J.P. Morgan Research Chair Joyce Chang: Paradigm Shifts in Market Research & Women Leadership

Joyce Chang is Chair of Global Research for J.P. Morgan, whose research capacities expand across equities, currency and commodities, fixed income, emerging markets, derivatives and structured finance. Ms. Chang’s team has been named the top global research firm for 2017 and 2018 by Institutional Investor. In this episode, Ms. Chang tells us how the utilization of alternative data has revolutionized financial market research, as well as J.P. Morgan’s cooperation with social organizations in using big data to promote public good. What does the “Volfefe” index tell us about the relationship between Treasury bonds volatility and President Trump’s tweets? With technological change through big data and artificial intelligence, how does the role of an analyst evolve? How has the J.P. Morgan Institute contributed to a socially responsible investment environment?… Ms. Chang also shares her unique experience as an Asian female working on Wall Street. Her insights into how she thrives in a traditionally male-dominated industry sheds light on how aspiring young professionals could break the “bamboo ceiling” despite of all the challenges. Ms. Chang began her career as an Emerging Markets Strategist and held top rankings in Institutional Investor surveys for Emerging Markets research from 1997 through 2012, earning 25 #1 individual rankings. In 2014, she was inducted into the Fixed Income Analyst Society Hall of Fame. Ms. Chang was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch and Salomon Brothers before joining J.P. Morgan Chase in 1999. She is the Senior Sponsor for J.P. Morgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank’s Women on the Move Network, the network for employees of Asian heritage (AsPIRE), and Nonprofit Board Service. She holds a BA from Columbia and an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.