Center for Financial Policy News

December 16, 2020
CFP Event Explores Diversity and the Bottom Line

When it comes to diversity, the investment industry has a ways to go.

That fact, while well known, was further illuminated this month in a survey from the Diverse Asset Managers Initiative (DAMI) and discussed in “Diversity and the Bottom Line,” a webcast hosted by the Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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November 12, 2020
How Maryland Smith Is Helping the FDA Think About Drug Manufacturing and Risk

Pandemic-era disruptions underscored a troubling reality in the pharmaceutical industry – an outsized reliance on foreign manufacturers for the raw ingredients for drugs sold in the United States.

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October 13, 2020
Fed’s Quarles Discusses Global Financial Stability and Data Gaps

When business scholars examine what transpired in the markets in 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the things they’ll study is financial markets stability and the influence of data gaps.

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October 5, 2020
Investors and ESG

In ‘The Second Objective Function,’ CFP launches a free webinar series that explores the environmental, social and corporate governance questions that are most pressing for organizations and investors today.

Can a firm’s level of CO2 emissions predict the level of returns for its shareholders?

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August 13, 2020
First-of-its-kind Collateral Risk Education Series Launches Sept. 14

Series Focused on Mortgage Industry to be delivered by Maryland Smith, Collateral Risk Network

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July 24, 2020
Bust or Boom? Webcast To Explore the Question

Is the stock market in bubble territory, ready to burst? Or are these boom times?

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June 16, 2020
The ‘Narrative Economics’ Playing Out Now
Center for Financial Policy Hosts Nobel Laureate in Global Webinar

“Stories abound in life,” Maryland Smith’s Russell Wermers said, opening a webinar discussion Tuesday. The topic: Narrative economics, with Nobel laureate Robert Shiller.

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October 18, 2019
Maryland Smith’s Russ Wermers Named to SEC Advisory Committee

Maryland Smith finance professor Russ Wermers was selected by the Securities and Exchange Commission to serve on its new Asset Management Advisory Committee, formed to offer advice and recommendations to the SEC on how regulations and industry trends impact investors.   

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January 25, 2019
Longbrake Pledges $1 Million to Maryland Smith

Educator, philanthropist and retired bank executive William Longbrake, DBA ’76, has pledged $1 million to support the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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October 15, 2018
Smith Professor Makes Impact in Africa

An organization led by University of Maryland finance professor Lemma W. Senbet helped senior policymakers bring rigor and evidence to economic policymaking in Africa.

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