John A. Haslem
PhD, Professor Emeritus of Finance, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA
John A. Haslem, Professor Emeritus of Finance, served as the founding academic affairs dean and founding chair of the finance department. His mutual funds analysis course was the first in the finance curriculum of a collegiate school of business. He also taught at the University of North Carolina and on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin.
Haslem's research 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, Transportation Research, among others.
Haslem served as personal financial consultant to the Director of Supersonic Transport, 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, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Since 1999, Haslem has authored Mutual Funds: Risk and Performance Analysis for Decision Making (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), as well as over 20 journal articles. Chaired professor Charles P. Jones of North Carolina State University calls the book "definitive," and Vanguard founder John C. Bogle refers to it as a "marvelous compendium."
The journal articles focus on financial, regulatory, and policy issues concerning mutual funds. The general topics include normative transparency of disclosure, and the relationship of expense dispersion to performance measures and to portfolio characteristics of retail and institutional actively managed and index equity funds. The research also appears in The Professor's Reading Room column in the Journal of Indexes. Haslem serves on the Board of Judges of The William F. Sharpe Indexing Achievement Awards presented at the Annual Super Bowl of Indexing.
