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Contributors
Rob Arnott
Rob Arnott is chairman and founder of asset management firm Research
Affiliates, LLC. He is also the former chairman of First Quadrant, LP and has
served as a global equity strategist at Salomon Brothers (now part of Citigroup)
and as the president of TSA Capital Management (now part of Analytic). Arnott
was editor-in-chief at the Financial Analysts Journal from 2002 through 2006,
and has been widely published in financial journals and magazines. He graduated
summa cum laude from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1977.
David Blitzer
David Blitzer is managing director and chairman of the S&P Index Committee. He
has overall responsibility for security selection for S&P’s indices and index analysis
and management. Prior to becoming chairman, Blitzer was chief economist for
Standard & Poor’s. Before joining Standard & Poor’s, he was corporate economist
at The McGraw-Hill Companies, S&P’s parent corporation. A graduate of Cornell
University, Blitzer received his M.A. in economics from the George Washington
University and his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
Gary Gastineau
Gary Gastineau is a managing member of Managed ETFs LLC and ETF
Consultants LLC; and a partner in Skyhawk Management, LLC, the adviser to a
market-neutral hedge fund that buys ETFs and sells them short. A new edition
of his book, “The Exchange-Traded Funds Manual,” will be published by Wiley
in 2010. He is also the author of “Someone Will Make Money on Your Funds—
Why Not You? A Better Way to Pick Mutual and Exchange-Traded Funds”
(Wiley, 2005). Gastineau is a frequent contributor to the Journal of Indexes.
Craig Israelsen
Craig Israelsen is an associate professor at Brigham Young University. He writes
monthly for Financial Planning magazine. Israelsen is a principal at Target
Date Analytics (www.TDBench.com) and the designer of the 7Twelve Portfolio
(www.7TwelvePortfolio.com). He and Phil Fragasso recently published “Your Nest
Egg Game Plan” (Career Press). Israelsen is also the author of the forthcoming book
“7Twelve: A Diversified Portfolio with a Plan” (John Wiley & Sons). He holds a Ph.D.
in family resource management from Brigham Young University.
Matt Moran
Matt Moran is vice president, business development, for the Chicago Board
Options Exchange (CBOE). He also has served as trust counsel at Harris Bank
and as vice president at Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Moran is an associate
editor of the Journal of Trading and is on the advisory boards of the Chartered
Alternative Investments Analyst (CAIA) Association and the Journal of Indexes.
He is a licensed attorney-at-law who has received M.B.A. and Juris Doctor
degrees from the University of Illinois.
John Prestbo
John Prestbo is editor and executive director of Dow Jones Indexes and chairman
of the Dow Jones Index Oversight Committee. He joined Dow Jones as a
reporter for the Wall Street Journal in 1964 and was appointed markets editor
in 1983. Prestbo became editor of the Dow Jones World Stock Index in 1993,
which became the Dow Jones Indexes business unit in 1996. He received his
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University.
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