McCombs TODAY

Ten McCombs School faculty were honored by their peers at the McCombs Teaching and Research Awards ceremony May 4. Congratulations to these terrific faculty members on a job well done:
RESEARCH AWARDS
CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors
Alok Kumar, assistant professor, finance
For research excellence by an assistant professor in the McCombs School. Limited to tenure-track, full-time Assistant [...]

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Wall Street Journal, Feb. 21, 2009
The research of Alok Kumar, assistant professor of finance, was featured in a Wall Street Journal story about the tendency of investors to try to recoup losses quickly. The research will be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Finance, and a longer discussion of Kumar’s work can be [...]

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Theories on how to play the stock market abound. Buy low, buy companies whose leadership you admire, invest in organizations that reflect your personal values. And don’t count out the ever-popular strategy of throwing darts at the newspaper’s financial pages.
Every investor hopes he or she has figured out how to beat the system and turn [...]

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There’s no place like home, but staying too close to home can have unintended consequences for investors. Americans tend to put a disproportionate share of their money into shares of companies based in their own states, new research has shown, and that bias that can be exploited by [...]

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