Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt

Professor and Chairperson - Finance Department Department: Finance On-board Status: Available

Work Experience

  • Professor and Chairperson - Finance Department at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Aug-2023 to PRESENT)
  • Professor, Program Director MBA & Executive MBA, Editor IBA Business Review and Research Fellow-CBER at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Jan-2023 to Jul-2023)
  • Professor, Editor IBA Business Review and Research Fellow-CBER at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Mar-2021 to Dec-2022)
  • Associate Professor, Editor IBA Business Review and Research Fellow-CBER at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Sep-2020 to Mar-2021)
  • Associate Professor and Research Fellow-CBER at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Oct-2019 to Sep-2020)
  • Assistant Professor and Research Fellow-CBER at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Jul-2015 to Oct-2019)
  • Assistant Professor at NUST Business School, Islamabad (Jul-2014 to Jun-2015)
  • Assistant Professor Assistant Professor, Hanken School of Economics, Department of Finance and Statistics, April 2013-July 2013 at Hanken School of Economics (Apr-2013 to Jul-2013)
  • Assistant General Manager at Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Jan-2003 to Jan-2005)
  • Junior Executive (HR) at Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (May-2001 to Dec-2002)

Education

  • PhD (Finance), Hanken School of Economics - 2013
  • MSc (Finance), Hanken School of Economics - 2006
  • MPA (Finance), Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad - 2000

Membership & Affiliations:

  • MEMBER, Editor of IBA Business Review.
  • REFEREE, Review of Managerial Science.
  • REFEREE, Finance Research Letters.
  • REFEREE, European Journal of Finance.

Research Interests

  • Finance

Courses Taught

  • ADVANCED PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
  • BUSINESS FINANCE I
  • EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROGRAM (ELP)
  • EMPIRICAL ASSET PRICING
  • FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
  • FINANCIAL MODELING
  • FIXED INCOME INVESTMENTS
  • FINANCIAL ANALYSIS SOFTWARES 1: EXCEL AND VBA
  • INVESTMENTS
  • MBA EXECUTIVE RESEARCH PROJECT
  • MBA PROJECT (PART-1)
  • MBA PROJECT (PART-2)
  • MS IBF PROJECT
  • MS ISLAMIC FINANCE THESIS
  • MS THESIS
  • MS THESIS
  • PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
  • SEMINAR IN FINANCE
  • SEMINAR IN FINANCE

Research Output

  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Kenneth Hogholm, Mohsin Sadaqat "Reversal Returns and Expected Returns from Liquidity Provision: Evidence from Emerging Markets", Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Mar 01, 2021, Netherlands
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, James W. Kolari, Mohsin Sadaqat "Revisiting Momentum Profits in Emerging Markets", Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Feb 01, 2021, Netherlands
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Nader Shehzad Virk "Momentum Crashes and Variations to Market Liquidity", International Journal of Finance and Economics, Aug 21, 2020, United States
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Mohsin Sadaqat "The Pricing of Firm-specific Risk in Emerging Markets", Journal of Investment Strategies, Dec 31, 2019
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Mohsin Sadaqat "Performance of Sharia Based Investment: Evidence from Pakistani Listed Firms", Business & Economic Review, Nov 04, 2019, Pakistan
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Dr. Mohsin Sadaqat "The Reversal Strategy: A Test Case for an Emerging Market", IBA Business Review, May 31, 2019, Pakistan
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Kenneth Hogholm "The impact of illiquidity risk for the Nordic markets", Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting-Revista EspaƱola de FinanciaciĆ³n y Contabilidad, Dec 27, 2018, Abingdon, England
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Mohsin Sadaqat "Investment Horizon Related Momentum in Volatility Scaled Momentum Strategies", Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference Multinational Finance Society, Jun 24, 2018, Macedonia, Greece
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Dr Nader Virk "Market Downturns, Zero Investment Strategies and Systematic Liquidity Risk", Finance Research Letters, May 23, 2018, United States
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Ihsan Ullah Badshah, Muhammad Tahir Suleman "Illusory Nature of Pricing of Illiquidity Effect: The Test Case of Australian Stock Market", Journal of Finance & Economics Research, Oct 29, 2017, KARACHI, Pakistan
  • Mohsin Sadaqat, Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt "Role of Liquidity in Explaining Anomalous Returns: Evidence from Emerging Market", Business and Economic Review, Sep 30, 2017, Peshawar, Pakistan
  • Falik Shear, Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt "Relationship between Stock and the Sovereign CDs Markets: A Panel VAR Based Analysis", South Asian Journal of Management Sciences, Aug 24, 2017, KARACHI, Pakistan
  • Mohsin Sadaqat, Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt "Does Volatility Scaling Improve the Performance of Momentum Strategies in Pakistan Stock Exchange?", IBA Business Review, Jun 30, 2017, KARACHI, Pakistan
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Nader Shahzad Virk "Time Variation in Liquidity, DMS and Asset Pricing Models", 24th Annual Conference, Multinational Finance Society, Jun 28, 2017, Bucharest, Romania
  • Mohsin Sadaqat, Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt "Modeling Sentiment, Temporal Volatility and Excess Returns: Empirical Evidence from Segmented Stock Market", Journal of Business & Economics, Dec 01, 2016, Pakistan
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Nader Shahzad Virk "Momentum Profits and Time Varying Illiquidity Effect", Finance Research Letters, Oct 21, 2016, United States
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Ihsan Badshah, Muhemmad Tahir "Illusory Nature of Pricing of Illiquidity Effect: The Test Case of Australian Stock Market", 23rd Annual Conference of the Multinational Finance Society, Jun 26, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Nader Shahzad Virk, Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt "Specification Errors of Asset-Pricing Models for a Market Characterized by Few Large Capitalization Firms", Journal of Economics and Finance, Jan 01, 2016, United States
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt, Nader Shahzad Virk "Liquidity and Asset Pricing: An Empirical Investigation of the Nordic Stock Markets", European Financial Management, Sep 17, 2015, United Kingdom
  • Dr. Hilal Anwar Butt "A Comparison among Various Dimensions of Illiquidity Effect: A Case Study of Finland", Research in International Business and Finance, Jan 20, 2015, Netherlands Antilles

Projects

  • Liquidity Pricing Across the Global Markets Principal Investigator (s): Dr. Hilal Anwer Butt RFPC Funded Project