https://www.stephenowen.net/home daily 1.0 2026-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eecf7a41e0e62706ac773fc/d889f987-2d2d-4088-a62b-0bffd1872e8f/headshot_zoomed_SMU.jpg Home - About Me Stephen Owen is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Owen teaches Financial Management (FINA 3320) and Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (FINA 4326). He is also a coauthor of academic textbooks and instructional resources in finance and business analytics. His primary research interests are empirical asset pricing and financial econometrics, with a focus on financial machine learning, multivariate asset analysis in U.S. and international markets, portfolio optimization and management, textual analysis, and financial education. In conjunction with his teaching and research, Dr. Owen has experience trading and investing in stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies. Before joining SMU, Dr. Owen was an Assistant Professor of Finance in the G. Brint Ryan College of Business at the University of North Texas. There, he taught Financial Markets and Institutions (FINA 4400) at the undergraduate level and Python and Data Analytics for Finance (FINA 5250) at the graduate level. He developed the latter course, which was first offered in Fall 2022. Dr. Owen earned his Ph.D. in Finance from the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University. As part of his graduate education, he studied machine learning in asset pricing at the Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Brigham Young University, where he also completed the Pre-PhD Finance Program in the Marriott School of Business. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eecf7a41e0e62706ac773fc/c10b4756-23ab-4d2a-8a02-9858724221ff/DSC01123.jpeg Home