Andrea L. Eisfeldt, Ph.D.

Andrea Eisfeldt is the Laurence D. and Lori W. Fink Endowed Chair in Finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.  Her research focuses on the relationship between financial markets and the macroeconomy.  Eisfeldt’s research has been twice been awarded an Amundi Smith Breeden prize in the Journal of Finance.  Her work has also been awarded the Jensen Prize in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Edwin Mills best paper award from Real Estate Economics, and grants from the National Science Foundation Grant and the Banque du France.  She recently served on the board of the American Finance Association, and currently serves on the board of the UCLA Investment Company.  Eisfeldt is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing, and Economic Fluctuations and Growth working groups.  Eisfeldt serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Political Economy and Journal of Economic Perspectives.   Prior to her appointment at UCLA, Eisfeldt was a tenured Associate Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.  Eisfeldt earned a B.S. with highest honors from the College of Commerce at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.   

In addition to her 23-year career in research and teaching in finance, Professor Eisfeldt has extensive experience in asset management, including as Chief Economist at Structured Portfolio Management and consultant to AQR Capital Management.  Currently, as well as serving on the board of the UCLA Investment Company, she is an academic advisor to Vise, a FinTech investment management firm.  She speaks frequently at conferences, universities, central banks, and asset-management institutions about her research in fixed income and equity markets and her research on valuing intangible assets is used in institutional investment portfolios and the Simplify NEXT Suite of ETFs.