Rate My Professor Mikhail Simutin

Mikhail Simutin is a Professor of Finance at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He holds the CIT Chair in Structured Finance and serves as Area Coordinator of the Finance Area. He is also Associate Director of Research at the International Centre for Pension Management. Simutin earned a BA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Washington in 2004 and a PhD in Finance from the University of British Columbia in 2010. He joined the University of Toronto as Assistant Professor of Finance in 2010, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017, and to Professor in 2023.

Simutin’s research focuses on institutional money management and risks that affect asset prices. His work has appeared in leading finance journals including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Finance, and the Review of Asset Pricing Studies. Notable publications include “Managerial Activeness and Mutual Fund Performance” (2015), “Leverage Constraints and Asset Prices: Insights from Mutual Fund Risk Taking” (2018), and “The term structure of equity risk premia: Levered noise and new estimates” (2023). He has received the Best Paper Award from the Review of Asset Pricing Studies, the Governor’s Award from the Bank of Canada, and multiple best paper awards at academic conferences. Simutin has been recognized for teaching excellence, including selection as one of the 40 Under 40 Most Outstanding Business School Professors and repeated recognition as MBA Instructor of the Year. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and has presented his research at numerous conferences and seminars worldwide.