Background
Hsieh, David Arthur was born on August 1, 1953 in Hong Kong. Came to the United States, 1968. Son of Community College and Zaza Hsieh.
Hsieh, David Arthur was born on August 1, 1953 in Hong Kong. Came to the United States, 1968. Son of Community College and Zaza Hsieh.
He enrolled as a freshman at Phillips Academy, Andover in 1972 and graduated cum laude. He then went to Yale University and graduated summa cum laude and junior Phi Betta Kappa with a Bachelor of Surgery in Mathematics and Economics.
He has done extensive research on hedge funds and alternative beta, which includes dynamics of asset prices and their implications for financial risk management and risk and return in hedge funds and commodity funds. Hsieh then spent a year working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before going to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate school where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics. Hsieh first taught as an associate professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and now teaches at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, where he was awarded the Bank of America Faculty Award in 2002.
He has been invited to give talks at almost 80 different occasions and has authored or co-authored almost 50 different papers or books
Plan Sponsor Magazine, July-August 1998, Q&A: Hedging for Diversification, by Gregory J. Millman. Business Leader, January 2006, "Hedge Funds: Investing"s Best Kept Secret," by Brad Wyckoff.
Barron"s, March 27, 2006. "Anyone Here Seen Alpha?" by Jack Willoughby.
Member American Economic Association, American Finance Association, Econometrica Society.
Married Priscilla M. Ching, June 26, 1983. Children: Terence Arthur, Nathan Thomas.