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The Bureau of Asset Management (BAM) was formed in 1990
with two key objectives. First, BAM is to encourage and promote research in the
broad range of topics under the theme of "asset management". Second, BAM is to
improve the amount and quality of communication between the Faculty of Commerce
and the business community.
Given the broadest interpretation, asset management
covers real assets, financial assets and corporate assets. Members of the
Finance, Urban Land Economics, and other Faculty of Commerce divisions are
actively researching topics in these areas, and the business community would
find many of the results of interest.
BAM will carry out this objective through several forums,
including "executive briefing sessions", in which highly regarded academics and
practitioners share their research results with the business community, and
longer round-table discussions involving academics and practitioners, designed
to explore important asset management problems and solutions. Seminars with
presentations by expert practitioners and academics are also offered. Finally,
BAM will provide research support to faculty members to encourage them to carry
out research in a broad range of topics in asset management.
In these BAM events, the business community can provide
valuable guidance by sharing with the faculty their view of important asset
management problems and restrictions.
Initial capital funding to establish the BAM endowment
was provided by: The Real Estate Foundation of B.C.,
The Vancouver Stock Exchange and The Faculty of Commerce, UBC
Additional research funds have been received from ICREIM.
This financial support is gratefully acknowledged.
Director: Professor Stanley Hamilton
Associate
Director: Professor Robert Heinkel
Associate Director: Professor Ron
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