Zvi Bodie
Boston University

Zvi Bodie is Professor of Finance and Economics, and has been named the first Norman and Adele Barron Professor in Management, at Boston University 's School of Management . He holds a Ph.D 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. Professor Bodie has published widely on pension finance and investment strategy in leading professional journals. His books include Foundations of Pension Finance , Pensions in the U.S. Economy , Issues in Pension Economics , and Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System . His textbook, Investments , is the market leader and is used in the certification programs of the Financial Planning Association and the Society of Actuaries. His textbook Finance is coauthored by Nobel Prize winning economist, Robert C. Merton. Professor Bodie is a member of the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School , University of Pennsylvania . His latest book is Worry Free Investing: A Safe Approach to Achieving Your Lifetime Financial Goals.

Alex Kane
University of California , San Diego

Alex Kane is professor of finance and economics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California , San Diego . 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. 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.

Alan J. Marcus
Boston College

Alan Marcus is professor of finance in the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College . He received his PhD in economics from MIT. Professor Marcus has been a visiting professor at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration and at MIT's Sloan School of Management and has served as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Marcus has published widely in the fields of capital markets and portfolio management, with an emphasis on applications of futures and options pricing models. His consulting work has ranged from new product development to provision of expert testimony in utility rate proceedings. He also spent two years at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), where he developed models of mortgage pricing and credit risk. He currently serves on the Research Foundation Advisory Board of the CFA Institute.