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American financial economist

Eric Falkenstein (born 14 August 1965) is an American financial economist and an expert in the field of low-volatility investing. He is an academic researcher,^[1] blogger, quant portfolio manager, and book author.^[2]

Falkenstein received his economics PhD from Northwestern University in 1994,^[3] and wrote his dissertation on the low return to high volatility stocks.^[3]

Career

He was a teaching assistant for Hyman Minsky at Washington University in St. Louis. He set up a value at risk system for trading operations at KeyCorp bank, then a firm-wide economic risk capital allocation methodology. He was a founding researcher of RiskCalc, Moody's private firm default probability model, the premier private firm default model in the world.^[4]^{[independent source needed]} He has been an equity portfolio manager at Pine River Capital Management and developed trading algorithms for Walleye Software. He is currently working on Ethereum contracts.^[5]

Writing

Falkenstein has blogged for many years and was among the top influencer bloggers according to the Wall Street Journal.^[6] He has written articles that were published in The Journal of Finance,^[7] The Journal of Fixed Income^[8] and Derivatives Quarterly.^[9]

He has written two books: Finding Alpha: The Search for Alpha When Risk and Return Break Down (Wiley, 2009)^[10] and self-published The Missing Risk Premium: Why Low Volatility Investing Works in 2012.^[11]

Personal life

Eric has been a libertarian and became a Christian in March 2016. He is married and has three children.^[12]^{[self-published source]}

References

↑ "SSRN author page". privpapers.ssrn.com. Archived from the original on 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
↑ "Amazon author page: Eric Falkenstein". www.amazon.com. Archived from the original on 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
1 2 Falkenstein, Eric (1994). "Mutual Funds, Idiosyncratic Variance, and Asset Returns". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
↑ "Moody's Analytics RiskCalc" (PDF). Moody's Analytics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
↑ "User Eric Falkenstein". Ethereum Stack Exchange. Archived from the original on 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
↑ Mattich, Alen (2010-12-30). "The Best Economics Blogs". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
↑ Falkenstein, Eric. "Preferences for stock characteristics as revealed by mutual fund portfolio holdings". The Journal of Finance. 51 (1) (March 1996 ed.). Archived from the original on 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
↑ Falkenstein, Eric. "Minimizing Basis Risk From Nonparallel Shifts in the Yield Curve". The Journal of Fixed Income (June 1996 ed.).
↑ Falkenstein, Eric. "Value-at-Risk and Derivatives Risk". Derivatives Quarterly (Fall 1997 ed.).
↑ Cowen, Tyler (September 20, 2009). "Eric Falkenstein's *Finding Alpha*". Marginal REVOLUTION. Archived from the original on 2021-10-04. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
↑ Upbin, Bruce. "One Hedge Fund Ace's Essential Investor Reading List". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
↑ "Falkenblog". Falkenblog. Archived from the original on 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2021-09-15.

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