Geert Rouwenhorst

K. Geert Rouwenhorst is a Dutch-American investor and professor of finance.

He was hired at Yale University in 1990. In 2012, he was appointed the Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Professor at Yale School of Management and Deputy Director for International Financial Center at Yale. His work has traced the history of mutual funds through 18th century Netherlands.[1][2] The International Financial Center at Yale also holds the oldest non-defaulted bond in the world.

His work with Gary B. Gorton circa 2012[3] has been influential in establishing the idea of commodities as an asset class and has fueled the rise of commodity indices and exchange-traded funds. He has studied the relative performance of futures and the underlying commodities.[4]

Rouwenhorst is also a partner at SummerHaven Investment management, a smaller firm which focuses on commodities.[5]

Degrees

References

  1. ^ Rowenhorst, K.Geert (December 12, 2004). "The Origins of Mutual Funds". Yale ICF Working Paper No. 04-48. SSRN 636146.
  2. ^ William Goetzmann; K. Geert Rouwenhorst (2005). The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517571-4.
  3. ^ Gorton, Gary; Hayashi, Fumio; Rouwenhorst, K. Geert (February 7, 2012). "The Fundamentals of Commodity Futures Returns". Yale ICF Working Paper No. 07-08. SSRN 996930.
  4. ^ Fisher, Daniel (May 22, 2006). "Precious Commodities". Forbes. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
  5. ^ "Our People". Summerhaven.com.


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