About the Authors

Keith H. Black, PhD, CFA, CAIA, has over 20 years of financial market experience, serving approximately half of that time as an academic and half as a trader and consultant to institutional investors. He currently serves as Associate Director of Curriculum for the CAIA Association. During his most recent role at Ennis Knupp + Associates, he advised foundations, endowments, and pension funds on their asset allocation and manager selection strategies in hedge funds, commodities, and managed futures. Prior experience includes commodities derivatives trading at First Chicago Capital Markets, stock options research and Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) market making for Hull Trading Company, and building quantitative stock selection models for mutual funds and hedge funds for Chicago Investment Analytics. Dr. Black previously served as an assistant professor and senior lecturer at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Business, where he taught courses in both traditional and alternative investments.

He contributes regularly to the CFA Digest, and has published in the Journal of Global Financial Markets, the Journal of Trading, the Journal of Financial Compliance and Regulation, the Journal of Investing, the Journal of Environmental Investing, and Derivatives Use Trading and Regulation. He is the author of the book Managing a Hedge Fund. Dr. Black was named to Institutional Investor magazine's list of “Rising Stars of Hedge Funds” in 2010.

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