Yale’s Shyam Sunder to teach portfolio management course with student-run fund

Yale University students will get a chance to step into the role of portfolio managers for a new student-run investment fund on campus. Economics professor Shyam Sunder will teach a security analysis course as a two-semester sequence with Professor Matthew Spiegel, related to the fund.

Leaders of the Investment Management Club worked with faculty and Yale SOM’s International Center for Finance to create the student-run fund, which has been established by the school with an initial investment of $500,000, a Yale press release said.

Sunder, the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics, and Finance at the Yale School of Management and economics professor, is a renowned accounting theorist and experimental economist. His research contributions include financial reporting, information in security markets, statistical theory of valuation, and design of electronic markets. His university biodata calls him a pioneer in the fields of experimental finance and experimental macroeconomics.

He has won many awards for his research and has written numerous books and more than 200 articles. Sunder’s current research includes the problem of structuring U.S. and international accounting and auditing institutions to obtain a judicious and efficient balance between regulatory oversight and market competition.

He is a past president of the American Accounting Association, former director of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at Yale, honorary research director of Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai, and distinguished fellow of the Center for Study of Science and Technology Policy in Bengaluru.