Who We Are

Dr. Philipov completed his MS in Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and PhD in Finance at Boston College. His research focusing on asset pricing, risk management, and credit risk has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and other finance and economics journals.

Dr. Horstmeyer completed his MS in Financial Mathematics at Stanford University and PhD in Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on boards, ETF & mutual fund performance, and hedge fund activism. In addition to publications in the Quarterly Journal of Finance and Managerial Finance, Horstmeyer writes a monthly column for the Wall Street Journal, and his work has been cited in outlets such as Forbes, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune, and many others.