Finance Faculty Media Mentions

Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer talked to U.S. News & World Report about investing in consumer staple companies.

"Small-cap stocks and value stocks are two equity classes that have outperformed other equity classes over the long run," says Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance at George Mason University School of Business, in an interview with U.S. News & World Report.

In an op-ed for The Nation, Brad Swanson, adjunct finance professor, writes, "claims that poverty in America has been eliminated, and that “idleness” is the only barrier to a life of middle-class comfort, would be funny—if they weren’t so dangerous."

In a column for the Wall Street Journal, Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer looks at which commodities actually preserve wealth during adverse economic conditions.

Professor of Finance Derek Horstmeyer, was interviewed by ABC News about the recently raised interested rates by The Federal Reserve.

The more-wordy your fund name, the worse it does, writes Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer in an article for the Wall Street Journal. But the reason isn’t clear.

Adjunct Finance Professor Brad Swanson argues that if the right really understood ESG, they would celebrate it, not denounce it in an op-ed for The Nation.

Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer, Jason Howell, Patrick McManus, and Luis Paz-Perez explain their process for creating a U.S. GDP-weighted index in this piece for CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor blog.

Actively managed mutual funds lag behind passive mutual funds. Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer put actively managed ETFs through a similar test in this column for the Wall Street Journal.

How much does consumer sentiment actually matter to market performance? Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer and recent School of Business graduates Yuge Pang and Kexin Xu explored the correlations between consumer and business sentiment metrics and market returns in an article for CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor Blog.