Assistant Professor, Finance-Economics
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Alessandro Previtero is a Finance Assistant Professor at the Ivey Business School at the Western University. Alessandro joined Ivey in 2010 after being a Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCLA Anderson School. Previously, Alessandro earned a PhD from the University of Lecce and worked as Lecturer and Research Fellow at Bocconi University of Milan (Italy).
Alessandro's research is in the field of behavioral finance, a branch of financial economics that incorporates insights from individual and social psychology in modern financial theory. More specifically, his current research projects include: household investment and saving decisions; pre and post retirement financial decisions; the value of financial advice; and strategies of successful (value) investors.
His work has been published in top academics journal such as the Journal of Economic Perspectives and has been covered by - among the others - the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Montreal Gazette and MacLean's.
Alessandro has been an Academic Board Member for the ING Institute for Retirement Research. He is currently one of the Academic Advisors for the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), a workplace pension plan promoted by the British government and expected to reach three to six millions members in the near future.
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