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David Blitzer is the chairman of the S&P 500 Index Committee and a member of Standard & Poor's Investment Policy Committee and Economic Forecast Council. He previously served as corporate economist at McGraw-Hill and as senior economic analyst with National Economic Research Associates. Blitzer is often quoted in the national business press and is the author of Outpacing the Pros: Using Indices to Beat Wall Street's Savviest Money Managers, McGraw-Hill, 2001.
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Craig Israelsen is an associate professor at Brigham Young University in Provo,Utah. He holds a Ph.D. in Family Resource Management from Brigham YoungUniversity and a M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Utah State University. Hetaught personal and family finance at the University of Missouri for 14 years, priorto returning to BYU. Primary among his research interests is the analysis of mutualfunds. Israelsen writes monthly for Financial Planning magazine.
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Jonathan Mazer, a partner at the law firm of Fox Horan & Camerini LLP, hasbeen in private practice since 1994. An experienced litigator, he representsinternational and domestic clients, concentrating his practice on complexcommercial disputes. He has a J.D. from New York University School of La wand a master's degree in philosophy from the New York University GraduateSchool of Arts and Sciences.
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Albert Neubert is senior vice president of business development at Information Management Network (IMN) and is a leading index industry consultant.Neubert previously worked at Dow Jones Indexes and STOXX, and atS&P Indexes, where he managed the S&P 500, and led the development of theS&P MidCap 400, S&P SmallCap 600 and SuperComposite 1500 indexes. Mr.Neubert holds an M.B.A. from New York University. |
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Alison M. Rende is a law clerk to the Honorable Richard K. Eaton of the United States Court of International Trade. She was formerly a litigation associate at Fox Horan & Camerini LLP, where her practice focused on complex commercial disputes in the federal and state courts. She graduated cum laude from Pace Law School and was an editor of the Pace International Law Review. |
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Tom Sanders teaches derivatives, banking and international finance at the University of Miami, and has a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Colorado.He has written articles on derivatives and banking for the Journal of FuturesM a r kets; Journal of Multinational Financial Management; Journal of Financial ServicesResearch; International Journal of Finance; and the Commercial Lending Review, amongother publications. He previously worked as an international loan officer for severalNew York banks. |
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W. Brian Barrett is associate professor of Finance at the University of Florida. Dr. Bryant received a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1983, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is a specialist in bond markets, financial futures, portfolio management and interest rate models. His research articles have appeared in the Journal of Finance, Financial Review, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, and The Financial Analysts Journal, among other publications. |
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Nick Ronalds is a director in the futures group at UBS Securities LLC, responsible for working with clients on risk and portfolio management strategies. He previously worked in global marketing at ABN AMRO. With deep experience in Asia, Ronalds earlier served as a managing director of the joint Chicago Mercantile
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