Finance Faculty Media Mentions

Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer discusses how floating rate debt should be added to a portfolio to add value during interest rate up cycles, in an article titled, "How Fixed-Rate Bonds Could Be Hurting Your Returns."

Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer discusses how AI‑driven agents could distort or obscure traditional economic signals, making it harder for the Federal Reserve to detect looming downturns, in an article titled, "BankThink To monitor an AI-driven economy, the Fed is going to need new tools."

Steve Pilloff, instructional professor of finance, shares advice for households grappling with the affordability crisis in a Moneywise article titled, "Many US households feel like they can’t get ahead financially. Here’s why the math behind wages, rising costs and long-term savings keep falling short."

Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer explores the validity and rationality of a potential AI-driven stock market bubble, in an article titled, "Magnificent 7 Companies Buoyed by Circular Investing Phenomenon."

Research shows these funds can help in a downturn, but alternatives might be cheaper.

The David Ellison-run company is promising Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders a deal it says is more lucrative and easier for the Trump administration to approve.

Stock-and-bond portfolios suffer when inflation spikes, but a commodities stake would cut risk and boost returns, research finds.

Derek Horstmeyer, finance professor at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, writes for The Wall Street Journal exploring whether and how to do a Roth conversion, in an article titled, "The Best Way to Do a Roth IRA Conversion Before Retirement."

TIPS perform best if you get in when inflation is low, research finds.

Derek Horstmeyer, finance professor at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, writes for The Wall Street Journal looking at which cryptocurrency ETFs best match the performance of the underlying coins-bond funds, in an article titled, "The Best Way to Invest in Bitcoin Without Actually Buying Cryptocurrency."