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John A. Haslem, Professor
Emeritus of Finance, served as
the founding academic affairs
dean and founding chair of the
finance department. He received
the Panhellenic Association’s
“Outstanding Teacher Award” for
his mutual funds course, the
first in the curriculum of a
school of business.
Haslem studied at Duke
University, Harvard University,
and University of North
Carolina, and he also taught at
the University of North Carolina
and on the faculty of the
University of Wisconsin.
Research has appeared in the
Journal of Finance, Journal
of Business, Journal of
Financial and Quantitative
Analysis, Journal of Money,
Credit and Banking, Journal of
Business Research, Journal of
Accountancy, Financial Analysts
Journal, and
Transportation Research
(Part A), among others.
Haslem served as personal
financial consultant to the
Director of Supersonic Transport
of the U.S. Department of
Transportation, consultant and
expert witness to two divisions
of the U.S. Department of
Justice (including the Supreme
Court case, U.S. v. State of
Louisiana), and financial
consultant to the Goddard Space
Flight Center of the National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
In 2003, Haslem authored his
fifth book,
Mutual Funds: Risk and
Performance Analysis for
Decision Making (Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing). Chaired
Professor Charles P. Jones of
North Carolina State University
calls the book “definitive,” and
Vanguard founder John C. Bogle
considers it
“a marvelous compendium.”
Haslem's mutual funds research focuses
on financial, regulatory, and
policy issues. These topics
include normative transparency
of disclosure and the
relationship of expense
dispersion to the performance
and characteristics of retail
and institutional actively
managed and index equity funds.
This research appears in 30
articles in the Journal of
Investing, Institutional
Investor investment guides,
Journal of Indexes, and
Financial Services Review.
Haslem has been named to edit
the mutual funds book in The
Blackwell Companions in Finance
series of 65 volumes. He serves
on the Academic Advisory Board
of the Index Business
Association, and on the Board of
Judges of The William F. Sharpe
Indexing Achievement Awards
presented at the annual Super
Bowl of Indexing. He has also
served as a panelist at the
Super Bowl conference.
Haslem contributes a monthly
column, "The 30 Seconds
Outlook," to the Smith School
website.
Additional
web pages:
►Haslem
to Pen Regular Column in Journal of Indexes
►Articles:
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"Another
Look at S&P 500 Retail Index
Funds"
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"Another
Idea Whose Time Has Come"
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"S&P
500 Index Mutual Funds, Diverse
Expenses and Performance
Characteristics"
- "Indecent
Disclosure: The Need for
Normative Transparency of Mutual
Fund Disclosure"
►Haslem
on Smith Expert Directory
►Listing
in Smith faculty books
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