U.S. Mutal Fund Characteristics Across the Investment Spectrum

A research fellow at the University of St. Gallen's Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance in St. Gallen, Switzerland. He holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of Bielgeld, Gennany, and a master's degree in economics from the University of Georgia. His major research interests indude porifolio and risk management, asset pricing anomalies, and international finance.

A professor of economics and finance at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and serves as a managing director of its Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance. His main research interests are in empirical finance, porifolio and risk management, pension funds, and derivatives. He is the managing editor of Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, a quarterly publication of the Swiss Finance Association as well as an associate editor of the Journal of Derivatives.