Randall McFadden

Dr Randall McFadden

Senior Lecturer in Finance and Risk Management
Senior Lecturer
Course Leader: MSc Finance and Risk Management
Course Leader: MSc Finance and Accounting
The Claude Littner Business School
randall.mcfadden@uwl.ac.uk

Employed by a number of global investment banks since graduating as an MBA in 1981. These banks include Banque Bruxelles Lambert (Geneva, Switzerland), Banque Nationale de Paris (Paris, France), Citicorp (Tokyo, Japan), and Sanyo Securities (Tokyo, Japan). Positions held have ranged from sell side and buy side equity analyst to asset allocation manager.

Fluent in English (mother tongue) and French.  Formerly fluent in Japanese.  Some knowledge of German and Chinese.  Most recent 15 years’ experience is teaching at University level in both England (University of Exeter, London Metropolitan University and Coventry University) and France (University of Paris, University of Calais), principally at the post graduate level in subjects related to investment management and financial risk management.

  • Qualifications


    Ph.D. in Economics ( University of Paris) 

    MBA in International Finance (University of California)

    BA in International Monetary Relations (University of California)

  • Memberships

    Chartered Financial Analyst
    CFA Institute
    VA
    USA
    Financial Risk Manager: Global Association of Risk Professionals
    NJ
    USA
    Senior Fellow: Higher Education Academy
    London
    UK
    S.F.A.F. (analyst association) in Paris
    France
    Accredited securities dealer of the Tokyo Securities Dealers Association
    Tokyo
    Japan

Teaching

With more than 15 years' of professional experience in Investment Management in major international investment banks and more than 20 years' experience at university level teaching, Randall is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a chartered Financial Risk Manager and am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.

He works closely with the CFA Association and the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

Research

  • Research and publications

    Regulatory Optimal Bank Size, April 2007 Status: published in International Advances in Economic Research (a refereed journal of the Atlantic Economic Association), May 2008

  • Conferences

    AS Roma Football Club: A Case Study Test of the Utility of the ECSI Model in Measuring Fan Satisfaction with Management , July 2015 co-authored with Gerardo Ghiradi, presented at the GFBL conference in London.

    Subjective Probability Distributions Extracted from Option Implied Volatility Derived Risk Neutral Distributions, July 2012 co-authored with Maria Vich-Llompart, presented at the IFABS conference in Spain July 2012 and the 2012 LMBS Conference.

    Reactivity in the Market for Federal Funds to Ambient Risk in the Equity Exchanges, April 2011 presented at the 2011 LMBS conference.

    An Empirical Investigation of the Fed Funds and Repos Markets Between Banks in the USA: Evidence of Rational Risk Aversion on the Part of Smaller Banks, January 2010, presented at the 2010 LMBS conference, published discussion paper of CICM.
     
    The Size of Banks and Exposure to Interbank Markets, June 2006 presented at the 2006 conference of the Multinational Finance Society.

    Optimal Bank Size from the Perspective of Systemic Risk, December 2004 presented at 2005 FMA conferences in both Europe and USA

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