Who We Are

Professor Yu Yuan is the Founder, CEO for Mingshi Investment Management.

Prof. Yuan received his Ph.D in Finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 2008. He also holds a Masters in Finance from The Wharton School, 2007. At the University Wisconsin-Madison Prof Yuan received Masters degrees in both Economics and Statistics, 2003. Prof Yuan started his academic work in Shanghai Jiao Tong University where he received a Bachelor of Science (Finance) in 2001.

Before founding Mingshi, Prof. Yuan held positions as a research associate at the Reserve Bank of Dallas, visiting Professor at the Wharton School, and associate Professor at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance.

Prof. Yuan has 9 published works in top three financial journals. Most recently, he co-authored ‘Size and Value in China’, which was published in the Journal of Financial Economics in October 2019.

As CEO and Head of Strategy,Prof. Yuan is responsible to managing the firm

Professor Robert Stambaugh is an acclaimed US academic and co-founder of Mingshi. He received his B.A from Dickinson College in 1974, cum laude, his M.B.A from the University of Chicago in 1976, and hid PHD under Professor Eugene Fama at the University of Chicago in 1981.

He is currently the Miller Anderson & Sherrerd Professor of Finance at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Stambaugh was Prof. Yuan’s advisor at Wharton.

A brief summary of his achievements includes;
● President, American Finance Association, 2013
● Board of Directors, American Finance Association, 1988–90
● Editorial committee, Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2007–2012
● Editor, Journal of Finance, 2003–2006

Professor Stambaugh acts as Chief Advisor to Mingshi. In this role he advises the team on research and is key to the business direction of the firm.

Stephan is a founding Partner of Mingshi Investment Management and is the firm’s COO and CFO.

Stephan holds a Bachelor of Economics from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and a Masters of Accounting from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is also a licensed CPA.

Stephan ran a successful commodities business in Shanghai, China before shifting focus to equities and joining Mingshi in 2010.

Before joining Mingshi Investment Management , he was Financial Controller of the commodities trading firm, Horner Resources from 2004 to 2010, based in Shanghai.