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Recent Talks

A Machine Learning Plus-Features Based Approach for Optimal Asset Allocation, invited talk, Blackrock, New York, November, 2023.

A Machine Learning Plus-Features Based Approach for Optimal Asset Allocation (with the Fintual team), 4th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance, New York, November, 2023.

El Régimen de Inversiones del Sistema Chileno de Pensiones: Diagnóstico y Recomendaciones, ICARE Seminar, Santiago, Chile, October, 2023.

The Worth of Art: Financial Tools for the Art Markets, (with V. Charlin), invited talk, Christie’s, New York, October, 2023.

The Worth of Art: Financial Tools for the Art Markets, (with V. Charlin), Clapes UC Seminar, Patricia Ready Art Gallery, Santiago, Chile, August, 2023.

The Worth of Art: Financial Tools for the Art Markets, (with V. Charlin), invited talk, Larraín Vial, Wealth Management Division, Santiago, Chile, August, 2023.

Investing in Picasso: What Have We Learned?, Bloomberg Financial Engineering Seminar, New York, June, 2023.

Los Fondos de Pensiones Chilenos y sus Políticas de Inversión: Una Conversación Necesaria, Clapes UC Seminar, Santiago, Chile, March, 2023.

El Mercado Inmobiliario: Índices y Reflexiones, Clapes Seminar, Santiago, Chile, December 2022.

Chile: Past, Present, and (What Kind of) Future?, invited talk delivered to Portland University MBA students visiting Chile at the request of Austral Group, Santiago, Chile, August 2022.

Markowitz and the Portfolio Selection Problem: A Critical Assessment, Clapes Seminar, Santiago, Chile, August 2022.

ESG Investing: Theory & Practice, Clapes Seminar, Santiago, Chile, May 2022.

The Influence of Weather on the Quality and Price of Wine, Bloomberg Quant Seminar, New York City, April 2022.

Chile and its Capital Markets, invited talk for UCLA MBA students visiting Chile, at the request of Prof. Sebastian Edwards from UCLA, Santiago, Chile, March 2022.

Innovación Financiera y Regulación: Lo Bueno, lo Malo, y lo Nuevo, Clapes (Zoom) Seminar, Santiago, Chile, June 2021.

Crimen y Delincuencia: Impacto en el Mercado Inmobiliario y la Calidad de Vida en la Ciudad, Clapes (Zoom) Seminar, Santiago, Chile, March 2021.

El Mercado Inmobiliario Después de la Pandemia, Clapes (Zoom) Seminar, Santiago, Chile, November 2020.

Price and Color Preferences in Josef Albers Square Series, Bloomberg Quant (Zoom) Seminar, New York, October 2020.

Riesgo Sistémico y el Sistema Financiero, Clapes (Zoom) Seminar, Santiago, Chile, September 2020.

Rethinking the Meaning of Economic Value, Clapes (Zoom) Seminar, Santiago, Chile, July 2020.

Reflexiones sobre los Criterios ESG, Clapes (Zoom) Seminar, Santiago, Chile, June 2020.

Financiamiento privado de infraestructura de uso público, Seminar (Zoom) organized by the Chilean Council of Infrastructure Development, Santiago, Chile, May 2020.

Finance & the Art Market, invited talk, Georgia State University, Finance Department, Atlanta, March 2020.

Art-Secured Lending: a General Approach to Estimate Risk, Bloomberg Quant Seminar, New York, October 2019.

Art as an Alternative Investment, panel discussion, Columbia Business School Alumni Seminar, New York, October 2019.

Invirtiendo en un Mundo Complicado: Consideraciones sobre las Inversiones Sustentables, Annual Meeting, Chilean Association of Insurance Companies, Viña del Mar, Chile, October 2019.

Pricing Beauty: Is It Risky to Invest in Art? Columbia Global Center Conference, Santiago, Chile, September 2019.

Pricing Art Guarantees in the Art Market, Bloomberg Quant Seminar, New York, June, 2019.

On the Investment Guidelines of the Chilean Pension Funds: Diagnosis & Recommendations, Consejo Técnico de Inversiones, Chilean Pension Funds Supervision Office, Santiago, June 2019.

Pension Funds & Portfolio Management: Lessons from Chile and Mexico, IMF presentation, Washington  D.C., April 2019.

