Investment Analysis (Security Analysis)

Investment Management (Portfolio Analysis)

Derivative Securities
Cases in Finance

Corporation Finance

I received my Ph.D., and M.Phil., degrees in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, New York University (NYU), in 1978, currently referred to as Stern Schools of Business. I was granted the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in September 1997.
I have been teaching on a full time basis in the areas of investments, and corporation finance since 1978. I was an NYU Scholar-in-Residence in 1990 during my first academic sabbatical leave, and a Visiting Associate at Yale in 1997 during my second sabbatical leave. My name has appeared in the 1998 edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers; The Best Teachers in America Selected by the Best Students, as well as in Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 2000-2001. I was the winner of the Barney Excellence in Research Award, 2001, and became a member of the Beta, Gamma, Sigma, 2001. I have been teaching on a full time basis at the University of Hartford since 1980.

Education: Ph.D., Finance, New York University, (Stern) Graduate School of Business, 1978, M.Phil. New York University, (Stern) Graduate School of Business, 1978, M. B. A., University of New Haven, 1973, B. S., Economics, University of Tehran (Iran), 1969, Chartered Financial Analyst ( CFA ), September 1997

Research Interests: Portfolio Pension Planning and Assessment Process, Investment Portfolio Design For Funding Retirement Expenditures, U.S. Treasury Inflation-Indexed Bonds, Corporate Governance: Theory and Practice, Financial Plan for Funding College Education Expenses.

Professional Activities: Member, the CFA Institute and the Hartford CFA society.

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