[Asia Economy Reporter Minji Lee] FnGuide announced on the 19th that it will hold an academic symposium on treasury stock in collaboration with the Korean Securities Association at 3 PM on October 15th at the Federation of Korean Industries Building in Yeouido.


The symposium will review accounting treatments and legal issues related to the acquisition and disposal of treasury stock, and empirically analyze distortions in the capital market to explore directions for institutional improvement.


The first part of the symposium will feature presentations on treasury stock topics by Professor Woojin Kim of Seoul National University and Professor Youngsoo Choi of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. The presentations will cover legal issues related to treasury stock, empirical analysis of treasury stock disposal and cancellation, and the impact of including treasury stock on market capitalization, per-share indicators, stock indices, and factor models. An in-depth panel discussion involving experts from the financial investment industry, policy authorities, and academia is also planned.


In the second part, FnGuide will introduce a newly developed financial crisis index using artificial intelligence. This index, which can assess financial crises, will be presented by Dr. Seunghwan Jeong of FnGuide's Quantitative Research Division.



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