Sandy Chau was initially trained as an economist and got her Bachelor and Master Degree from the University of Alberta, Canada (1979-84). Her experience in the Hong Kong Stock market dated back to 1970s, when she worked part-time at the Brokerage Firm where her mother is the Licensed Stock Broker. At 18, Sandy became an Authorized Trader at the Kowloon Stock Exchange, later merged as Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
From 1995 to 2002, Sandy pursued her Ph.D in finance at the Hong Kong Baptist University. Her area of research is in the performance of H-Shares and Red Chip. Part of her Ph.D. research work had been published in Journal of Banking Finance & Accounting in 2003.
Currently she writes a weekly column on Behavior Finance in the Hong Kong Economic Journal. Since 2007, Sandy research focus is on Post Earning Announcement Drift. She has another research project with Professor Yu Ziyou from Lingnan University on Studying the Trading Preferences of Individual Investors in China.
After working in the banking and the advertising industries in HK for a short period, Sandy launched her career as full-time faculty at the Hong Kong Lingnan University from 1987- 2002. Since 2002, Sandy joined SPEED and teaches subjects in Economics, Management and Finance. Her current administrative duty is the program leader for BA in Policing and Public Order at SPEED. At present, she is the External Examiner of IVE for Higher Diploma and Diploma in Financial Planning and Investment and the External Advisor for the Chinese University-Tung Wah Community College.
Sandy is the HKCAA subject specialist for accreditation activities and implementation of Qualification Framework (QF). Since 2007, Sandy was invited to serve as external advisor for another Community College in Hong Kong.
Sandy¡¦s linkage with the commercial sectors is reflected by her role as advisor in the following trade associations: The Cosmetic and Perfumery Association of HK Ltd; Hong Kong Hair and Beauty Merchants Association; International Professional Nail Therapists Association.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Mok, H.M.K., Chau, S., (2003). Corporate Performance of Mixed Enterprises, Journal of Banking Finance & Accounting, April/May, 2003 pp.1-25
Chau, S., (1995).The Development of China¡¦s Private Entrepreneurship, Journal of Enterprising Culture, Volume 3, Number 3, September, 1995.
Conference Porceedings
Lam, K., Mok, H.M.K. & Chau, S., (2003). Fundamentals and Stock Returns of Mixed Enterprises, Proceedings of the ACME 2003 International Conference, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Chau, S., (1999) The Role of Firm-Related Variables in the Return-Generating Process of H-shares, Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference of Pacific Rim Management in San Francisco, U.S.A., 1999.
Chau, S., (1997) ¡§Changes in the Market Structure in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange: the Rise of red Chips and H-Shares¡¨, with China Development Institute, Shenzhen and Hong Kong-China Stock Market Research Committee, Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, June-September, 1997.
Lam, K., Chau, S., (1997) Valuation of Stock Price of Red Chips and H-shares: Notwithstanding the P/Es, Securities Market Herald, Shenzhen, July, 1997 with Professor Kin Lam, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Chau, S., (1996) Organization Design of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Learned Congress of Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association at the Brock University in Toronto, Canada, 1996.
Chau, S., (1994) A Conjecture on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange from Institutional Design Analysis. Proceedings of the Conference on Financing Development in Quangdong at the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, 1994.
Chau, S., (1994) Market Efficiency and Portfolio Management of Hong Kong Stocks in U.S. Funds. Proceedings of the First South China International Business Symposium at University of Macau, 1994.
Chau, S., (1993) Theoretical Contructs on People¡¦s Republic of China¡¦ Trade Negotiation after Re-entry to GATT. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Global Business Environment and Strategy in Taiwan, 1993. |