Pension Funds and Portfolio Management: Lessons from Mexico & Chile, Columbia University, New York, Mathematics Department, Finance Seminar, April 2019.

Pension Funds in Latin America, invited talk, Yale University, School of Management, New Haven, CT, April 2019.

Pension Systems and Investment Regulations, Seminar Clapes UC, Santiago, Chile, March 2019.

Price and Color: The Paintings of Mark Rothko, Bloomberg Quant Seminar, New York, October 2018.

Finance and the Art Markets, Annual Meeting, Chilean Association of Investment Funds, Viña del Mar, Chile, September 2018.

Capital Basado en Riesgo, Contexto y Desafíos, Annual Meeting, Chilean Association of Insurance Companies, Viña del Mar, Chile, September 2018.

The Lehman Bankruptcy, Before & After, Clapes UC Seminar, Santiago, Chile, September 2018.

The Lehman Bankruptcy, Ten Years Later, Libertad y Desarrollo Seminar, Santiago, Chile, September 2018..

Finance & the Art Markets, Harvard University Club, Art Experts Symposia Seminar, New York, June 2018. more info

Credit Risk Behavior of Homogeneous Portfolios, Columbia University, Mathematics Department, Finance Seminar, April 2018.

The intellectual bankruptcy of the Discounted Cash Flow method, Bloomberg Quant Seminar, New York, October 2017.

Finance and its Challenges, California Institute of Technology, Division of Humanities and Social Science Seminar, invited talk, Pasadena, California, October 2017.

What’s New in the Financial Markets? Invited talk, Annual Meeting of the Chilean Association of Investment Funds, Viña del Mar, Chile, September 2017.

Valuation of Infrastructure Projects: Recent Advances & Pending Issues, CLAPES UC Seminar, Santiago, Chile, August 2017.

Valuation of Infrastructure Investments, invited talk, Comité Técnico de Inversiones, Superintendencia de Pensiones, Santiago, Chile, December 2016.

Paintings Are Just Expensive Real Estate, talk presented at the Bloomberg Quant Seminar, New York, November 2016.

Entorno Macrofinanciero de los Directorios, Seminar sponsored by Deloitte/ University of Chile and co-organized with Dr. Guillermo Larrain, Santiago, Chile, October-November 2016.

Chilean Investors Forum, panelist, Asset Allocation Strategies for Institutional Investors’ forum, Santiago, Chile, September, 2016.

Chile & The Global Financial Markets, talk for UCLA MBA students visiting Chile, at the request of Prof. Sebastian Edwards from UCLA, Santiago, December 2015.

Chilean Investors Forum, panelist, Chilean Capital Markets: Structure and Regulation; and moderator, Investing,  Issuing and Understanding Corporate Debt, Santiago, Chile, November 2015.

Systemic Risk and Financial Systems: a Numerical Simulation Approach, Superintendencia de Bancos e Instituciones Financieras, Invited Talk, Santiago, Chile, November 2015.

Systemic Risk and Financial Systems: a Numerical Simulation Approach, Financial Seminar Series, Universidad A. Hurtado/ Ilades, Santiago, Chile, May 2015.

Credit Risk Assessment of Fixed Income Portfolios: and Analytical Approach, Primera Jornada de Regulación y Estabilidad Macrofinanciera, University of Chile, Faculty of Economics and Business, Santiago, Chile, January 2014.

Credit Ratings in the Chilean Fixed Income Market: Some Empirical Observations, Primera Jornada de Regulación y Estabilidad Macrofinanciera, University of Chile, Faculty of Economics and Business, Santiago, Chile, January 2014.

Capital Basado en Riesgo: Antecedentes, Reflexiones y Peligros, talk delivered at the Annual Convention of the Chilean Association of Insurance Companies, Viña del Mar, Chile, October 2013.

Recomendaciones de la Comisión Desormeaux, Seminar organized by Libertad y Desarrollo, keynote speaker, Santiago, Chile, July 2013.

Inversionistas Institucionales: Riesgos, Beneficios, y Desafios Regulatorios, lecture delivered at the Integracion Financiera Latinoamericana Conference, University of Chile, Centro de Regulación y Estabilidad Macrofinanciera,  Santiago, Chile, January 2013.