Finance-Seminar

The University of Hawaii K.J. Luke Financial Executive Program represents an important outreach program to be initiated by the Office of the K.J. Luke Chair of International Finance and Banking. The Program is committed to introducing participating financial executives to the current state of Asia-Pacific financial markets and state-of-art finance theories and practices in the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific region. The Program will strengthen the University of Hawaii’s leading role of serving as a bridge between the financial systems in the East and West.

1. Unique Characteristics of the Program

The most unique aspect of the Program is participating financial executives play a dual role. As well as being trainees of the program, financial executives serve as experts on their respective countries. Through this unique dual role-playing, the participants not only have the opportunity to improve their oral and written communication skills, but also benefit from the knowledge and experiences of the fellow participants.

Truly an international network will be created among the participating executives from each of the Asia-Pacific countries, United States, and Europe.

Leading experts/financial institutions in each of the topic areas will serve as guest lecturers.

Participating financial executives will also be part of the K. J. Luke Annual Symposium on the Asia-Pacific Financial Markets scheduled concurrently. They will be able to interact with financial market policy makers and CEOs of the stock/futures exchanges in the Asia-Pacific region.

2. Coverage of the Program

The program covers a wide range of topics, including:

policy issues related to the development of fixed-income securities, equity, financial derivatives markets
trading system and market microstructure issues
management of market liquidity and volatility
capital adequacy of capital market institutions
market regulatory issues
risk management related to clearing and settlement
corporate governance and financial disclosure
portfolio investment management
risk hedging using financial derivatives.

Each year, several focused topics are selected as themes of the group discussions and in-depth analyses.

3. Collaboration with Globally-Recognized Leading Financial Institutions

The Program will invite well known outside experts from the financial sector in the United States, Europe, and Asia to lecture on selected topics.

4. Target Institutions for the Program

Asia-Pacific Region: Capital Market Regulatory Agencies

Stock/futures Exchanges

Brokerage Houses

Mutual Funds

Credit Rating Agencies

U.S. and Europe: Brokerage Houses

Mutual Funds and Trust Funds

Commercial Banks

5. Frequency of the Program

The frequency of the Program will be determined by the demand.

6. Length of the Program

A three-week period (including one-week field trip) is the normal length of the Program, but it can be flexible.

7. Venue of the Program

The Program will be offered in Honolulu, USA.

8. Size of the Program

An optimal size of 30 participants will be maintained.

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