JACK TREYNOR

Jack is President of Treynor Capital Management. Previously General Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Treynor-Arbit Associates, he was for many years editor of the Financial Analysts Journal. In addition to his book The Financial Reality of Pension Funding under ERISA with William Priest and Patrick Regan, he is the author of more than 70 papers published in the Harvard Business Review, the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Investment Management, and others. He is the author of Treynor on Institutional Investing (Wiley, 2007), a collection of his work. He has taught the investments course at Columbia and the University of Southern California and lectured in many foreign countries. At various times he has been a general partner or director of certain investment companies. He serves on the advisory boards of the Financial Analysts Journal and the Journal of Investment Management. Along with William Sharpe, Robert Merton, Harry Markowitz, and others, he is a Distinguished Fellow for the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance. He majored in mathematics at Haverford College, wrote cases for a year after graduating (with Distinction) from Harvard Business School, and devoted a sabbatical year to the study of economics at MIT.

Advisory Panel

  Keith Ambachtsheer
  Burton Malkiel
  Harry Markowitz
  Richard Roll
  Jack Treynor