Curt Grimm, Dean’s Professor of Supply Chain and Strategy, received his PhD in economics from the University of California-Berkeley, with primary focus on industrial organization.

Research by Russ Wermers Knowing how the best mutual fund managers are choosing their portfolios can be valuable information for investors, if stocks picked by skilled fund managers really outperform those picked by unskilled managers. But it has been difficult to test this hypothesis, since it is not clear how to use fund holdings to pick stocks.

Living through a climate-related disaster can be a harrowing experience for anyone. For professional money managers, it can even impact their investment decisions.

New research refutes a critique of a way to evaluate mutual fund performance.

New research from Maryland Smith 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? New research explores what happened during the European debt crisis that spiraled when Greece required a bailout.

What stocks do the smartest fund managers love, and are they worth knowing? Investors Chronicle recently posed this question and revisited a Russell Wermers co-authored study for an answer.  

Do ETFs contribute to market volatility? New research may hold the answer.

With passively managed funds and ETFs surging in popularity in recent years, it might seem like active investment managers would soon be a relic of the past. Here's why they won't be sidelined.

It should have been a banner week for Samsung Electronics, but wasn’t. Instead, it was a master class in 'efficient markets.'