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Steven Todd

About

Steven Todd is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Quinlan School of Business. Dr. Todd completed his Ph.D. in finance and business economics at the University of Washington in Seattle; he also holds a B.S. degree in Operations Research from Cornell University. Dr. Todd previously served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the Quinlan School of Business. He has also served as the Finance Department Chairperson and the Director of the Master of Science in Finance Program. 

Dr. Todd teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in corporate finance, investments, options, derivatives, credit risk management, financial math and modeling, international finance, portfolio management and investment banking.  His research interests include asset pricing, financial markets and institutions and corporate governance.  He has published papers on securitization, mutual fund performance measurement, managerial compensation, equity analysts and derivatives in several journals, including Real Estate Economics, Journal of Business, Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments, and the Journal of Futures Markets.

Prior to his academic career, Steven Todd worked on Wall Street as an analyst, investment banker and portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch and UBS Securities. He also served as a Director in the CDO Research Group at Wachovia Securities (now Wells Fargo) in the years leading up to the financial crisis.