Meir Statman is the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. His research focuses on behavioral finance. He attempts to understand how investors and managers make financial decisions and how these decisions are reflected in financial markets.

The questions he addresses include: What are the cognitive errors and emotions that influence investors? What are investor aspirations? How can financial advisors and plan sponsors help investors? What is the nature of risk and regret? How do investors form portfolios? How important are tactical asset allocation and strategic asset allocation? What determines stock returns? What are the effects of sentiment?

Meir’s research has been published in The Financial Analysts Journal, The Journal of Portfolio Management, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and many other journals. The research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute and the Dean Witter Foundation. Meir is a member of the Editorial Board of the Financial Analysts Journal, the Advisory Board of the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Journal of Investment Consulting, an Associate Editor of The Journal of Financial Research, the Journal of Behavioral Finance, and the Journal of Investment Management and a recipient of a Batterymarch Fellowship, a William F. Sharpe Best Paper Award, a Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Outstanding Article Award and two Graham and Dodd Awards of Excellence. Meir consulted with many investment companies and presented his work to academics and professionals in many forums in the U.S. and abroad.

Meir received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and his B.A. and M.B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.