Matteo Binfarè, Robert S. Harris, Paying Managers of Complex Portfolios: Evidence on Compensation and Performance from Endowments, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2024, Pages 1 – 64.
Finance
Matteo Binfarè
Assistant Professor
Matteo Binfarè is an Assistant Professor in the Finance Department at the Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business, University of Missouri. Professor Binfarè's research focuses on alternative investments and corporate finance, with an emphasis on university endowments, foundations, and pension funds. His work on university endowments received the Two Sigma Award for Best Paper on Investment Management at the 2019 Western Finance Association meetings. Professor Binfarè's research has been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Review of Finance. His work has also been featured in Financial Times FundFire, Institutional Investor, and the CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor.
He earned his doctorate in finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and both an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in finance from Bocconi University. Prior to his Ph.D., Binfarè worked in Debt Capital Markets (DCM) and Structured Finance at Mediobanca, an Italian investment bank. He has passed all three levels of the CFA program.
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Finance (2020); M.Sc., Bocconi University, Finance (2014); B.S., Bocconi University, Finance (2011)
Awards
2019 Western Finance Association - Two Sigma Award for Best Paper on Investment Management
Publications
Matteo Binfarè, Gregory Brown, Robert Harris, Christian Lundblad, How Does Human Capital Affect Investing? Evidence from University Endowments, Review of Finance, Volume 27, Issue 1, February 2023, Pages 143–188.