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Faculty Profile
Russ Wermers' main research
interests include studies of the
efficiency of securities
markets, as well as the role of
institutional investors in
setting stock prices. Most
notably, his past research has
developed new approaches to
measuring and attributing the
performance of mutual funds,
pension funds, and hedge funds,
as well as devising winning
strategies for investing in
these funds. His papers have
been published in The
American Economic Review, The
Journal of Financial and
Quantitative Analysis, The
Journal of Financial Economics,
and The Journal of
Finance. His article on
mutual fund performance was a
finalist for the Smith-Breeden
Award for the Best Paper in the
Journal of Finance
during 2006/2007. He received
his Ph.D. from the University of
California, Los Angeles, in
1995.
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