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Active share ‘must be combined with turnover’
Finance Prof. Martijn Cremers studies the performance of fund managers and their ability to "beat" the index over time. In this Financial Times article, he explains the findings of his recent research.
Taha Lokhandwala, FT Adviser -
Does The Placebo Effect Influence Consumer Product Purchases?
Novices play better golf when they have expensive brand name equipment, according to research by marketing professor Frank Germann.
Shankar Vedantam, NPR -
What’s driving the decade of outflows from actively managed mutual funds
Finance professor Martijn Cremers defines funds with at least 40% of the portfolio overlapping the benchmark as low on the active-management side.
Jeff Benjamin, Investment News -
Why free trade is critical … and so are global trade partnerships
With a glance back over the 20th century, it’s readily apparent that several policy decisions had extraordinary global impacts. There were negative ones (the Poland Blitzkreig and the start of World War II by Germany) and positive ones (the post-WWII creation of a new international economic order resulting in cuts in tariffs globally). The human costs of WWII are well known: 15 million…
Jeffrey Bergstrand -
Do successful leaders produce more successful leaders?
Assistant management professor Craig Crossland studied the NFL to determine if the so-called “acolyte effect” that makes protégés of successful head coaches successful in turn is real.
William G. Gilroy -
Why CEOs Matter Even More Than They Used To
A recent study, coauthored by management professor Craig Crossland, shows an increasing stock market response when a CEO dies unexpectedly.
Will Yakowitz, Inc. -
New anti-inversion rules should reduce but not eliminate incentives to invert
“If policymakers are serious about stopping inversion, the preferable long-term solution would be to end U.S. taxation of foreign earnings or lower the U.S. corporate income tax rate,” says, Jim Seida, accounting associate professor.
Carol Elliott -
Report finds racial bias in the bond market against historically black colleges and universities
NPR Marketplace highlights research by finance Associate Professor Pengjie Gao.
Amy Scott, NPR -
The Cost of Being an HBCU
Historically black colleges must pay more to issue bonds than institutions of comparable financial strength, according to study coauthored by finance professor Pengjie Gao.
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed -
It’s Time for Investors to Re-Learn the Lost Art of Reading
A young investment manager is on a quest to read the annual letters of 3,000 companies — a rare feat for most investors, according to Mendoza finance professor Timothy Loughran.
Jason Zweig, Wall Street Journal