The Financial Services Forum at the College of Management is a source of current information and commentary on the health and critical issues facing the financial services industry in Boston and nationally. The Forum has already released nationally recognized studies on the industry,The Hedge Fund Explosion: Is the Bang Worth the Buck?, Down But Not Out: The Future of the Financial Services Industry, The Mutual Fund Industry Investigation: Timing Isn’t Everything, and The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 And its Effects on American Business. The Forum also publishes the Financial Services Alert which provides discussion and opinion on the critical events shaping the future of the sector. The Forum also has its own Working Paper Series with papers focusing on various topics including those of particular interest to the Boston financial community.

Introducing the Massachusetts Investment Sentiment Index

The Forum is very excited to introduce the Massachusetts Investor Sentiment Index. This Index is constructed daily using stock price information on firms in the Massachusetts Bloomberg Index. It quickly captures reactions of stock market participants to news related to firms that have a significant presence in Massachusetts and news related to the regional and the national economy.

Professor Arindam Bandopadhyaya, chair of CM’s Department of Accounting and Finance, is the CM Financial Services Forum Director; Assistant Professors Atreya Chakraborty, James Grant, and Anne Jones are the CM Financial Services Forum Research Associates.

Professor Arindam Bandopadhyaya, CM Financial Services Forum Director, panelist at Funding Innovation, Finding Growth: Angel Investors & Emerging Business in New England

Edward D’Alelio, CM Executive-In-Residence, Financial Services Forum Board of Advisors

Financial Markets Insights: A Conversation
L. to r. Marius Popescu, faculty, Arindam Bandopadhyaya, Chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance and the Director of the Financial Services Forum, Grace Fey, CM Executive-in Residence, John Minehan, New England Pension Consultants, Lal Chugh, faculty, Andrea Goggin, CM Student Services Specialist, and Jim Grant, faculty

Michael Costello
Managing Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Master Class in Accounting

Funding Innovation, Finding Growth: Angel Investors & Emerging Business in New England at UMass Boston

Professor Atreya “Chuck” Chakraborty, Financial Services Forum Research Associate, at The Hedge Fund Explosion: Has the Bang Been Worth the Buck?

Arindam Bandopadhyaya, Director of the Financial Services Forum

A College of Management Conference
in The Vault at the Boston Stock Exchange

Roger W. Ferguson
Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System addressing CM's The Future of the Financial Services Industry Conference in the Vault at the Boston Stock Exchange

L. to R. Lawrence Gennari JD, partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart and CM and Professor Arindam Bandopadhyaya at the Sarbanes Oxley & the Future of Public Accounting event

CM Financial Services Forum
at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston