Finance

From Financial Times, June 23, 2013:The 2013 FT Masters in Finance ranking of the top 40 full-time pre-experience programmes has a very western feel: it includes one business school from Australia, one from China, five from the US and…

This year’s Burkenroad Reports Investment Conference attracted a record crowd of 750 people, but event organizer Peter Ricchiuti says he didn’t need to see an attendance roster to realize they’d broken a record. This year’s Burkenroad…

Student teams from seven top schools vied for $15,000 in prizes on Friday (April 12) at the 17th annual Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Finance Case Competition. The contest, an annual presentation of the A. B. Freeman School of Business…

Robert Prilmeier’s paper “This Time Is the Same: Using Bank Performance in 1998 to Explain Bank Performance during the Recent Financial Crisis” was published in the December 2012 issue of the Journal of Finance. The…

The Business School Council, the primary external advisory board of the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, has recently added three new members. Ozgur KaraosmanogluOzgur Karaosmanoglu (A&S ’84, MBA ’87) is…

On May 6, 2010, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged nearly 600 points in five frantic minutes only to regain most of that loss minutes later. The origin of the so-called Flash Crash remains a mystery to this day, but David Lesmond…

From Bloomberg.com, Nov. 27, 2012:In New Orleans, an oil-friendly town where Moffett once headed a local business council and gives generously to the Boy Scouts, he is considered something of a folk hero -- and Davy Jones really is a…

Robert S. Hansen’s paper “Are Analysts’ forecasts Informative to the General Public?” has been accepted for publication in Management Science. Hansen, Francis Martin Chair in Business and professor of finance at Tulane…

“The world is flat,” proclaimed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in the title of his 2005 best-seller on how technology is leveling the global playing field, but that newly level playing field brings with it a new set…

Bloomberg is the world’s leading provider of news, data and analytics for finance professionals. Now, thanks to a new agreement, the Freeman School is making the company’s flagship desktop product — the Bloomberg Professional service…

This year’s Burkenroad Reports Investment Conference attracted a record attendance, and according to conference organizer Peter Ricchiuti, that’s a good sign for the economy. Peter Ricchiuti, right, says the best-performing Burkenroad…

Student teams from Tulane University and six other schools put their valuation and financial analysis skills to the test at the 16th annual Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Finance Case Competition. The competition, an annual presentation…

From NPR's Morning Edition, April 17, 2012: NPR’s John Ydstie spoke with Peter Ricchiuti, professor of practice and research director of Burkenroad Reports, about the the boom in natural gas production. Peter Ricchiuti, a professor at…

Big banks have gotten a lot of criticism in recent years—some of it deserved, says Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, the nation’s biggest bank. But in an appearance at Tulane University on Monday, Dimon said he draws the…

More than 50 deans, administrators and scholars from business schools across Latin America converged on the Freeman School in March for the 13th meeting of the Latin American Research Consortium (LARC). This year’s meeting of the…

The Freeman School has signed an agreement with China’s Zhejiang University to begin admitting students from its School of Management to the Freeman School’s Master of Accounting and Master of Finance programs. Freeman School Dean Ira…

The mutual fund based in part on the Freeman School’s Burkenroad Reports investment research program recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a pair of prestigious honors. Peter Ricchiuti says the performance of the Hancock…

A team of Freeman School students traveled to New York in December and came away with third-place honors at the 2011 University Trading Challenge. Freeman students Trevor Plath, Mario Cano, Savanna Speciale and Edward Hall, left to…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 21, 2011Contact: Ben Haimowitz212-233-6170HHaimowitz@aol.comNew Orleans – When it was reported recently…

Timothy G. Massad, assistant secretary for financial stability with the Department of the Treasury, will discuss lessons of the 2008 financial crisis as this year’s first Freeman Distinguished Speaker in Finance. Timothy G.…

Dean Ira Solomon is pleased to announce the following promotions and appointments to the faculty at the A. B. Freeman School of Business for the 2011-12 academic year. Sheri Tice, professor of finance, has been named the A. B. Freeman…

In its new ranking of global master’s in finance programs, Financial Times has ranked the Freeman School’s Master of Finance program 26th in the world and fourth among programs in the U.S. Freeman was ranked in the category of…

The following faculty awards were presented at the Freeman School’s 2011 graduate and undergraduate diploma ceremonies. Irving H. Lavalle Research Award Established in 1996, this award recognizes professors for…

From wsj.com, May 2, 2011: With so much hand-wringing going on, MarketBeat dropped a line to Peter Ricchiuti, a professor at Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business who has been tracking and trading small-cap companies for…

It might not be obvious from the standing-room-only crowds, but investment professionals still regard the Burkenroad Reports Investment Conference, which took place on April 15 at the downtown Sheraton, as one of the industry’s best-…