Martin L. Leibowitz is a financial researcher, business leader, and a managing director of Morgan Stanley.[1][2] His most well-known work is Inside the Yield Book.

Career

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 Inside the Yield Book (co-authored with Sidney Homer), first published in 1972 and reissued in 2004, is 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]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ http://www.morganstanley.com/about/press/articles/3582.html [permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Stocks".[dead link]
  3. ^ Strom, Stephanie (12 April 1995). "Salomon Official to be New Investment Chief for CREF". The New York Times.
  4. ^ a b "Martin L. Leibowitz".
  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.
  10. ^ "Martin Leibowitz". Pensions & Investments. October 27, 2003.
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