Questions Shaping Finance | Off the Charts

What happens when academic finance meets the real world? In this episode of Off the Charts, TrueShares CEO Mike Loukas sits down with finance professor and researcher Derek Horstmeyer to discuss the connection between academic research and the practical challenges shaping today’s financial markets. Derek shares how the Future Finance Lab brings students and researchers together to explore real-world questions around stablecoins, tokenization, leveraged ETFs, perpetuals, AI agents, and more—and how academic research can help address emerging questions in the financial industry. They also discuss Derek’s journey into financial research, the value of curiosity in finance, and why the gap between academia and industry may be smaller than it seems. #finance #investing #financialmarkets #ai #stablecoins #etfs