SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Is it better to monitor your investments constantly or to ignore the market's twists and turns and leave your money to grow? Contrary to conventional advice, it might pay off to keep closer watch of your investments and to actively manage them, says Alberto Rossi, finance professor at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. 

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — What is it like when 86 percent of the banknotes in circulation in a country are rendered worthless overnight? That's what India has been finding out over the past three weeks. On the evening of Nov.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Some 66 years ago, MBA student Warren Buffett trekked from New York to Washington, D.C., seeking career wisdom.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Over your lifetime, you'll earn quite a bit of money.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Warren Buffett once referred to airlines as an investor's "death trap." So why would his Berkshire Hathaway be placing big bets on airline shares? The Oracle of Omaha's railroad strategy offers some clues, says finance professor David Kass at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Launched this fall, the University of Maryland Research Data Center (UMDRDC) is the newest facility of the national Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDC) network. A Grand Opening Ceremony will be held on Nov. 18, 2016, at the University of Maryland’s College Park campus.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – The question of who will be the 45th U.S. president has been answered with the upset victory of Republican Donald Trump. Now many are asking what U.S. economic policy will look like under his administration. Experts from the University of Maryland's Robert H.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Though polls show Hillary Clinton losing ground to Donald Trump, her advantage in the betting markets continues.

Speed dating took on a new meaning for undergraduates studying finance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business last week. For several hours on Oct. 26, 2016, more than 130 students mixed and mingled with almost 40 professional mentors from the field of finance at the annual Finance Fellows Networking Night. Several of the mentors were Smith alumni who returned to College Park representing firms such as Capital One, Northwestern Mutual, Deloitte, Harborside Group, and SECU, to name just a few.

Professors at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business placed No. 1 in the world for "faculty quality" in The Economist's 2016 full-time MBA rankings, marking the third consecutive year atop the category. Prior to the current run, the school finished No. 2 for faculty quality in 2013. Overall, the Smith School finished No. 47 globally and No. 32 in the United States in the latest rankings, released Oct. 13.