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Iconic Course Returns Students to NYC
The Walk Down Wall Street class offers an experiential, unforgettable week in one of the world’s financial capitals.
What Studying the Volatility Index Tells Us
Peter Lung is the Denver Clearing House Endowed Chair in the Reiman School of Finance. For more than 18 years, he has studied the volatility index (VIX), which uses the S&P 500 to measure whether the financial market is calm or nervous. Also known as a “fear...
MBA Alum Invests in Students’ Success
“The University of Denver is a special place,” said Russell Noles (MBA 1989). “So many of the faculty members have both the academic training and the practitioner perspective. DU brings the practical and the academic together so well, enriching the student...
Daniels Student Graduates to World of Possibilities
“Wow,” Andres Pulido says over Zoom. “We’re getting deep.” We’re about half an hour into an interview about his life and college experience, a couple months before he walks across the graduation stage at Magness Arena. The question at hand is about the value he places...
Connections Help Grad Land Dream Consulting Job
Cain Menard has a standard party trick: When he meets someone new, he tries to find a connection with them—seeing if they have someone in common. “Six degrees of separation says that you’re six degrees from everyone on Earth,” explains Menard, who is graduating with...
Q&A: How COVID lockdowns and financial policies affected the stock market
The stock market doesn’t tend to do well amid fear and uncertainty. The COVID-19 pandemic brought both. As the world scrambled to fight a remarkably infectious disease, Wall Street took a nosedive while businesses closed and laid off employees. Even a year after the...
10 Questions With Mac Clouse: What’s a SPAC?
A recent episode of HBO’s "Billions" series begins with its characters—the owner and employees of a large hedge fund—discussing something called a SPAC. Oddly, their dialogue excludes a definition, leaving us, as viewers, wondering, Huh? What’s a SPAC? SPAC is an...
Senior Shines on Unexpected Stage
As University of Denver senior Sophia Mellsop thinks about graduating from DU in Spring 2022, she isn’t where she expected to be. A gifted ballet dancer, Mellsop left her home in Salida, Colorado, and joined Colorado Ballet’s invitation-only training program in Denver...