Media Coverage
Interviews & Newspaper Comments
$160^2$ Degrees Research Magazin
Our article "Learning from Alternative Data" (together with Othar Kordsachia) has appeared in the Research Magazine $160^2$ - November 2022
Denkraum 2017
The University based journal “Denkraum” has published an interview with me on "Research with Foresight" (in german) - November 2017
Press Coverage
Cryptocurrency Machine Learning Challenge
Machine Learning in Finance: The winners of my Cryptocurrency Kaggle challenge were awarded 1'000 CHF by Bank Frick**: In my core elective Innovative Finance: Data Science and Machine Learning II student teams competed against each other in a Cryptocurrency challenge hosted on Kaggle. Bank Frick sponsored an award of 1'000 CHF to the three winners of the challenge: Team Moon Predictions (Markus Wabnig, Yannick Strobl and Alireza Mottaghi)wowchemy gallery
Bachelor and Master Thesis 2020
Best Bachelor and Master Thesis 2020**: I have supervised both, the best Bachelor Thesis (Timothy Rist: “Long/Short Momentum-Strategie am Kryptowährungsmarkt”) as well as the best Master Thesis (Dominik Kaiser: Momentum meets Uncertainty). I congratulate both students for their dedication to their respective topics and for the very good work that they have done!
The American Presidential election 2020
Is Amazon a Biden or Trump stock?**: We have published a number of articles before the American Presidential Election 2020 using results from our 2020 JBF-Paper to select Trump and Biden-Stocks.
Innosuisse Project “An ESG-based Investment Case for Absolute Return Funds”
Start of Innosuisse Project “An ESG-based Investment Case for Absolute Return Funds”**: Press Conference to announce successful application for Innosuisse Grant with Liechtensteinische Landesbank.
Finance Award 2019
Finance Award 2019 der Universität Liechtenstein**: I have supervised three out of six nominated theses (Dominik Brändle “BSc Thesis: Portfolio Optimization in a Cryptocurrency Environment: An Omega Optimization”, Bruno Jäger “MSc Thesis: Multi-Factor Timing” and Artur Maibach “MSc Thesis: Cross-Sectional Volatility and the Prediction of Factor Premia”). I am very happy that Bruno Jäger won this years Finance Award for his exceptional Master thesis on “Multi-Factor Timing”!
- Website News
- TV Coverage on 1 FL TV with interview by me
- Volksblatt
34. AWG Workshop
34. Workshop of the Austrian Working Group on Banking and Finance** (organized by me) took place on November 22/23, 2019 at the University of Liechtenstein
Conference: “Pension Finance and the Teaching of Pension Finance”
Pension Finance and the Teaching of Pension Finance** (organized by me) took place on August 29, 2019 at the University of Liechtenstein
- Website News
- Wirtschaft regional
- TV Coverage on 1 FL TV (starting 0.43)
Research Prize for Young Scholar
[Prize of the Principality of Liechtenstein for Young Researchers 2015](/media/mediacoverage/Liechtenstein-Preis an Nachwuchsforschende der Universität Liechtenstein verliehen — Universität Liechtenstein.pdf)**: On November 9, 2015 I received the “Liechtenstein-Preis an Nachwuchsforschende” for my publication Decision Support for IT Investment Projects.
- [Press release Li](/media/mediacoverage/Landesverwaltung Liechtenstein_Medienmitteilung_Forschungspreis.pdf)
- [Press release University](/media/mediacoverage/Liechtenstein-Preis an Nachwuchsforschende der Universität Liechtenstein verliehen — Universität Liechtenstein.pdf)
- [Vaterland](/media/mediacoverage/Liechtensteiner Vaterland - Meistgelesene Tageszeitung in Liechtenstein _ Liechtenstein-Preis verliehen.pdf)
- [Volksblatt](/media/mediacoverage/Liechtensteiner Volksblatt-Liechtenstein-Preis für Nachwuchsforschende verliehen)