Finance
August 16, 2024
Russ Robins, the Jessica L. Streiffer and Edward L. Streiffer Chair in International Finance and professor of finance, retired on July 1, bringing to a close his 35-year career as a full-time professor and administrator.
August 09, 2024
Peter Ricchiuti, William B. Burkenroad Jr. Clinical Professor of Equity Research and senior professor of practice, was interviewed by Yahoo! Finance for a segment on student attitudes about the stock market and investing.
July 19, 2024
Assistant Professor of Finance Ryan Peters is the developer of Money, Fintech, and Blockchain: Transforming the Financial Landscape, a new Freeman School course that explores the innovative technologies transforming the financial world.
July 17, 2024
Dave Lesmond, Exxon Professor in Business and associate professor of finance, was featured in a WalletHub "Ask the Experts" Q&A on jumbo money market accounts.
June 25, 2024
Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice and research director of Burkenroad Reports, was interviewed by USA Today for a story about the wisdom of investing in companies following a stock split.
June 21, 2024
Melissa Lightell, assistant dean of graduate admissions, was interviewed by the education news website Best Colleges for a story about Freeman's new MBA curriculum.
May 24, 2024
A research paper co-authored Goen Choi, visiting assistant professor of finance, was highlighted in a MarketWatch article. The paper, "Long-Term Shareholder Returns: Evidence from 64,000 Global Stocks," studied long-run shareholder outcomes for more than 64,000 global common stocks from January 1990 to December 2020.
May 01, 2024
Students at two New Orleans area high schools are doing more than just learning financial literacy. With the help of students from the A. B. Freeman School of Business, they’re studying investment strategies and actively building their own portfolios.
April 26, 2024
For the 2024 R.W. Freeman Distinguished Lecture, Todd Schwartz (BSM '03), founder of fintech company OppFi, shared the firm's origin story and highlighted its unwavering commitment to assisting millions of Americans.
April 05, 2024
Amanda Heitz, assistant professor of finance, was interviewed for a segment on the WWNO news magazine "Louisiana Considered" about independent banks in New Orleans seeking to change their ownership structure from mutual banks to stock-owned institutions.
March 19, 2024
For the 2024 R.W. Freeman Distinguished Lecture, Todd Schwartz, founder of OppFi, will sit down with Myke Yest, senior professor of practice in finance, for a wide-ranging discussion that will chart the company's journey from a Chicago pawnshop to a $265 million public company.
February 07, 2024
Two members of the A. B. Freeman School of Business community were recently honored by Tulane University for exceptional achievements in advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.