DoctorHuong Dang

I am a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder and a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM). I have been the Principal Contact of the CFA Institute University Affiliation Program at the University of Canterbury (UC) since 2014. In my role, I process applications and offer scholarships to UC students to take the CFA exams, and ensure that our two affiliated programs - Bachelor of Commerce with a Major in Finance and Master of Financial Analysis - are closely aligned with the CFA Program curriculum. Being interested in financial education and giving back to the profession, I have been doing various volunteer work relating to the CFA Program, CFA Institute Research Challenge (Asia-Pacific and Western U.S. rounds), practice analysis, and professional misconduct monitoring for the CFA Institute. I was the organiser/ academic adviser and led UC student team to the top three performers in the national CFA Institute Research Challenge for a number of years.

I have been teaching at both undergraduate level (Fixed Income Securities, Investments) and postgraduate level (Equity Valuation, Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Credit Risk Management, Sustainable Finance). My teaching covers challenging topics included in the CFA Program curriculum, and helps students be well-prepared to take the CFA exams which have low pass rates. I have also led students to conduct research projects on applied finance topics, including those sponsored by Christchurch-based investment bank Northington Partners and financial advisory firm Bradley Nuttall (renamed Cambridge Partners), each resulted in a refereed publication. My students and Teaching/ Reseach Assistants have been offered analyst roles at financial institutions in Australia and New Zealand, and recently, the central government agency New Zealand Treasury.

My research portfolio includes multi-disciplinary studies on culture, credit risk, portfolio management, and sustainability. My co-authored research has been published in highly respected journals, for example, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Environmental Management. Since 2020, I have been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Accounting Research (Quartile 1/ Scimago) published by Emerald. I am also an Advisory Board member of the project “Resilient Investment for Sustainable Environments” (RISE-IN), a Consortium of 26 parties including the UC and Christchurch City Council working under the Horizon Europe Grant # 101214441 with an aim to narrowing the gap between environmental resilience and financial viability.