Magnus Dahlquist

Magnus Dahlquist is the Handelsbanken Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). He is also a Research Fellow with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London & Paris.

Dahlquist obtained his doctoral degree in 1995 at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. He joined SSE in 1996 and taught at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University between 1998 and 2002. Dahlquist was the Director of the Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) in Stockholm between 2003 and 2008.

Dahlquist’s research interests lie in asset management, asset pricing, and international finance. His current research focuses on (i) individuals’ and institutions’ investment behavior and the design of pension plans, (ii) trading strategies in the bond and currency markets and their relation to fundamentals, and (iii) performance evaluation and practical issues related to asset management.

Dahlquist has taught courses on asset management, corporate finance, debt instruments and markets, investments, global financial markets, and international business in MSc, MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD programs at Duke University, London Business School, Stockholm School of Economics, UCLA, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Many of his PhD students have been placed at academic institutions, central banks, and asset management firms.

Dahlquist has been an advisor to several financial institutions as well as government authorities, including the National Debt Office, the Swedish Pensions Agency, and the Swedish Central Bank. He has previously reviewed the active management of the Government Pension Fund Global, the sovereign wealth fund of Norway. Recently, he was appointed to the new Expert Council that will provide advice and assessments to the Norwegian Ministry of Finance on the Fund. Recently, Dahlquist was also appointed to an expert group that will evaluate the Danish ATP’s investment strategy.

Other activities include serving as academic coordinator for Inquire Europe, serving on the investment committees of the Apoteket AB’s Pension Fund, the Church of Sweden, the Nobel Foundation, and the Swedish Society for Medical Research, and being a board member of the mutual fund company Quartile Fonder AB (“Kvartil”) and the foundation “Trygg-Stiftelsen” (related to the pension fund “Gamla Livförsäkrings-aktiebolaget SEB Trygg Liv”).