Vinicio Almeida

April 2024

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)

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