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Finance Department
Finance students don't just study money, they study how money interacts with risk and time. Understanding this relationship is critical to helping individuals, companies and governments make wise decisions about managing capital, investing or borrowing funds, optimizing returns, and staying financially sound.
Degree Options in Finance
Degree Options in Finance
At Isenberg, finance students learn how to raise debt and equity capital, evaluate profitability and riskiness of projects, value small businesses and large corporations, and make traditional and alternative investments in global financial markets. In all our programs, we are preparing students to practice finance in the 21st century.
Center for International Securities and Derivative Markets
Center for International Securities and Derivative Markets
Our high-profile Center for International Securities and Derivative Markets (CISDM) underscores our longstanding leadership in alternative investments education and research. Through CISDM, students gain access to the Morningstar CISDM Database, the oldest hedge fund and commodity trading advisor data base on the market. And they gain an “inside industry” edge into how those markets perform and evolve.
Our internationally prominent faculty members are renowned for research in investments, including hedge funds, mutual funds, risk management, stock market anomalies, international investments, tax evasion, options, fixed income derivatives, and financial econometrics.
Nikunj Kapadia
Department Chair & Professor
Farshid Abdi
Assistant Professor
Sandiip Bhammer
Adjunct Professor
Keith Black
Adjunct Faculty
Ben S. Branch
Professor Emeritus
Fousseni Chabi-Yo
Berthiaume Endowed Professor in Business Administration, PhD Coordinator, Honors Program Director
Jeffrey Clark
Lecturer, David Gaunt Faculty Fellow in Real Estate; M.Fin. Academic Program Director
Robert Feingold
Lecturer
Ginnie Gardiner
Clinical Associate Professor
Lina Han
Assistant Professor
Simon Huang
Assistant Professor
Nikunj Kapadia
Department Chair & Professor
Hossein B. Kazemi
Director, CISDM & Michael and Cheryl Philipp Endowed Professor
Bing Liang
Charles P. McQuaid Endowed Professor
Matthew Linn
Assistant Professor
Wenting Ma
Assistant Professor
Marco Macchiavelli
Assistant Professor of Finance
Anya Mkrtchyan
Associate Professor
Sanjay Nawalkha
Professor
Mila Getmansky Sherman
Professor & Judith Wilkinson O’Connell Faculty Fellow, Associate Director of CISDM
Sara Smiarowski
Lecturer
Seminars and Speakers
https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/finance-department/seminars
Professional Organizations
Professional Organizations
We encourage our students to get involved with industry now! There are many finance-related organizations that students can turn to for learning and networking.
Finance Department News
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Supporting Ukraine Through Academic Partnership
Supporting Ukraine Through Academic Partnership
When Russia illegally invaded Ukraine earlier this year, Isenberg School of Management Professor Anna Nagurney—the daughter of refugees who fled
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Student Spotlight: Alexis David ’24
Student Spotlight: Alexis David ’24
Alexis David ’24, who is from Westwood, Mass., is double-majoring in finance at Isenberg and fashion marketing and merchandising through BDIC.
Student Spotlight: Alexis David ’24
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Student Spotlight: Katherine Widrow '23
Student Spotlight: Katherine Widrow '23
Katherine Widrow ’23, who is pursuing a minor in business at Isenberg, is double majoring in Behavioral Economics (BDIC) and Psychology.
Student Spotlight: Katherine Widrow '23
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Department of Finance
Room 226
Isenberg School of Management
121 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA 01003
