Jennifer Conrad is an investments and finance expert focusing on asset pricing, capital markets, institutional investing, and portfolio management. Professor Conrad has been retained as an expert witness and has provided testimony at deposition and trial on investment issues, market efficiency, loss causation, class certification, and damages in ERISA matters, as well as Rule 10b-5 and Section 11 securities class actions.
Professor Conrad has extensive experience in ERISA matters. Her testimony on fund performance in Mattson v. Milliman Inc. was cited multiple times in the judge’s post-trial ruling in favor of the defense. In Huang et al. v. TriNet Plans et al., the judge’s ruling in favor of summary judgment closely followed Professor Conrad’s analyses of alleged excessive fees and inappropriate investment.
In her current work, Professor Conrad researches the relation between credit default swaps and the equity market, and the determinants and effects of high-frequency trading. Her earlier research concentrated on the causes of predictable patterns in returns and trading strategies related to these patterns, such as contrarian investing.
Professor Conrad has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. She speaks regularly at academic and professional conferences and has given presentations at the University of Oxford, Georgetown, Stanford, the London Business School, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, among others.
For more than two decades, Professor Conrad has taught corporate finance, financial management, and investments courses to graduate and undergraduate students. She has won several teaching awards and has been honored for research and faculty mentoring. Professor Conrad served as the interim dean and senior associate dean for academic affairs at the Kenan-Flagler Business School.
A past president and board member of the Financial Management Association International (FMA), Professor Conrad also served as chair of the FMA’s Board of Trustees. She has also been a member of the boards of directors of the Western Finance Association (WFA) and the American Finance Association (AFA).