Finance Faculty Media Mentions

It may pay to bet on small-cap and growth stocks—and to do it early, according to Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer in a column for the Wall Street Journal.

RetailWire cited recent research from Lei Gao, associate professor of finance at George Mason University's School of Business, found that companies with a larger-than-average age difference between the CEO and other C-suite executives are more innovative on the whole.

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.