Reflections on the World of Investments, Finance, and Wealth Management.

Monthly Archives: July, 2012

Book Review: “Backstage Wall Street”

Browse through the business section of any bookstore, and you will likely find a large selection of wealth management or investment books. This genre must be very lucrative for publishers. However, the landscape is also filled with authors who employ sensationalized language and play on our financial insecurities to promote their latest approach to getting [...]

The Value of Jeremy Lin

An article by Jonah Keri, “Taking Stock of Jeremy Lin’s Value,” posted to the the ESPN.com blog Grantland this afternoon offered an interesting look at the financial impact of Jeremy Lin’s sudden rise to fame last winter. For those who were not following the “Linsanity” phenomenon last February, Jeremy Lin was (until today) a point [...]

Death Valley

Todd Houge

Todd Houge is the Curt and Carol Lane Faculty Fellow in the Tippie College of Business. He teaches applied equity valuation, applied portfolio management, and wealth management courses to undergraduate and MBA students. Todd also supervises the department’s award-winning Henry Fund and Krause Fund programs, which provide a real-world, money-management opportunity for UI students.

Todd received a Ph.D. in Finance and an MBA from the University of Iowa. He also earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wartburg College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute.