Date: July 16, 2025
Time: 9:00am Central European Summer Time; 15:00 China Standard Time
Format: Online Webinar | Simultaneous English-Chinese Translation
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) and SDA Bocconi School of Management (SDA Bocconi) will launch the latest MM Art Indices, a groundbreaking initiative offering institutional-grade tools to track the performance of the global art market.
Developed by CKGSB Professor Mei Jianping in collaboration with SDA Bocconi Professors Andrea Rurale and Brunella Bruno, the MM Art Indices provide comprehensive, data-driven insights into art market trends across Asia-Africa-Oceania, Europe, and the Americas. These indices—based on data from Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips from 1970 to 2025—bring unprecedented transparency and analytical rigor to art investment, a sector increasingly attracting attention from collectors, investors, and policymakers alike.
At this special event, the researchers behind the project will present key findings from the newly released MM Tri-Continental Art Price Index and the MM Chinese Art Indices for Spring 2025. Topics will include regional returns, market volatility, and shifting collector preferences, with a spotlight on the liquidity of top Chinese artists. The webinar will also introduce the upcoming Art Market and Finance Observatory, hosted by SDA Bocconi in Milan, which will serve as a hub for future research and innovation at the intersection of fine art and finance.
Whether you are an art collector, investor, academic, or cultural institution, this webinar will offer timely perspectives on how data is reshaping the global art market. A live Q&A session will follow the presentations.
Join us as we unveil the tools that could redefine art valuation and investment strategy for years to come!
Andrea Rurale is a Lecturer at the Department of Marketing at Università Bocconi.
At SDA Bocconi, he is the Director of the Master in Arts Management and Administration (MAMA). He has conducted research and education projects with major enterprises.
His research activities focus on cultural marketing, consumer behaviour, experiential marketing, CRM and marketing communication.
He is the author of books and articles on his topics of interest. His works have been published in Psychology and Marketing. He has been a Visiting Professor in many international universities, such as Simon Fraser in Vancouver (Canada), Tinsgua University in Beijing (China), SMU in Dallas (USA), UTS in Sydney (Australia) and Universidad de Aguascalientes (Mexico). He is the Regional President of FAI Lombardia (Fondo Ambiente Italiano) and President of the Istituto musicale superiore Monteverdi Conservatory in Cremona.
Andrea earned a degree from Università Bocconi and a PhD in Marketing from Universitat de València.
I am a researcher with tenure in Financial Markets and Institutions at Bocconi University Finance Department. I received the national scientific habilitation (ASN) award as full professor in Financial Markets, Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance (Sector 13/B4) in 2020. I am a member of the steering committee at Blest, the Bocconi Lab for European Studies, a research fellow of the Bocconi Baffi centre, and a fellow of IEP, the Bocconi Institute for European policymaking. I am also a member of the Expert Panel on banking supervision for the European Parliament since 2017.
I was an academic visitor at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and visiting professor at the Bangor Business School at Bangor University, UK.
I hold a PhD degree in Financial Markets and Institutions from Università degli Studi di Siena.
Phone: +86 10 8518 8858 ext. 3322
E-mail: jpmei@ckgsb.edu.cn
Professor of Finance, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)
PhD, Princeton University
Areas of Expertise: Art Investing, Asset Pricing, Culture and the Arts, International Finance, Market Manipulation, Real Estate Finance, Wealth Management
Biography
Professor Mei Jianping is a Professor of Finance at CKGSB. His major areas of research include international asset pricing and real asset finance.
Mei earned a PhD in Economics from Princeton University and BS in Mathematics from Fudan University. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Princeton University, New York University, Tsinghua University, University of Amsterdam, Bocconi University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
He has published over 30 articles in the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and other academic journals. He has received several “Best Research Paper” awards from various academic organizations. His research has been covered extensively by major news media in China, the US, UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.
Mei has served as a consultant and financial advisor to some of the largest financial institutions in the world, including Prudential Insurance of America, Fidelity Investment, UBS Warburg, Asia Development Bank, NCH capital, Koo’s Group, and W.P. Carey. He provides international asset allocation and real estate investment research to top decision makers and their clients. He has advised several major Chinese asset management companies as well as the Yunan Investment Trust Company.
Mei has acted as faculty director for New York University’s numerous international residency programs. He served as an organizer for several investment conferences, including a post as chairman of the Greater China real estate investment session for the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. He is also a faculty sponsor of US-China exchange program at the Stern Business School at New York University. The program has trained over 100 senior Chinese government officials and investment professionals.
Mei was a principal developer of the Mei Moses Fine Art Price Indices, which have been covered in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron’s, Los Angeles Times, Business Week, Time, Forbes and other world news media. The indices have been emplyed by several major US and overseas banks in private banking transactions.
