Dr. Mo is a managing director and the chief economist at AIG. In this role, he is responsible for developing international residential and commercial real estate forecast models, and provides macroeconomic projections for the firm’s asset management (+$350bn AUM) and insurance businesses. Dr. Mo joined AIG December 2013.
Previously, Dr. Mo worked as a director and senior economist in the Economics Research team at Credit Suisse. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Dr. Mo worked as a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Dr. Mo has published in top-tier academic journals and has regularly presented at academic, regulatory, and industrial conferences. His research work was regularly quoted by the world’s leading financial media. Dr. Mo has also done executive teaching at a number of institutions including Tsinghua PBC School of Finance, Cheung Kung Graduate School of Business, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, etc.
Dr. Mo received both his MPhil and PhD in Economics from the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York and BS in Electronics and Information System from Zhongshan University. He also studied in the Mathematics in Finance Program at New York University and in the Economics Program at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, respectively. Dr. Mo is a CFA charter holder. He is also a member of Council for Asset and Investment Management at The Institute of International Finance (IIF), The Economic Club of New Work and a Board member of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA).
Guang Yang, Director of Board of TCFA. With over 18 years of working experience in major international financial centers: New York, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai, Guang has been holding management roles in several financial institutions, such as leading the international business of GJ Financial Holdings as Deputy CEO and Templeton Capital as Partner, managing the portfolio of Asian companies listed in US and Europe for Citigroup, leading European Central Bank's secondary market project across 14 countries, etc. He also worked in JPMorgan's Division of International Banking and BNY Mellon's Developing Market Department in New York. Guang started his career at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as one of its first a few analysts recruited in Asia, and then shifted to investment banking by joining HSBC in Hong Kong and London. He is the co-author of a World Bank White Paper, and has been interviewed by Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, People's Daily, CCTV, China Daily, and other media for comments on financial markets.
Besides being a financial professional, Guang is a TV personality who used to host the first bilingual Music TV show in China, and various international events and forums in US, Europe and Asia. Guang has been a core member of TCFA since 2006/07 and Director of Board for 6 years. He is currently the Chief PR Officer in charge of media relations and other public affairs. He also helped lead TCFA's career advisory programs for junior professionals and students. He received his master degree from Columbia University and bachelor degree from Fudan University. He is currently the Chairman of Fudan Alumni Association of USA, and an Adjunct Professor of Columbia University.
Dr. Bo Liu is currently working as a Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and has more than 10 years working experience as a desk/risk quant from major financial institutions. His team is responsible for enterprise level regulator capital, economic capital and Basel related modeling. Before joined BofA, he worked at J. P. Morgan and UBS as a risk quant to cover counterparty and credit risk modeling. He also worked as a desk quant to support structured credit trading desk at Citigroup and a model developer at Fitch Ratings. Dr. Liu was also an adjunct profession at Rutgers Business School. Dr. Liu holds a Ph.D. in Finance and MBA from Rutgers Business School, M.S. in Finance from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and B.S. in Statistics from Beijing Normal University. His research has been published in several prominent academic journals.
Dr. Liu is the current CFO of TCFA and Board Director. Since joined TCFA in 2006, he has been involved in the core management team and held various positions including Board Director, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer. Dr. Liu also served in TCFA accounting committee and Best Paper Award review committee.
Dr. Hui Fan is currently an Assistant Director at AIG’s Asset Management group, where his team is in charge of building the quantitative investment platform to forecast the financial performance of investments at AIG and help facilitate the Chief Investment Officer in making strategic investment decisions. The system is also the foundation of CCAR stress testing and budget reporting at AIG Asset Management.
Prior to AIG, Hui spent 6 years at Morgan Stanley’s risk department and Moody’s derivatives group, with rich experiences in risk management, modeling and trading. He is a CFA Charter Holder and an active contributor to Seeking Alpha. He also won the 2nd Prize in the 2013 TCFA Global Investment Contest. Hui has a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S./M.S. from Tsinghua University.
Kun Gao is a Quantitative Portfolio Manager at Tudor Investment Corporation, where he manages a team developing and trading systematic equity strategies in global markets. Prior to joining Tudor, he was a Portfolio Manager at WorldQuant, L.L.C. where he designed and traded a computer-driven global equity portfolio. Previously, he has worked for Morgan Stanley and Caxton Associates, L.L.C. Kun holds a B.S. in Probability and Statistics from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Yale University.
