Bryant adds fixed-income expert, expands investment fund parameters

WITH THE APPOINTMENT of Kevin Maloney to a visiting professorship, Bryant University will be able to expand its course offerings and include fixed-income investments in its student-led Archway Investment Fund. / COURTESY BRYANT UNIVERSITY
WITH THE APPOINTMENT of Kevin Maloney to a visiting professorship, Bryant University will be able to expand its course offerings and include fixed-income investments in its student-led Archway Investment Fund. / COURTESY BRYANT UNIVERSITY

SMITHFIELD – As a way to expand the offerings of its student-led investment fund, Bryant University has extended a visiting professor appointment to Kevin Maloney, a veteran of the finance industry and academic in the field of fixed-income investments.

Maloney’s appointment allows Bryant to expand the components of its Archway Investment Fund to include fixed-income securities.

Established in 2005 with a $200,000 cash investment, the AIF is a two-semester experiential course open to juniors and seniors who must first apply and be accepted to study with Asli Ascioglu, the course’s finance professor. The course is broken down into a fall semester focused on in-depth research and analysis of the markets, and live portfolio management in the spring using 12 new Bloomberg terminals.

Bryant’s finance department chair, Peter Nigro, said knowledge of fixed-income offerings “will enhance student marketability and job placement.”

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In partnership with Ascioglu, Maloney will add a fixed-income sequence, including study of government bonds, corporate bonds, mortgages, asset-backed securities, closed-end funds, and exchange traded funds. As a result, those types of investments will be added to the student-managed portfolio of the AIF.

Maloney was most recently a senior executive with Gottex Fund Managment, a global alternative investment firm. Prior to working in the financial services sector, he had taught at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania.

Maloney is currently teaching an advanced course on fixed income. He added in prepared remarks that “there is no better reward than when someone comes back and says they learned something that helped them be successful.”

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