Keith Anderson
Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

Profile

Biography

Before entering academia I worked for some years as a systems developer, including several years at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt. For my Finance PhD at the ICMA Centre, Reading University, I showed that different ways of calculating the Price-Earnings ratio could significantly improve investor returns. I worked as a lecturer at Durham University Business School for two years before moving to York in 2008.

At the School for Business and Society I am Chairman of the Griff Investment Fund. Griff is one of the oldest real-money Student Managed Investment Funds (SMIFs) in the UK, and organise SMIFUK, the only SMIF conference outside the US.

Griff Investment Fund Website

Research

Overview

My research interests revolve around making academic finance more useful to investors, for example:

• Value and contrarian investing
• Improving company statistics for investors e.g. the price-earnings ratio and Piotroski’s Fscore
• How investors can profit from the biases revealed by behavioural finance
• Identifying and measuring stock market bubbles

Publications

Full publications list

Please see an up-to-date list on PURE.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Behavioural Finance (final year undergraduate)

Postgraduate

Stock Investment and Trading (Masters)