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Laurence Siegel to be Senior Advisor at U.S. broker dealer Ounavarra Capital

Monday, October 05, 2009

The partners of Ounavarra Capital LLC announced that Laurence B. Siegel will be acting as Senior Advisor to the firm.

Mr. Siegel is and will continue as Research Director of the Research Foundation of CFA Institute. He was most recently and since 1994, the director of research in the Investment Division of the Ford Foundation. He was part of a team of six senior professionals managing their $10 billion endowment fund, which is invested in stocks, bonds, real estate, private equity, and hedge funds. Before that, he was a managing director of Ibbotson Associates, an investment consulting firm that he helped to establish in 1979.

Mr. Siegel also chairs the investment committee of the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe, and serves on the investment committee of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Mr. Siegel is a member of the editorial boards of the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Portfolio Management, and the Journal of Investing, and serves on the board of directors and program committee of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (the Q Group). His first book, Benchmarks and Investment Management, was published by the CFA Institute in 2003. With Zvi Bodie and Dennis McLeavey, he co-edited the book The Future of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing, published by the CFA Institute in 2007. He is currently editing a book on the crash of 2007-2009.

In 2009, Mr. Siegel won the first annual EDHEC-Robeco prize for best article, presen......................

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