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David Blitzer |
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. Mr. Blitzer is often quoted in the national business press and is the author of Outpacing the Pros: Using Indexes to Beat Wall Street’s Savviest Money Managers, McGraw-Hill, 2001. |
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John Bogle |
John Bogle is the founder and former CEO of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and president of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard in 1974 and had been associated with a predecessor company since 1951, following his graduation from Princeton University magna cum laude in economics. Mr. Bogle founded the Vanguard 500 Index Fund, the first index mutual fund, in 1975. Vanguard now comprises some 130 mutual funds with $1.3 trillion in assets.
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Don Chance |
Don Chance holds the William H. Wright, Jr. Endowed Chair for Financial Services at Louisiana State University. He was formerly First Union Professor of Financial Risk Management at Virginia Tech and prior to his academic career, he worked for a large southeastern bank. Professor Chance has authored three books, including co-authoring An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management, now in its 7th edition. He frequently speaks at conferences on indexing and ETFs. |
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Murray Coleman |
Murray Coleman is the managing editor of IndexUniverse.com and the director of research for Index Publications LLC, the publisher of the Journal of Indexes. Prior to joining Index Publications, Mr. Coleman was a mutual funds reporter for Dow Jones’ Marketwatch.com, and earlier, for Investor’s Business Daily. His experience reporting on the financial industry stretches back more than two decades. |
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John Haslem |
John Haslem is professor emeritus of finance at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. He served the Smith School as founding academic affairs dean and as founding chair of the finance department. His mutual funds analysis course was the first of its kind. Mr. Haslem has authored five books, including Mutual Funds: Risk and Performance Analysis for Decision Making, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
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John Neumann |
John Neumann is the assistant professor of economics and finance, and director of the Financial Information Lab, at the Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University. Professor Neumann completed his doctorate in business administration from Boston University’s School of Management during the summer of 2003. In between receiving his DBA and a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School in 1986, Dr. Neumann built information systems over 10 years for Arthur Andersen & Co. (now Accenture), Robert A. Stanger & Co. and AT&T. |
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Robert Waid |
Robert Waid is the head of index research for Wilshire Equity Analytics. Mr. Waid has two decades of index-related experience at Wilshire Associates and is now closely involved with the Dow Jones Wilshire indexes. His prior responsibilities included overseeing Wilshire’s Proprietary Investment department and Proprietary Research, where he was responsible for the development, implementation and management of domestic long/short programs. Before taking on his money management role, Mr. Waid oversaw Wilshire’s Database Systems Group. |
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