Jot K. Yau, PhD, CFA

Professor
Robert D. O'Brien Chair 2007-09

PhD, Finance, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
CFA, Chartered Financial Analyst
MBA, Finance, University of Toledo
BSocS, Management Studies with Honors, University of Hong Kong

Phone: 206.296.5639

Office: Pigott 531B

Email: jyau@seattleu.edu

Department: Finance

Web Address: N/A

Teaching Areas: Finance, International Business, MBA - Masters of Business Administration

Syllabus for:

FINC 491 Investment Practicum
FINC 591 Hedge Funds

In the News:

Jot Yaus article on the performance of hedge funds, Do Hedge Fund Managers Display Skill? was featured in a story appearing in Financial News Online on June 14, 2004.

Jot Yau, associate professor of economics and finance, has been appointed Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance for a three-year period covering FY05-FY07. Yau is replacing Barb Yates, professor of finance, who has served as department chair since 1989.

- Broadway Madison
May 11, 2004 

Jot Yau contributed an essay to a debate entitled, Derivative strategies should be used by investment managers only to lower risk exposures. The piece appeared in the March/April 2004 issue of CFA Magazine, which reaches 65,000 investment professionals worldwide, 76 percent of whom hold the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Jot Yau's co-authored article, "The Linkage of REIT Income- and Price-Returns with Fundamental Economic Variables, was published Summer 2003 in The Journal of Alternative Investments.

Jot Yau, associate professor of finance, presented his co-authored paper entitled, Do Hedge Fund Managers Display Skill? at the annual conference of Financial Management Association in Denver in October 2003. It has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Alternate Investments.

Jot Yau presented a paper entitled "Performance of Global Hedge Funds: An Analysis of Risk, Return and Market Timing at the annual conference of Financial Management Association in San Antonio in October 2002. The paper has also been accepted for publication in Financial Analysts Journal. He also chaired a session on "Raising Capital" at the same conference.  

Jot Yau co-authored a chapter on "Financial Futures Markets" that appears in Handbook of Modern Finance, 2002-3 Edition, published by Warren Gorham & Lamont. 

Jot Yau has been appointed to the Candidate Curriculum Committee of the Chartered Financial Analyst Exam Program as one of the six topic area coordinators. He will be responsible for reviewing existing curriculum and designing new curriculum in the areas of his specialty, derivatives and alternative investments.

Jot Yau spoke at the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) 2001 Western Region Conference in Maui, HI in November, 2001.  He presented "Should You Make Alternative Investments A Part of Your Practice?" to members of NAPFA.  He was also the moderator of a roundtable forum on hedge funds at the same conference.

Jot Yau  presented a paper titled "The Rise and Fall of a Financial Futures Markets: The Red-Chip Index Futures of Hong Kong," at the Financial Management Association meeting in Toronto, October 16 - 19, 2001

Professional History:
 

Dr. Yau is Professor and Chair of the Department of Finance at the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University where he teaches investments, portfolio management, hedge funds and international financial management. Prior to joining Seattle University in 2001, he taught at George Mason University for 13 years. He also worked for Kidder, Peabody, Shearson/American Express, Dow Chemical, and Independent Research and Consulting.

He has served as the Associate Editor and has been an editorial board member of The Journal of Alternative Investments since 2001, the only U.S. journal dedicated to scholarly and applied research in alternative investments. His areas of research are hedge fund investments, microstructure of derivatives markets, international asset allocation and Chinas economy. He has published numerous articles in the scholarly and practitioner finance journals. His publications have appeared in the top journals in the following areas of specialization: derivatives, alternative investments, and practitioner-oriented investment analysis including Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Alternative Investments, and Financial Analysts Journal. He has also published in professional publications, such as the CFA Magazine and the Handbook of Modern Finance.

He co-founded and managed Strategic Options Investment Advisors Ltd., a Hong Kong-based investment advisory firm serving high net-worth individuals from 1998-2005 while he was a registered investment advisor and commodity trading advisor. He has conducted investment seminars and training courses for financial/investment practitioners. He has also developed curriculum materials for the CFA Program as well as distance-learning courses for the Open University of Hong Kong. He has served on the curriculum and exam committees of the CFA Program and CAIA Programs. He is a member of the Finance/AL Committee of GHCU, a Seattle-based credit union.

Dr Yau holds a B.Soc.Sc. (Hons) degree in Management Studies and Economics from the University of Hong Kong, an MBA from the University of Toledo, and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a CFA charterholder. He was also a former Chartered Secretary (ACIS) from the U.K.