Time: 08:30-10:00am, September 24, 2012

Venue: Alibaba Auditorium, Guanghua Building #2, Peking University

Topic:Meeting the Global Challenge of Funding Retirement:A Case Study of Financial Innovation and Engineering in the Design and Implementation of a Solution

Speaker：Robert C. Mertonis the School of ManagementDistinguished Professorof Financeat the MIT Sloan School of Management andUniversity Professor Emeritusat Harvard University. He was the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration (1988-98) and the John and Natty McArthur University Professor (1998-2010) at HarvardBusiness School. Merton served on the finance faculty of MIT’s Sloan School of Management until 1988. He is currently Resident Scientist at Dimensional Fund Advisors, where he is the developer of Managed DC, an integrated retirement-funding solution system with global application that addresses the deficiencies associated with traditional defined-benefit and defined-contribution pension plans. He served as an independent director on the boards of the Dimensional Funds from 2003-2009.

Merton received theAlfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciencesin 1997 for a new method to determine the value of derivatives. He is past president of the American Finance Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.