Full CV

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

Practice Associate Professor (Feb 2002 – Present)

Director of MSc in Applied Finance Program (2003 – Present)

Co-Director, Centre for Silver Security, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics (2008 – Present)

Previous Appointments:
National University of Singapore:
Vice Dean, School of Business (1999-2000)
Associate Professor of Finance & Accounting (1997-2002)
Assistant Professor of Finance & Accounting (1992-1997)

Other Positions

Director, VSQuest.com (2000-2002)

Board Member, NUS ASPF Pension Fund (1996 – 2002)

Manager, Corporate Banking, Chase Manhattan Bank N.A.,(1984-1985)

Credit Analyst, Chase Manhattan Bank N.A., (1983-1984)

Editorial Activities

Editorial Board Member, PULSES (2000 – 2005)

Associate Editor, Asia Pacific Journal of Finance (1998 – 2001)

Associate Editor, Asia Pacific Journal of Management (1996 – 1997)

Honors & Awards

2004 Best Paper Award by JAFEE for paper entitled “The Political Economy of Volatility Dynamics in the Hong Kong Stock Market”

Dean's Commendation for Teaching Excellence (SMU – for academic year 2006-2007)

Dean's Commendation for Teaching Excellence (NUS Business School ) (1999–2000)

National University of Singapore Overseas Scholarship (1987 – 1991)

Courses Taught in SMU

Finance

Corporate Finance

Financial Instruments, Institutions & Markets

Equity Analysis

Personal Finance

Selected Consulting Activities

Training consultant to the ABN-AMRO Bank, Citibank, Capitaland, DBS Bank, GE, GIC, Hong Leong Group, ING, J&J, Keppel Land , KK Hospital, NCC, NHG, Prudential, RBA, SIA, UBS.

Research Areas

Currency and asset market crashes

Mutual Fund Performance

Regime Switching in Financial Markets

Value Creation in Companies

Pension Schemes

Current Projects

Life Annuitization (with Olivia Mitchell of Wharton School)

Mean-variance Efficiency of CPFIS unit trusts (with Olivia Mitchell of Wharton School )

Selected Book, Journal & Other Publications

Koh, B., O. Mitchell and J. Fong (2008), “Cost Structures in Defined Contribution Systems: The Case of Singapore's Central Provident Fund”, Pensions: An International Journal , Vol 13, Issue 1-2, p7-14.

Koh, B., O. Mitchell, T. Tanuwidjaja and J. Fong (2008), “ Investment patterns in Singapore 's Central Provident Fund System”, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance , Vol 7, Issue 1, p37-65.

Koh, S. K., W. M. Fong and F. Chan (2007), “A Cardan's Discriminant Approach to Predicting Currency Crashes”, Journal of International Money and Finance , Vol 26, Issue 1, p131-148.

Francis Koh, Winston Koh and Benedict Koh (2005), “Corporate Divestitures and Spinoffs in Singapore ”, Journal of Restructuring Finance , Vol 2, No 1, p 69-80.

Fong Wai Mun and Benedict Koh, “Managing your Money: Everything You Need to Know About Personal Finance”, McGraw-Hill, 2 nd Edition, 2004.

Benedict Koh and Fong Wai Mun, “Personal Financial Planning”, Prentice-Hall, 3 rd Edition, 2003.

Fong W. M. and S. K. Koh (2003), “The Political Economy of Volatility Dynamics in the Hong Kong Stock Market”, Asia-Pacific Financial Market , 9, p 259-282.

Fong, W. M., S. K. Koh, G. H. Lim and P. L. Chng (1999), “Crashes, Hot Money and Financial Liberalisation: Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis”, Global Outlook , 11, No. 2.

Fong, W. M. and S. K. Koh (1997), “Joint Variance Ratio Tests of the Martingale Hypothesis for Exchange Rates”, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics , 15, No. 1, p 51-59.