Faculty Profile

John A. Haslem Professor Emeritus of Finance Ph.D. University of North Carolina 2025 Hillyer Place, N.W. Washington, D.C., 20009 Phone: 202-236-3172 Fax: 202-387-0679 E-mail: jhaslem@rhsmith.umd.edu  501 Forest Ave. Suite 104 Palo Alto, CA 94301

John A. Haslem, Professor Emeritus of Finance, served as the founding academic affairs dean and founding chair of the finance department. He received the Panhellenic Association's "Outstanding Teacher Award" for his mutual funds course, the first in the curriculum of a school of business

Haslem studied at Duke University, Harvard University, and the University of North Carolina, and he also taught at the University of North Carolina and on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin.

His research has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Accountancy, Financial Analysts Journal, and Transportation Research (Part A), among others.

Haslem served as personal financial consultant to the Director of Supersonic Transport of the U.S. Department of Transportation, consultant and expert witness to two divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice (including the Supreme Court case, U.S. v. State of Louisiana), and financial consultant to the Goddard Space Flight Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

His fifth book, Mutual Funds: Risk and Performance Analysis for Decision Making (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003) has been acclaimed. Chaired Professor Charles P. Jones of North Carolina State University calls the book "definitive, "and Vanguard founder John C. Bogle considers it "a marvelous compendium," among others.

The latest book (invited editor and author) is Mutual Funds: Portfolio Structures, Analysis, Management, and Stewardship (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010), which features leading authorities.

Haslem's mutual funds research focuses on financial, regulatory, and policy issues. These topics include normative transparency of disclosure, the new total expense ratio, and the relationship of expense dispersion to the performance and characteristics of retail and institutional actively managed and index equity funds. Fund research appears in over 50 journal articles and working papers, including Journal of Investing, Institutional Investor investment guides, Journal of Indexes, and Financial Services Review.

Haslem serves as founding editorial board member of the Global Business and Finance Review, Investment Management and Financial Innovation, and Journal of Index Investing. He also serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Index Business Association, and on the Board of Judges of The William F. Sharpe Indexing Achievement Awards presented at the annual Super Bowl of Indexing. He has also served as a Super Bowl conference participant.

Since 2007, Haslem has written bi-monthly columns, "The 30 Seconds Outlook," to the Smith School Web site. 

Additional web pages:

• Articles:
  • Opinion Articles
  • "Another Look at S&P 500 Retail Index Funds"
  • "Another Idea Whose Time Has Come"
  • "S&P 500 Index Mutual Funds, Diverse Expenses and Performance Characteristics"
  • "Indecent Disclosure: The Need for Normative Transparency of Mutual Fund Disclosure"
• Book: Mutual Funds: Risk and Performance Analysis for Decision Making
• Haslem on Smith Expert Directory
• Listing in Smith faculty books