Even a bank serving the poorest communities can make big profits while making a difference in peoples’ lives and doing good for society, confirms new research from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
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Friday, February 5, 2021
When the world needed a vaccine for COVID-19, corporations around the globe raced to develop one. Governments poured billions of dollars into drug companies to subsidize a speedy introduction of a safe and effective vaccine. And it worked. Less than 10 months later, people around the world started receiving the first shots.
Friday, December 11, 2020
Living through a climate-related disaster can be a harrowing experience for anyone. For professional money managers, it can even impact their investment decisions, according to recent research from the Center for Financial Policy (CFP) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Thursday, December 10, 2020
How do U.S. money market funds respond to a crisis? That’s what Maryland Smith finance professor Russell Wermers wondered in recently published research that explores what happened during the European debt crisis that spiraled when Greece required a bailout.
Thursday, December 10, 2020
New research from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business pioneers a way to sift through the thousands of active mutual funds to winnow them down to a set of the best ones to invest in.
Thursday, December 10, 2020
New research from Maryland Smith finance professor Russell Wermers rebuts a critique of another paper he and two co-authors published in 2010 that introduced a new way to evaluate mutual fund performance.
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Institutional investors own more than two-thirds of corporate equities, and they account for an even greater percentage of trading volume. Because they make up such a large share of the market, when these pension funds, mutual funds, insurance companies, hedge funds, endowment funds, and other behemoth investors buy and sell based on news, it moves market prices for everyone.