Investments & Portfolio Management
Asset pricing, portfolio construction, security analysis, risk, fixed income, derivatives, and the practical discipline of making investment choices under uncertainty.
Numbers matter. So does the judgment behind them.
I am a Professor of Finance at Al-Akhawayn University and a researcher interested in valuation, markets, investor behavior, governance, and the difficult space between a model and the person using it.
Finance should be rigorous without becoming bloodless.
I want students to understand the model, but also its assumptions, its limits, and what changes when a real person has to make the decision. That means moving comfortably between theory, evidence, market practice, and judgment.
Valuation & Corporate Finance
How firms are valued, how expectations enter the price of a business, and how financial decisions shape the future investors believe they are buying.
Behavior & Decision-Making
The human layer of finance: judgment, narratives, confidence, incentives, attention, and the behavioral forces that complicate otherwise elegant models.
Research
Questions I keep returning to.
My current research sits at the intersection of valuation, investor behavior, governance, narratives, and financial institutions. The common thread is an interest in how expectations become decisions — and how those decisions acquire authority.
Corporate valuation / governance
The Present Value of the Not-Yet
How organizations give authority to imagined corporate futures, and how expectations about what has not happened yet begin to shape present decisions.
Islamic finance / banking
Why Profit-and-Loss Sharing Remains Marginal
Information frictions, monitoring costs, and the economic conditions that make theoretically attractive risk-sharing arrangements difficult to sustain in practice.
Investor trust / corporate narratives
Beyond the Numbers
How corporate narratives influence investor trust when financial communication is increasingly filtered, generated, and interpreted through AI-enabled systems.
Behavioral finance / trading
Trait-Activated Trading
A behavioral model of how trader characteristics become activated by market conditions, changing the probability that knowledge translates into disciplined execution.
A working principle
A model can be correct and still be used badly.
Teaching. Research. Supervision.
I work across undergraduate, graduate, and applied finance contexts, with particular interest in investment analysis, portfolio management, valuation, behavioral finance, and research that connects formal models to observed decision-making.
This page is a record of the academic side of my work: teaching, research, supervision, and the questions I continue to pursue.
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