About the Author
Richard C. Marston is the James R.F. Guy Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Director of the George Weiss Center for International Financial Research at Wharton. He holds a BA from Yale University, a B Phil from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a PhD from MIT. Marston has written or co-edited four previous books on finance, including his award-winning International Financial Integration (Cambridge, 1995).
Marston has taught asset allocation in the CIMA investment management certificate program at Wharton since the program was founded in 1988. He has also given investment presentations throughout this country as well as in more than a dozen countries in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Since 1999, he has directed the Private Wealth Management Program at Wharton, a program for ultra-high net worth investors. He also serves as an advisor to several family offices and investment companies.
