Martin L. Leibowitz

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Martin L. Leibowitz is a financial researcher, business leader, and a managing director of Morgan Stanley. [1] [2]

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Before joining Morgan Stanley, Leibowitz was vice chairman and chief investment officer of TIAA-CREF from 1995 to 2004. Previously he had worked for 26 years for Salomon Brothers, rising to become its Managing Director in charge of research. [3] [4] He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study. [5] In April 2009 he was named adviser to the Board of Directors to Singapore's sovereign fund. In March 2012, he was appointed to The Rockefeller Foundation’s Board of Trustees. [6]

Leibowitz has authored several books and more than 150 articles, 10 of which have received the Financial Analysts Journal's Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence. [7] His most well-known work (co-authored with Sidney Homer) is Inside the Yield Book , first published in 1972 and reissued in 2004, a work which, according to Frank Fabozzi, "transformed the markets’ understanding of bonds." [8] He was instrumental in developing the dedicated portfolio theory in the 1980s.

Leibowitz is also the recipient of the following CFA Institute Awards: the Nicholas Molodovsky Award in 1995, the James R. Vertin Award in 1998, and the Award for Professional Excellence in 2005. [9] In 1995, he was the first person inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame. [4]

Leibowitz holds both a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Courant Institute of New York University. [10]

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  3. ↑ Strom, Stephanie (12 April 1995). "Salomon Official to be New Investment Chief for CREF". The New York Times.
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  5. ↑ "Board of Trustees | Institute for Advanced Study". 6 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "Martin L. Leibowitz and Monica Lozano Join The Rockefeller Foundation Board of Trustees - The Rockefeller Foundation". The Rockefeller Foundation. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  7. ↑ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_May_11/ai_n13680904/ [ bare URL ]
  8. ↑ "Carnegie Corporation of New York: New Books". Archived from the original on 2010-10-28. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
  9. ↑ "Yale's David F. Swensen Receives the CFA Institute Award for Professional Excellence". Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
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