Vinicio Almeida
Vinicio Almeida
Associate Professor of Finance, UFRN/PPGA
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Graduate School of Business - PPGA
Federal University at Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=S-KEieUAAAAJ&hl=pt-BR
Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5861723290897089
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinicioalmeida
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August 2025
AREAS OF INTEREST
Research / Teaching Derivatives, Portfolio Management, Quantitative Trading
EDUCATION
Coppead Graduate School of Business / Federal University at Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, 2010
D.Sc. in Business Administration (Finance)
State University at Ceará - UECE, 2005
B.S. in Business Administration
EMPLOYMENT
Federal University at Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN, 2010-present
Professor of Finance
Banco do Brasil S.A., 2000-2010
Portfolio Management, Investment Banking, Financial Distress and Recovery, International Finance
OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
UCLA Anderson School of Management, Research Scholar, 2015
Reviewer at Academia-Revista Latinoamericana de Administracion, Applied Financial Economics, Brazilian Business Review, Brazilian Review of Finance, Revista de Administração Mackenzie, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance and others
Ad-hoc reviewer and presentations on several conferences such as AIB Annual Meeting, Balas Annual Conference, Enanpad Meeting, Encontro Brasileiro de Finanças, Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, EFMA Annual Meeting
Speaker at seminars on investments at Brazilian Air Force, Fundação Getúlio Vargas-FGV, UFRJ/Coppead, UFRN and other institutions
WORKING PAPERS
Put insurance in Brazil and US (with Thiago Almeida)
Fixed income indexes in Brazil (with Robson Carvalho)
Volatility smiles and the pricing of options
SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Sell-side analysts make good target price forecasts in Brazil? Brazilian Review of Finance, v. 13, n. 3, 2015 (with Melquíades Júnior)
A minimum variance index for Brazilian stocks. Economia Aplicada, v. 15, n. 4, 2011 (with César Neto and Ricardo Leal)
Underwriter reputation in Brazilian IPOs. Latin American Business Review, v. 12, n. 4, 2010
AWARDS, CERTIFICATIONS AND GRANTS
Certified Portfolio Manager, Comissão de Valores Mobiliários - CVM (Brazilian equivalent to SEC), 2016
Best Publication, National Association of Capital Markets Professionals, with Melquíades Júnior, 2014
Grant on Investments Research, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq, 2012
Best Thesis Project, National Association of Investment Banks (ANBIMA), 2008
DOCTORAL STUDENTS SUPERVISION
Advisor
Lemuel Lemos Romão, XP Inc.
Robson Goes de Carvalho, 2021, Universidade de Pernambuco
Giovanna Tonetto Segantini, 2019, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Melquíades Pereira de Lima Júnior, 2014, Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Commitee Member
Flávia Schwartz Maranho, 2018, Centro Universitário Celso Lisboa
João Marcelo Alves Macedo, 2017, Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Álvaro Luiz Magalhães Marques, 2016, Banco Central do Brasil
Ruy Bonates de Almeida Júnior, 2016, self-employed
Allan Rodrigues Silva, 2015, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate level
Behavioral Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Econometrics, Python for Finance, Theory of Finance
Undergraduate level
Financial Management, Portfolio Management
Other courses
Several short courses on financial management and investments at Banco do Brasil S.A., UFRJ/Coppead, UFRN
PERSONAL
Brazilian, born 3/17/1980
Interests
Climbing with Lennon, Serra Caiada, RN, Brazil, 2021
Lennon and Camila, Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 2020
Leandro Erlich's La Pileta Exhibition, Museo Malba, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019
Hiking with Camila, Serra da Rajada, Maranguape, CE, Brazil, 2019
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