Date: July 16, 2025
Time: 09:00-10:30 Milan Time; 15:00-16:30 Beijing 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 MM Art Indices, a groundbreaking initiative offering institutional-grade tools to track the performance of the global art market.
Developed by CKGSB’s Professor Mei Jianping in collaboration with SDA Bocconi’s 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 initiative will present key findings from the Indices’ newly released MM Continental Art Price Index, as well as surprising results for Spring 2025 of the MM Chinese Art Indices, which have been released since 2023. Topics will include regional returns, market volatility, and shifting collector preferences. The webinar will also introduce the establishment of the 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!
*In Milan Time
Brunella Bruno is an Assistant Professor in the Finance Area at SDA Bocconi and a tenured researcher in Financial Markets and Institutions at the Finance Department of Bocconi University.
She holds the national scientific habilitation (ASN) as a full professor in Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Corporate Finance (Sector 13/B4). She is a research fellow at the Bocconi Baffi Centre, a fellow at the Institute for European Policymaking (IEP), and a member of the Expert Panel on Banking Supervision for the European Parliament.
Brunella has been an academic visitor at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and a visiting professor at the Bangor Business School, Bangor University, UK. She holds a PhD in Financial Markets and Institutions from the Università degli Studi di Siena.
Her main research interests include empirical banking, banking regulation and supervision, credit risk management, climate risk in banking, and art as an investment.
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, and HSBC Asset Management. He provides international asset allocation and real estate investment research to top decision makers and their clients.
Mei was a principal developer of the Sotheby’s Mei Moses Fine Art Price Indices, which was 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.
Andrea Rurale is Director of the Intensive Program in Art Markets and Finance and Director Master in Arts Management and Administration (MAMA), both at SDA Bocconi. He is a tenured lecturer in the Department of Marketing at Università Bocconi.
He has conducted research and education projects with major enterprises mainly in the art and luxury fields.
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 Regional President of FAI Lombardia (Fondo Ambiente Italiano).
Andrea earned a degree from Università Bocconi and a PhD in Marketing from Universitat de València.
