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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.OnTargetIndex.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.
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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.
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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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