Liang Guo

I am currently a Professor of Finance in the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration at CSUSB. I earned my Ph.D. degree in Finance at UTSA and MBA degree at Boston University. I have also passed all three exams of CFA.

I believe that teaching future business and finance professionals enables me to fulfill in a highly meaningful way a personal goal of service to the community and to my profession. For years I have been responsible for FIN 5460 Student Managed Investment Fund at CSUSB (a.k.a., SMIF, a real-money fund portfolio sponsored by Citizens Business Bank (CBB)) whose purpose is to give the students hands-on experience and the responsibility for managing real money in today’s changing investment world. I guide undergraduate and graduate students every semester through their research, analysis, trading, and portfolio management processes and work with students’ oral and written presentations to the Chief Investment/Financial Officers of CBB. With MY guidance, students gain extensive hands-on experience at performing investment research, investing money, and managing a portfolio before entering the workforce.

The student evaluation in terms of overall approval of my teaching skill for my recent classes is 5.5 out of 6 on average. I would welcome the opportunity to teach a variety of courses, including Corporate Finance, Investments, Portfolio Management, Student Managed Investment Fund, Derivatives, International Finance, Asset Valuation, etc. On the journey of educational enrichment through the classroom experience and extracurricular activities, I work hard to be a mentor, a friend, and a colleague to my students.

In addition, I have endeavored to establish a good pipeline for my research and have strived to be a productive researcher and publish papers in well-regarded journals. My research interests include asset pricing anomalies, financial topics in the emerging markets, public pension funds, style investing and ethical investing, earning managements, political economics, disclosures, etc. So far I have published 1 book and have 16 articles accepted for publication in high-quality journals, including Journal of Futures Markets, International Review of Financial Analysis, International Review of Finance, Journal of Fixed income, and International Review of Economics and Finance. Now I am an associate/ guest editor of 2 business journals and I have been serving on the editorial board and review committee for more than 20 business journals and organizations.