Biography:
Mark has been Professor of Finance at Bradford University School of Management
since 2006. Prior to this, he held full-time academic appointments at the Exeter
Centre for Finance and Investment (University of Exeter) and the University of
Warwick. He has also held visiting academic positions at the Kellogg Graduate
School of Management (Northwestern University), the University of California,
Irvine, and the University of
Technology, Sydney.
Before becoming an academic, Mark worked as an equity research analyst
specialising in the brewing and distilling industries for stockbrokers Savory Milln and
James Capel, in London. He also has corporate finance experience with United
Distillers, in Scotland.
Mark is interested in long-run finance; particularly (i) Explaining low frequency stock
market movements over the last century, (ii) Estimating expected long-term returns
for investment portfolios and (iii) Discounting far distant cash flows for valuation
purposes.