6.00 – 6.20 PM

Registration, Networking & Refreshments

6.20 - 6.25pm

Welcome Address by CA Gaurav Kakkar, Treasurer

6.25 - 6.30pm

Opening Remarks & Introduction of Key Note Speaker by CA Raja Gopalakrishnan, Vice Chairman

6.30 -9.00PM

Keynote address by CA Easwar S A

9.00- 9.20pm

Q & A

9:20 – 9:30 PM

Closing Remarks  and Vote of Thanks by CA Rukkaiya Pachisa, Member, Executive Committee

9:30 PM onwards

Dinner