Dr. Shingo Goto is an associate professor of finance at the College of Business Administration, University of Rhode Island (URI).
He also serves as the coordinator of the finance Ph.D. program URI. Before joining URI, he taught at the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. Dr. Goto’s research interests are in equity investments and portfolio management. His studies have been published in Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, and others. Dr. Goto teaches both theories and practical applications of portfolio management to a wide range of students from Ph.D.s to advanced undergraduates.

 He also gave lectures in universities and financial institutions in Japan, China, and Belarus. Besides academic research and teaching, Dr. Goto has been actively involved in the practice of portfolio management. He conducted stock selection research and portfolio implementation research at the Active Equity group of Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco, California, and currently serves as a senior advisor to Research Affiliates, LLC. and an academic advisor to Nomura Asset management. 

Dr. Goto holds a Ph.D. in finance and an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tokyo. His prior work experience includes corporate banking and financial engineering at The Sumitomo Bank, Ltd. He was a Chartered Member of The Security Analysts Association of Japan.