Daniel Burnside

Clinical Professor of Finance University of Rochester | Simon School of Business

  • Rochester NY

Burnside is a chartered financial analyst and an expert in money management and financial planning.

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University of Rochester

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Areas of Expertise

Personal Finance
Financial Planning
Investment Management
Money Management
Quantitative Research
Risk Management
Finance

Media

Social

Biography

Dr. Daniel Burnside is the former director of quantitative research at Clover Capital Management in Rochester, N.Y. He has held various roles in the investment, risk management and financial planning fields, and has worked extensively with both individual and institutional clientele. Burnside is a chartered financial analyst (CFA).

Education

University of Rochester / Simon School of Business

MS

Business Administration

2001

Cornell University

PhD

Philosophy

1995

Selected Media Appearances

Here’s How Gen Z Can Financially Cope with Tariffs

U.S. News & World Report  online

2025-05-08

Building a savings fund is especially important for Gen Z, says Daniel Burnside, a clinical professor of finance at the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester, in New York.

“If you like living on the edge, then by all means, spend everything you earn and cross your fingers,” Burnside says. But he doesn’t recommend it. “Things happen, and they seem always to cost money when they do,” he says.

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High CD Yields Could Rise Even More If The Fed Boosts Rates; Should You Wait?

Forbes  print

2023-07-20

Daniel Burnside, a clinical professor of finance at the University of Rochester, says there’s no automatic connection between the Fed rate and CD rates.

“It’s not as if they change the target rate and then CDs are higher that day. It just depends on the bank,” he notes.

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What happened to RealEats? Public records hold clues

Democrat & Chronicle  print

2023-03-20

Daniel Burnside is clinical professor of finance at Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester. After spending years working in the investment business, he now teaches courses in finance. While Burnside doesn't have direct knowledge of RealEats, he has enough experience dealing with startups to speculate what might have happened to the company.

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