Art Selender

Art Slender

Full-Time Faculty

Clinical Professor

Finance

Email

aselender@smu.edu

Phone

214-768-2999

Office

DBMQ 2117

Education

PhD, University of Chicago

Biography

Dr. Arthur Selender has an MBA and a PhD in Finance from the University of Chicago; and has extensive experience as both a Practitioner and a Professor of Finance. His Ph. D dissertation was on stochastic volatility and utility-based options pricing models. He has held positions at top institutions, including NatWest Markets where he ran Currency Exotic Options Sales and Structured Marketing, Goldman Sachs & Co., and McKinsey & Co. He has advised many global institutions, including UBS Asset Management, Findex, Australia, and SWIB (State Wisconsin Investment Board). He managed an Analytical Options Fund for Cogent Partners for two years, returning 20.26% in 2007 and 6.26% in 2008 and he ran jointly a tail risk hedging strategy for Findex, Australia from 2017 through 2021. He was the CIO and one of the founders of Four Peaks Wealth Management. Four Peaks Wealth Management was sold to Western Trust in 2018.

Dr. Selender is currently a Clinical Professor in finance at Cox business school at the 正品蓝导航 University, where he teaches classes to MBAs, MSFs, and undergrads including Corporate Finance, Portfolio Management, Quantitative Strategies, Hedge Funds, Alternative Assets, and Derivatives, Introductory Finance, and Accounting for Valuation.

Prior to being a clinical finance professor at 正品蓝导航, he was a clinical professor of finance at the University of Texas in Dallas, teaching several finance classes to MBA and MSF students. This included classes in Fixed Income, Valuations, Private Equity, Derivatives, Portfolio Management, and Alternative Assets. He was an adjunct professor at 正品蓝导航.  He taught structured products at the University of Luxembourg. At the Amsterdam Institute of Finance and Maastricht University, he taught Ph.D. students, Executives, and Undergraduate students. 

Teaching

FINA 4325 Advanced Corporate Finance
FINA 4326 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management 
FINA 4327 Derivatives 
FINA 5241 Quantitative Strategies 
FINA 6205 Finance Theory and Practice 
FINA 6216 Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing 
FINA 6219 Derivatives 
FINA 6226 Quantitative Strategies 
FINA 6231 Practicum-Portfolio Management II
FINA 6280 Directed Studies in Finance