Contributors
By Journal of Indexes Staff | December 26, 2008

Robert 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.

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. Bogle founded the Vanguard 500 Index Fund, the first index mutual fund, in 1975. Vanguard now holds some $1.3 trillion in assets. His seventh book, “Enough. True Measures of Money, Business, and Life” was published in November.

Craig Israelsen is an associate professor at Brigham Young University. He is a principal at Target Date Analytics LLC, a firm that has developed indexes for the benchmarking and evaluation of target date/life cycle funds. Israelsen is the developer of the 7Twelve Portfolio (www.7TwelvePortfolio.com). He holds a Ph.D. in family resource management from Brigham Young University and an M.S. in agricultural economics from Utah State University. Israelsen previously taught personal and family finance at the University of Missouri.

Paul Kaplan is vice president of quantitative research at Morningstar, Inc. He led the development of quantitative methodologies behind the Morningstar Rating for funds, the Morningstar Style Box and the Morningstar family of indexes. Kaplan joined Morningstar in 1999 from Ibbotson Associates. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, economics and computer science from New York University, and a master’s degree and doctorate in economics from Northwestern University. Kaplan is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Daniel McCabe is chief executive officer of NEXT Investments. Prior to joining the firm, he served as CEO of Bear Hunter Structured Products LLC, an NYSE and AMEX specialist firm. McCabe joined Bear Hunter in 1997 as vice president of Structured and Derivative Products, where he ultimately ran portfolio trading and managed the firm’s overall exposure in ETFs. He has a background in institutional sales, options trading and index arbitrage with Walsh Greenwood, Merrill Lynch and WG Trading.

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.

Luciano Siracusano is the chief investment strategist and director of sales for WisdomTree. He oversaw the creation and development of the company’s proprietary index methodology and other intellectual property. Before joining WisdomTree in 1999, he was an equity analyst at Value Line, Inc. Prior to his career in finance, Siracusano served as a Special Assistant to HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros, and as a Special Assistant to New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo. He is a graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University.