David Arthur Hsieh (born August 1, 1953, in Hong Kong) is a professor of

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at the

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. He has done extensive research on hedge funds and alternative

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, which includes dynamics of asset prices and their implications for

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and risk and return in hedge funds and commodity funds.

Early life

On August 1, 1953, Hsieh was born in Hong Kong. At 14, Hsieh immigrated from Hong Kong to the White Plains, New York, U.S. In 1972, Hsieh graduated from

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, a university-prep school in Andover, Massachusetts

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Education

In 1976 Hsieh graduated with a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from Yale University with

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. Hsieh then spent a year working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before going to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate school. In 1981, Hsieh earned a Ph.D in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career

In 1981, Hsieh's teaching career began as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Hsieh is a professor at the

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. Hsieh has multiple research papers on Hedge funds I professional journals. Hsieh has been an editor of professional journals such as Management Science, Economics Letters, Journal of Empirical Finance, and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He is a guest speaker at approximately 80 different occasions. Hsieh has authored or co-authored over 50 different papers or books.

Awards

In 2002 Hsieh was awarded the Bank of America Faculty Award. Hsieh has received the CFA, Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence for the paper "Hedge Fund Benchmarks: A Risk-Based Approach", co-authored with William Fung and published in the ''Financial Analysts Journal'' in 2004; the Fischer Black Memorial Foundation and the 1999 Robert J. Schwartz Memorial Prize for the best paper on hedge funds.; the Smith Breeden First Prize for the best paper in the ''Journal of Finance'' for the article "Margin Regulation and Stock Market Volatility" joint with Merton H. Miller; and the Yale Science and Engineering Association High Scholarship Award, a college award for the highest class standing after 7 semesters.

References

External links

David Hsieh's Curriculum Vitae"David A. Hsieh."
Duke Faculty Profile. 2010. Retrieved Dec. 12, 2010.

Interviews

*''Plan Sponsor Magazine'', Jul-Aug 1998, Q&A: Hedging for Diversification, by Gregory J. Millman. *''Business Leader'', January 2006, "Hedge Funds: Investing's Best Kept Secret," by Brad Wyckoff. *''Barron's'', March 27, 2006. "Anyone Here Seen Alpha?" by Jack Willoughby. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hsieh, David Living people 1953 births Hong Kong emigrants to the United States Duke University faculty People from White Plains, New York MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni Yale University alumni University of Chicago faculty American people of Chinese descent