Mike Staunton

Mike Staunton was a finance researcher at London Business School, where he earned an MBA and a PhD in finance and directed the London Share Price Database from the late 1990s. With Elroy Dimson and Paul Marsh he built the long-run DMS returns dataset, co-wrote Triumph of the Optimists and produced the Global Investment Returns Yearbook every year from 2000. London Business School announced his death in September 2026.