Christian Lundblad is a finance expert focusing on asset pricing, investment management, and international finance. His work addresses issues that are central to ERISA excessive fee, securities, valuation, and other investment-related matters.
As an expert witness, Professor Lundblad has provided testimony in matters involving investment performance evaluation, private equity (PE) and hedge funds, risk benchmarking, and ERISA cases alleging excessive fees and inappropriate investments.
Professor Lundblad has consulted on defined contribution plans, mutual fund analysis, project valuation and capital investment decisions, and emerging market risk benchmarking for Fortune 500 companies and branches of the armed services. As a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Private Capital, Professor Lundblad collaborates with investment managers and institutional investors on various topics related to private equity and hedge funds, including asset allocation, valuation, and risk benchmarking.
Influential research on investments, private equity, hedge funds, and valuation
In his research, Professor Lundblad addresses issues in empirical asset pricing, investment management, international finance, and the effect of the risk-return trade-off on capital markets. His recent work centers on hedge funds and hedge fund performance benchmarking.
Professor Lundblad has also analyzed issues involving fixed income markets, including term structure dynamics, asset fire sales, and market liberalization—research that intersects with corporate and municipal bond pricing. In addition, he has analyzed issues related to discount rates in cross-border valuation.
Academic and institutional leadership and honors
Professor Lundblad has written numerous articles in leading academic publications, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics. Professor Lundblad’s research has also received coverage in the national press, notably Bloomberg, Forbes, and Institutional Investor. He serves as associate editor at the Journal of Banking and Finance.
Professor Lundblad teaches courses on investments, global financial markets and management, and macroeconomics. He has received multiple honors for outstanding teaching, including the MBA for Executives award and the OneMBA Teaching Excellence award, as well as other recognitions for his research.
He is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the Kenan-Flagler Business School and a Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. In addition, he holds a courtesy appointment as a special-term professor at the People’s Bank of China School of Finance at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Earlier in his career, Professor Lundblad served as financial economist to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC.