Finance Faculty Media Mentions

Kevin Mocknick, who is the student vice president of the Risk Committee for the Montano Student Investment Fund, and Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal on how the January effect has completely reversed in stock markets, but is still present in the bond market.

Professor Derek Horstmeyer and senior finance student Cade Irwin wrote an article for ETF Trends on how buffered ETFS can affect your portfolio.

Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, says that the downside of ETF funds are “that because they trade continuously throughout the day, this encourages investors to trade too frequently. This leads to excess fees, short term capital gains and losses due to trying to time the market.”

Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, along with finance student Ina Baranga, wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal on why you should hold funds managed by younger managers in tax sheltered accounts.

How have correlations changed with Chinese markets over the past 25 years? Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, along with finance students Juhee Hong and AnhMinh Luu answer this in an article for the CFA Institute.

“Often investors look at covered call strategies and wonder, is this the alpha generating strategy that I need to add to my portfolio?” Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, along with finance students Reina Tran and Tao Wei, discuss this in an article for ETF Database.

“The SPAC market is a little saturated, but I wouldn’t write it off,” says Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance. SPACs or special purpose acquisition companies, are here to stay according to Virginia Business.

Professor of Finance Derek Horstmeyer and current student Tyler Harb wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal on how investors can replicate their own target data funds to save over three percentage points over a 10 year period of returns.

Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer was interviewed by Forbes on growth stocks and how they “are exposed to more crash risk and volatility than value stocks.”

Professor of Finance Derek Horstmeyer and senior Finance students Hoai Nguyen and Abdallahi Ely Telmoudy have written an op-ed for Enterprising Investor on special-purpose acquisition companies.