Finance Faculty Media Mentions

"Elon's not doing himself a favor by the constant tweeting," Derek Horstmeyer, professor of fiance, says on the ongoing battle between Twitter and Elon Musk in an interview with Business Insider. 

Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, along with finance students Junchen Xia and Maciej Kowlaski wrote an article for the CFA Institute on how well does crypto really hedge risk on the downside.

Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, was interviewed by Capital.com about which stocks to own during a recession. 

Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, and students Darian Whitfield and Athena Salomons, wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal on how Barbell strategies seem to only add value in rising rate environments and actually lose money in decreasing rate environments.

Have you ever wondered how to build wealth through real estate? “On average, homeowners have about 40 times more household wealth than renters," says Eric Maribojoc, executive director of our Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship, in an interview with Go Banking Rates.

Derek Horstmeyer was interviewed by Zacks.com on which stocks & ETFs do best when inflation spikes. 

"Inflation affects our stock market for a multitude of reasons. First, as the cost of input goods for companies go up, this compresses margins and leads to lower profits for companies where they cannot pass along these costs to the customers," says Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. 

Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, says that regarding the stock market you might want to sell off 30 percent before the recession starts in an interview with Go Banking Rates. “Given we are already down 20% to 25%, I would expect not too much more of a sell-off if we are indeed going into a recession.”

Finance students Yiming Xie and Zihan Chen, along with Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal on which industries do best over inflationary spikes, surprisingly it is not real estate, and in fact energy/materials that outperform by a long shot.

Katherine Vargas Medina, a senior finance and management information systems student, and Lincoln Berkson, a 2022 graduate of finance and management information systems, along with Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, wrote an article for the CFA Institute on an in-depth analysis of the Sharpe Ratio.