Andy Kern is an assistant teaching professor in the Finance Department at Trulaske and advisor to the University of Missouri Investment Group.
While at Trulaske, he was Director of the Jeffrey E. Smith Institute of Real Estate and Capital Markets and has also been involved with the Cornell Leadership Program, Alpha Kappa Psi and the College’s study abroad program at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. He was the recipient of the Trulaske College of Business Faculty Member of the Year award in 2015 and the John R. Riggs, Jr. Excellence in MBA Teaching Award in 2019.
Previously he served as senior portfolio manager at New Age Alpha LLC, where he was responsible for the firm’s equity long-short hedge fund as well as the firm’s research initiatives. He also worked as a vice president at Guggenheim Transparent Value where he refined the firm’s proprietary investment process and assisted with sales and marketing efforts.
His research has been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Financial Review. He holds an MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Missouri and a BS from Truman State University.