In a world drenched in data, we must ensure that students know the meaning of numbers. Our world is awash in numbers. Headlines report the latest interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, hikes or ...

Institutional investors face complex decisions—where to allocate capital, which managers to trust, how to weather volatility. These choices can’t rely on instinct alone. They require data, structure, ...

The numbers in a results section may be objectively correct, but their meaningfulness is only made clear through the interpretation of the human reporting them. This is not a criticism but is an ...

Analyzing your financial reports should go beyond looking at bottom-line numbers if you want to get the truest picture of how your spending is affecting your profits. Just because an expense doesn't ...

Quantitative investing is an investment process in which securities are chosen based on defined rules. Conventional active management involves a team doing security-specific research: modeling company ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

As a researcher who has used a wide variety of methodologies, I understand the importance of acknowledging that we, as researchers, do not pick the methodology; rather, the research question dictates ...