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.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – They say that all models are wrong, but some are useful. And that’s true in the finance sector’s climate change scenario analysis, according to Maryland Smith’s Clifford Rossi.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – How will a Joe Biden presidency affect the American economy, and what will it mean for the U.S. role in global economies, including China’s?
Following Biden’s projected election victory, experts David Kass and Kislaya Prasad at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business offered insight from different perspectives.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau appears to have missed an opportunity to correct a nagging issue in its definition of a qualified mortgage, Maryland Smith's Clifford Rossi writes in HousingWire. And it goes to the heart of the borrower’s ability to repay.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Recent COVID-prompted Federal Reserve actions, fiscal policy responses, forbearances and foreclosures moratoriums have affected the reliability and stability of mortgage finance data models -- and the industry more broadly.
