Dr. Sunil Wahal is the Jack D. Furst Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for Responsible Investing at the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. Before joining the ASU faculty in 2005, Dr. Wahal was on the faculty at Emory University and Purdue University. Dr Wahal’s research focuses on short and long-horizon investment strategies (momentum, profitability, and others), trading issues (trading algorithm design, trading costs, and high frequency trading), and delegated portfolio management and asset allocation for large institutional investors. His work covers public equities, fixed income, and private equity. He has published extensively in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies and numerous other journals. He is a consultant to Avantis Investors. Prior to that he was a consultant to Dimensional Fund Advisors (2005-2019), and AJO Partners. He sits on a number of investment committees for several RIAs. He is a regular speaker at academic and practitioner conferences and has given numerous presentations to sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, family offices, DB plans, DC plans, and registered investment advisors.  

Email: [email protected]
Contact no: 480-965-8755
Department: WPC Dept of Finance BAC 516 TEMPE, AZ 85287-3906
Mail code: 3906
Campus: Tempe
 

• Trading
• Investment Strategies
• Institutional Investors
   

• “R&D, Innovation, and the Stock Market,” with Amit Goyal.
• “Forbearance in Institutional Investment Management: Evidence from Survey Data,” with Amit Goyal and Ramon Tol.
• "Picking Partners: Manager Selection in Private Markets," with Amit Goyal and M. Deniz Yavuz.
• "Flow Diversification", with Albert Wang.