bauer research in financial services

Close partnership with the industry, top-rated faculty, and innovative programs endow the Bauer College of Business with a special expertise in financial services.

	The focus of the Bauer College's activities is the AIM Center for Investment Management. The $5 million learning laboratory is the lens through which students gain insight into investment management, accounting, information technology and marketing.
	With a mission to enhance sales productivity, and with a close relationship with key financial services corporations such as Liberty Mutual, Northwest Mutual and State Farm, the Program for Excellence in Selling graduates students that are amply prepared for investment sales.

Bauer College Faculty: Financial Services

Jeremy Berkowitz
Associate Professor in Finance
Area: Financial Econometrics, Risk Management, Applied Time Series and Derivatives

Thomas George
Bauer Professor in Finance
Director, AIM Center for Investment Management
Faculty Coordinator, Financial Services Management Certificate
Area: Market Microstructure, Insider Trading, Analysis of the Impact of Asymmetric Information and Behavioral Biases on Asset Pricing

Charles Guez
NASDAQ Executive Professor in Finance
Area: Financial Services Management

Eli Jones
Associate Professor in Marketing & Entrepreneurship
Bauer Faculty Fellow
Associate Dean for Executive Education and Professor
Area: Financial Services Sales

William Kretlow
Associate Professor in Finance
Area: Corporate Finance and Investments, Valuation of Closely Held Corporations and Dividend Policy

Praveen Kumar
Texas Bank of Commerce/Tenneco Professor in Finance
Chair, Finance Department
Bauer Faculty Fellow
Area: Corporate Finance, Real Options, Investments, Industrial Organization, Contract Theory

Richard Pettit
Duncan Professor in Finance
Area: Asset Valuation, Investment Management, Portfolio & Risk Managment, Security Analysis

Ronald Singer
Professor in Finance
Manager, Cougar Investment Fund
Area: Corporate Finance, Bond Valuation

Randy Webb
Lecturer in Marketing & Entrepreneurship
Director, Executive Degree Programs
Area: Financial Services Sales

Scott Whisenant
Assistant Professor in Accountancy & Taxation
Area: Financial Services Accounting, specifically information content and value-relevance of financial disclosures to investors in the capital markets