Biography
Hugues Langlois holds a Masters in Financial Engineering (2008) from HEC Montreal and a BCom in Finance and Economics (2006) and a PhD in Finance (2014) from McGill University.
His main area of research is asset pricing with a special emphasis on investment management. His work has been published in the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, and the Review of Finance. His work on return asymmetries was awarded the 2015 Crowell First Prize from PanAgora Asset Management. Hugues also worked from 2007 to 2013 as a portfolio manager at a financial institution in Canada.
Hugues Langlois created in 2016 the AXA-HEC MOOC Investment Management in an Evolving and Volatile World. This online course, whose lectures are jointly given by Hugues and managers at AXA Investment Management, introduces learners to asset management. So far more than 15,000 learners have enrolled to follow the course on the online platform Coursera.
Hugues Langlois is also the co-author of Rational Investing – The Subtleties of Asset Management, a short and non-technical book that gives an overview of the current state of practice and academic research in asset management.
Scientific articles
Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming,
Review of Finance, March 2018, vol. 22, n° 2, pp 521-560,
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, October 2013, vol. 48, n° 5, pp 1371-1404,
Review of Financial Studies, December 2012, vol. 25, n° 12, pp 3711-3751,
Books
Columbia University Press
Chapters edited in books
Numerical Methods In Finance, R. Carmona, P. del Moral, P. Hu and N. Oudjane (Eds), Springer, Berlin, 145-170
Working papers
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018
Scientific articles
Review of Finance, March 2018, vol. 22, n° 2, pp 521-560,
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, October 2013, vol. 48, n° 5, pp 1371-1404,
Review of Financial Studies, December 2012, vol. 25, n° 12, pp 3711-3751,
Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming,
Books
Columbia University Press
Chapters edited in books
Numerical Methods In Finance, R. Carmona, P. del Moral, P. Hu and N. Oudjane (Eds), Springer, Berlin, 145-170
Working papers
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018
Education
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Ph.D. in Management (Finance), McGill University, Faculty of Management - Canada
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M.Sc. Financial Engineering, HEC Montréal - Canada
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Bachelor of Commerce, McGill University, Faculty of Management - Canada
Academic appointments
Academic responsabilities at HEC
- 2014- Assistant Professor, Finance HEC Paris
- 2014- Member of GREGHEC (CNRS) HEC Paris
External Academic Responsabilities
- 2012-2014 Instructor McGill University, Faculty of Management
- 2006-2007 Teaching Assistant HEC Montréal
Scientific Activities
Editorial activities
Awards & honors
- 2016 Inquire Europe
- 2015 2015 PanAgora Crowell Prize for his paper, Asset Pricing with Return Asymmetries: Theory and Tests.