An author of many articles in finance and management journals, Professor Kane’s research is mainly in corporate finance, portfolio management, and capital markets, most recently in the measurement of market volatility and pricing of options. He has been visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Business, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard and research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor of finance and economics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Currently he serves as senior advisor to the Investments and Wealth Institute and consults for a number of financial firms including Dimensional Fund Advisors. With the support of the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute, he organized a series of 3 conferences on the theory and practice of life-cycle finance. He has authored and edited many books and articles on pensions and investing for retirement. In 2007, the Retirement Income Industry Association gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award for applied research. In addition to his textbooks, Bodie has coauthored two books for the mass market: Risk Less and Prosper: Your Guide to Safer Investing and Worry-Free Investing A Safe Approach to Achieving Your Lifetime Financial Goals. Merton has been translated into 9 languages. His textbook Financial Economics coauthored by Nobel-Prize winning economist Robert C. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School and MIT's Sloan School of Management. His main professional interest is to firmly establish finance as an applied science built on the principles explained in his books and websites. Today, he is an independent financial consultant and educator. Zvi Bodie is Professor Emeritus at Boston University, where he taught from 1973 to 2016. He currently serves on the Research Foundation Advisory Board of the CFA Institute. Professor Marcus also spent two years at Freddie Mac, where he helped to develop mortgage pricing and credit risk models. Professor Marcus has served as a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is co-author (with Zvi Bodie and Alex Kane) of the texts Investments and Essentials of Investments.

His main research interests are in derivatives and securities markets.

Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Marcus is a Professor of Finance in the Wallace E.

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