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SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Since the global financial crisis, “active” fund managers — stock pickers looking to beat the market — have lost ground to their “passive“ counterparts, as

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Berkshire Hathaway’s small but much-discussed bite of Apple suggests a vote of confidence for a tech giant that had been sliding in the stock market.

Founder-CEOs and CEOs related to the founder see the world differently than CEOs of non-family firms, and they pursue different strategies, according to new research from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

Leading academics, bankers and regulators gathered at the Robert H.

Smith student Philip Peker ’18 writes about the Joseph Wikler Memorial Finance Case Competition on April 22, 2016, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Experts from the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — The Treasury Department continues to tighten its rules to prevent corporate "inversions" — the move in which a U.S.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Clinical professor of finance David Kass at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Central bankers in Japan and the Europe Union are at their wits' end in trying to figure how to generate demand and stave off deflation. Both banks have dropped interest rates into negative territory, encouraging spending by making saving literally costly.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — In a recent ABA Banking