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Timothy Timura Professorial Lecturer Department of Finance and Real Estate

Additional Positions at AU
Faculty Director: SMIF, REIT, and ESG Fund Investing Programs
Degrees
BA Dickinson College (Charles Dana Scholar (Economics))
MS University of Pennsylvania (GSE: Philosophy of Learning)
MBA University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wisconsin: Applied Security Analysis Program)
EdD University of Pennsylvania (Wharton ExEd, GSE: Experiential Learning Theory in Finance)
DBA Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead: Behavioral Finance)
Postdoctoral Studies University of Florida-Gainesville (Warrington: Alternative Assets)

Bio
Dr. Timothy Timura, CFA, CAIA is a member of the Kogod School of Business Finance and Real Estate faculty. By his own account, he successfully completed "The Timura Trilogy" - having served in the professional, academic and government worlds. In recognition of his accomplishments, in 2018, the Portage, Pennsylvania native was awarded a Fulbright by the US Department of State.
Professionally, for over thirty years, Timothy has held investment management positions with Federated Investors, Principal Financial, and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio (OhioSTRS). Academically, prior to KSB, he taught financial economics at The Ohio State University, the Pennsylvania Bankers Association School at Bucknell University, Lehigh University, the University of Pennsylvania, and participated as a Research Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. Most recently, Timothy accepted the role of Enforcement Consultant with the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (ERISA) group and before that, served as Deputy Chief Economist and Deputy Director at the US Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA).  He has twice been elected to public office.
A passionate disciple of Paulo Freire's educational pedagogy / critical consciousness; a champion of expectation-based investment processes; a defender of alternative asset investment strategies; a votary of behavioral finance principles; a proponent of Kolb's experiential learning theory; and the author of The Duplicity Effect, The Retirement Learning Cycle, Is Wall Street Research Useful? and When Experience Alone Is Not Enough, Timura has research interests in experiential learning theory (as applied to financial citizenship, financial literacy, case studies, and expectations-based student managed investment / real estate investment trust programs) as well as teaching interests in his Hedge Fund Philosophies, Critical Financial Citizenship, Python for Finance, and ESG Fund Investing courses.
For the Media
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Teaching

Spring 2023

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Responsible Financial Citizens

  • FIN-369 Investment Analysis

  • FIN-470 Alternative Assets

  • FIN-496 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Environmt Soc Governance Funds

  • FIN-576 Student-Managed Investmnt Fund

  • FIN-576 Student-Managed Investmnt Fund: SMIF LVII

  • REAL-470 Real Estate Investment Trust

2023 Term 2

  • FIN-672 Investment Anly/Portfolio Mgt

Fall 2023

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Responsible Financial Citizens

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Responsible Financial Citizens

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Responsible Financial Citizens

  • FIN-461 Behavioral Finance

  • FIN-496 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Environmt Soc Governance Funds

  • FIN-576 Student-Managed Investmnt Fund

  • REAL-470 Real Estate Investment Trust