Geert Rouwenhorst

{{short description|American economist}}

K. Geert Rouwenhorst is a Dutch-American investor and professor of finance.

He was hired at Yale University in 1990. In 2012, he was appointed the Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Professor at Yale School of Management and deputy director for International Financial Center at Yale. His work has traced the history of mutual funds through 18th century Netherlands.{{cite journal|last1=Rowenhorst|first1=K.Geert|title=The Origins of Mutual Funds|journal=Yale ICF Working Paper No. 04-48|date=December 12, 2004|ssrn=636146}}{{cite book|author1=William Goetzmann|author2=K. Geert Rouwenhorst|title=The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-oi7Osz2Ss0C|year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-517571-4}} The International Financial Center at Yale also holds the oldest non-defaulted bond in the world.

His work with Gary B. Gorton circa 2012{{cite journal|last1=Gorton|first1=Gary|last2=Hayashi|first2=Fumio|last3=Rouwenhorst|first3=K. Geert|title=The Fundamentals of Commodity Futures Returns|journal=Yale ICF Working Paper No. 07-08|date=February 7, 2012|ssrn=996930}} has been influential in establishing the idea of commodities as an asset class and has fueled the rise of commodity indices and exchange-traded funds. He has studied the relative performance of futures and the underlying commodities.{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0522/086.html|title=Precious Commodities |last=Fisher |first=Daniel |date=May 22, 2006|work=Forbes|accessdate=19 January 2010}}

Rouwenhorst is also a partner at SummerHaven Investment management, a smaller firm which focuses on commodities.{{cite web|title=Our People|url=http://summerhavenim.com/our-people.html|publisher=Summerhaven.com}}