Finance Faculty Media Mentions

Associate Professor of Finance Lei Gao was quoted in a Virginia Business article about top CEOs seeing flat pay growth in 2022.

The premise of isolating a particular investment trait to outperform the market may have seemed like a good idea, but the data say something else according to Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer and finance students John Walton and Ben Korhnak in an article for the Wall Street Journal.

Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer and Kevin Li, CFA, explored how major performance metrics correlate and whether their correlations changed over time in an article for CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor blog.

Associate Finance Professor Lei Gao's research on age diversity in the C-suite was covered in an article for BenifitsPro.com.

Brad Swanson, an adjunct professor of finance, and finance student Zihan Chen investigate whether better ESG ratings correlate with improved financial performance and better valuations in an article for CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor Blog.

For most fund categories, the answer is yes, according to new research from Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer, published in his Wall Street Journal column.

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.