“Improved funding levels are ‘good news’ because they are moving in the right direction,” says Professor Brad Barber, who has studied public pension funds. “But the bad news is that given the current assumptions, there are still not adequate assets to fund the liabilities.”

UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber’s research is cited in a story about the 10 simple ways to get into peace-of-mind investing.

UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber talks about how spread of wealth-management apps could create new risks for clients.

Story cites research from UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber that illustrated the dangers of investors’ overconfidence.

UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber’s research showing that most retail investors around the world underperform the market is cited.

Story cites research from UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber that found individual investors around the globe underperform standard benchmarks, such as low cost index funds, even before costs or taxes.

Stories cites research from UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber that documented the actual performance of thousands of individual investors who traded their own accounts. The research studies found that those who traded more underperformed than those who traded less.

Story cites research from UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber that found that the most active traders had underperformed the market by 6.5% annually.

Story cites research from UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber showing that the more you actively trade, the less you earn.

Story cites research from UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber that trading is hazardous to your wealth. According to the study, those who traded the most had net average returns of just 11.4%, while those who traded the least achieved net average returns of 18.5% per year.

Story cites research on the stock trading behavior of individual investors from UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber. The study showed that individual investors who ignore the advice to buy and hold low-fee, well-diversified portfolios do so to their detriment.

Speculating on a single sector, especially a volatile one such as technology, is risky, but if you want to try anyway, you should only use a small slice of your portfolio, say 5%, according to Brad Barber, a finance professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.

Story cites research from UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber that documented that average individuals’ investing behavior caused them to underperform the market by 1.5% per year, even before taking account of fees and expenses.

Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber’s research “Do (Some) University Endowments Earn Alpha?” on why the endowments for elite universities outperform their peers is cited in the story.

Story refers to research from UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber that found that the average investor underperforms the disciplined and systematic investor.

Story cites a study from UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber that showed that 80 percent of active traders lose money.

Story cites study by Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber that found that trading less and making more thoughtful investment decisions has monetary benefits for women over men.

Story cites research done by Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber on how individuals invest.

SEC Staff Sold Shares Before Cases Made Public: Not so fast says Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber, who cautioned that the research paper from Emory University is in preliminary form and hasn’t yet been through the academic review process. “It nonetheless raises interesting questions if proven to be accurate,” Barber said.

Graduate School of Management Professors Brad Barber and Roger Edelen were awarded Graham and Dodd Scroll Awards from the CFA Institute. The awards recognize outstanding articles published in 2013 in Financial Analysts Journal. Professor Barber’s article was “Do (Some) University Endowments Earn Alpha?,” while Professor Edelen’s article was “Shedding Light on ‘Invisible’ Costs: Trading Costs and Mutual Fund Performance.”

Story cites research from Graduate School of Management Professor Brad Barber. The message of the research is that it makes more sense to follow a consensus sell signal from Wall Street analysts than a consensus buy.

Story cites research conducted by Brad Barber, a professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management that found that the more you trade, the less you earn.

The article cites research by Brad Barber, professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, which argued that generally online traders were overconfident and overtraded.

Public pension funds have become powerful and influential players in today’s global equity markets, investing trillions of dollars of government employees’ retirement nest eggs. Following work with CalPERS, Dean Currall, Professor Brad Barber & Professor Robert Jackson call for a new science for pension fund management.

In their recent paper “Do (Some) University Endowments Earn Alpha.”, Professor Brad M. Barber and Ph.D. student Guojun Wang looked at the long-term performance of university endowments and found no evidence that manager selection, market timing, and tactical asset allocation generated a higher return than the overall stock and bond markets.

While men currently exhibit a higher level of investment knowledge, it’s been outweighed by the women’s emotional advantages when it comes to investment management. This article in Forbes offers some options that men can consider to avoid the effect of “testosterone overload” when it comes to investment management. Professor Barber’s research is cited.

According to Brad Barber, finance professor at UC Davis, human creativity still plays an important role in investing because there are some things a computer either can’t do or can’t do well, including determining whether the patterns that emerge from data crunching make sense.

If you own Apple stock, odds are good you bought it for the wrong reasons. Don’t sell it for the wrong reasons, too.

“Attention is a scarce resource. When there are many alternatives, options that attract attention are more likely to be considered,” wrote Brad M. Barber, a professor in the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis. There’s certainly no shortage of media coverage about Apple, which is still up nearly 30 percent for the year in spite of its recent slide.

MarketWatch draws upon a 2011 study by Brad Barber of UC Davis and his colleague Terrance Odean of Berkeley on individual investors’ behavior to identify the 7 deadly sins that individual investors commit.

This article, about the plans of state pension funds CalPERS and CalSTRS to stick with JPMorgan Chase even after its recent $2 billion loss, cites Professor Brad Barber, who has studied CalPERS shareholder activism in his research.