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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.
Isenberg School of Management Finance Conference
Isenberg School of Management Finance Conference
The keynote speaker at the inaugural conference on Friday, May 9, 2025, will be Bryan Kelly, the Frederick Frank ’54 and Mary C. Tanner Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management and Head of Machine Learning at AQR Capital Management. He is also a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Associate Director of Yale SOM’s International Center for Finance. Professor Kelly’s primary research fields are asset pricing, machine learning, and financial econometrics.
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.
The Isenberg Finance Department is committed to delivering high quality research and teaching financial markets, financial institutions, and finance decision-making.
Finance is a broad field that includes both theory and practice. Our prominent faculty members are renowned for their theoretical and empirical work in a broad range of areas. Our faculty members research a broad range of topics: asset pricing/investments, hedge funds, mutual funds, risk management, stock market anomalies, international investments, tax evasion, options, fixed income, derivatives, gender representation in business, financial econometrics, corporate finance and governance, fintech, cybersecurity, and machine learning applications in finance.
We encourage you to explore our internationally renowned faculty members’ work across all dimensions of our diverse society.
Finance is a broad field that includes both theory and practice. Our prominent faculty members are renowned for their theoretical and empirical work in a broad range of areas. Our faculty members research a broad range of topics: asset pricing/investments, hedge funds, mutual funds, risk management, stock market anomalies, international investments, tax evasion, options, fixed income, derivatives, gender representation in business, financial econometrics, corporate finance and governance, fintech, cybersecurity, and machine learning applications in finance.
We encourage you to explore our internationally renowned faculty members’ work across all dimensions of our diverse society.
Fousseni Chabi-Yo
Berthiaume Endowed Professor in Business Administration, Chair of Finance Department, PhD Co-coordinator, Professor
Ben S. Branch
Professor Emeritus
Fousseni Chabi-Yo
Berthiaume Endowed Professor in Business Administration, Chair of Finance Department, PhD Co-coordinator, Professor
Jeffrey Clark
Lecturer, David Gaunt Faculty Fellow in Real Estate; M.Fin. Academic Program Director
Robert Feingold
Lecturer
John J. Griffin
Lecturer
Lina Han
Assistant Professor
Simon Huang
Assistant Professor
Adam T. Jørring
Assistant Professor
Nikunj Kapadia, PhD
Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, Professor of Finance
Hossein B. Kazemi
Director, CISDM & Michael and Cheryl Philipp Endowed Professor
Nelson Lacey
Professor Emeritus
Bing Liang
Charles P. McQuaid Endowed Professor
Matthew Linn
Assistant Professor
Wenting Ma
Assistant Professor
Marco Macchiavelli
Assistant Professor and PhD Co-Coordinator
Anya Mkrtchyan
Judith Wilkinson O’Connell Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor
Sanjay Nawalkha
Professor
Thomas O'Brien
Dean Emeritus
Chancellor Javier A. Reyes
Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Professor of Finance
Mila Getmansky Sherman
Fuller and Meehan Endowed Professor, Associate Director of CISDM
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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Isenberg Student Teams Win Big at Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship’s 2025 Innovation Challenge
Isenberg Student Teams Win Big at Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship’s 2025 Innovation Challenge
On April 24, 2025, Isenberg’s Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship hosted the final round of its annual Innovation Challenge, featuring several
Isenberg Student Teams Win Big at Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship’s 2025 Innovation Challenge
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Isenberg Hosts Inaugural Finance Conference at UMass Amherst
Isenberg Hosts Inaugural Finance Conference at UMass Amherst
Hosted by the Department of Finance, the May 9 event brought together leading academics and professionals from an array of institutions to engage in
Isenberg Hosts Inaugural Finance Conference at UMass Amherst
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Senior Excellence Awards 2025
Senior Excellence Awards 2025
The seven academic departments within the Isenberg School of Management each chose graduating seniors from the Class of 2025 to receive academic
Senior Excellence Awards 2025
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Department of Finance
Room 226
Isenberg School of Management
121 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA 01003