Bob O’Shea is the quintessential Fordham student. A scrappy kid from New Jersey, his grandmother worked as a maid at the Waldorf Astoria in midtown Manhattan, his father was a New York City cop, and he himself was accepted to …

The chief endowment officers at foundations, family offices, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds are the leaders in the world of finance. They marshal trillions of dollars on behalf of their institutions and influence how capital flows throughout the world. …

Of all of the disruptive possible uses of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance (or DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (or NFT) might be the one most likely to bring this technology to a wide audience—and challenge the established finance industry in …

Has there ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln has gone silent? Our immortal conscience on civil rights and individual freedom is speaking to us yet again in the time of COVID-19 and public unrest. Yet Lincoln has managed to …

At its core, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising exquisite theories of optimal decision-making in situations of constraint, risk, and scarcity. Yet not all of our choices …

Join us for a discussion with Kevin R. Mirabile, author of Exotic Alternative Investments: Standalone Characteristics, Unique Risks and Portfolio Effects (Anthem Press, 2021). In the book, Mirabile evaluates exotic alternative investment opportunities, such as life settlements, litigation funding, farmlands, …

Imagine a small bucket of quarters. It may be worth $5. But what if, beneath that top layer of quarters, you found a rare diamond? All of a sudden, that bucket could be worth $50 million. You never know until …

By Stevenson Swanson Despite the dramatic changes in the business world over the last few decades, the basic system of accounting to measure a firm’s profitability and prospects has remained largely unchanged since double-entry bookkeeping was devised some 500 years …

The value-investing program at the Gabelli School of Business has become an important and innovative part of Fordham academics, and the two professors most associated with it have their eyes on even bigger successes in the future. Professor Sris Chatterjee …

Charles Brandes, well-known investor and founder of Brandes Investment Partners, has made some bad picks during his more than 40 years in finance, and he’s proud of them. Brandes told a group of Fordham University students who attended the businessman’s …