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Contributors
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.
Bogle founded the Vanguard 500 Index Fund, the first index mutual fund, in 1975.
Vanguard now holds some $1.3 trillion in assets. Bogle’s seventh book, “Enough.
True Measures of Money, Business, and Life,” was published in November 2008.
Remy Briand
Remy Briand is managing director and global head of Index Research at MSCI
Barra. He is responsible for the continual expansion, refinement and improvement
of the MSCI indices, as well as overseeing their day-to-day management.
Briand also leads MSCI Barra’s applied research team, which identifies earlystage
investment trends. He joined MSCI Barra in 2001 from Crédit Lyonnais
Asset Management, where he was head of Research.
Sabrina Callin
Sabrina Callin is a managing director and member of Pimco’s alternative
investment solutions team, and a product manager for global portable alphabased
equity and unconstrained bond strategies. She is the author of the
book “Portable Alpha Theory and Practice” (2008). Prior to joining Pimco in
1998, Callin was a manager in the assurance and business advisory services
group at KPMG Peat Marwick. She holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University
Graduate School of Business and undergraduate degrees from Texas Christian
University. Callin is also a certified public accountant.
Gary Gastineau
Gary Gastineau is a managing member of Managed ETFs LLC, a firm interested
in launching actively managed ETFs; and a partner in Skyhawk Management,
LLC, the adviser to a market-neutral hedge fund that buys ETFs and sells them
short. He is the author of “The Exchange-Traded Funds Manual,” as well as
“Someone Will Make Money on Your Funds—Why Not You? (A Better Way to
Select Mutual and Exchange-Traded Funds).” Gastineau is a frequent contributor
to the Journal of Indexes.
Steve Jones
Steve Jones is a vice president and product manager for Pimco’s portable
alpha-based equity strategies in the Newport Beach, Calif., office. He was previously
a member of the short-term portfolio management team and also held
positions in account management. Jones is a contributing author of “Portable
Alpha Theory and Practice,” published in 2008. Prior to joining Pimco in 2000,
he was an analyst at Collins Associates, a fund-of-funds investment management
firm. Jones holds an M.B.A. from the Paul Merage School of Business at
the University of California, Irvine.
David Krein
David Krein is senior director of institutional markets for Dow Jones Indexes,
where he serves as a liaison to the institutional investment community globally,
and guides the research and development of new and enhanced index benchmarks.
Prior to joining DJI, Krein was president of DTB Capital, a firm he founded
in 2006 to develop indexes and structured investment products for derivatives
exchanges and the over-the-counter marketplace. Krein holds an M.B.A. with
honors from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
David Owyong
David Owyong, an MSCI vice president, leads the applied research team for
MSCI Barra in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining the firm in 2006, he was the
director of Quantitative Research and Risk Management at Ajia, a Hong Kongbased
hedge fund. Owyong holds an M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics
from Stanford University, and has also obtained the Investment Management
Certificate (IMC Level 3) from the U.K. Society of Investment Professionals.
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