PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

"The AFA was planned at a meeting in December 1939 in Philadelphia. The Journal of Finance was first published in August 1946 when dues were $3 a year. Association membership has grown steadily over time. Today the AFA has over 8,000 members and dues are $40 a year."

Official Website:
http://www.afajof.org/

Location:
Berkeley, CA

Founding Date:
Dec-1939

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Sanford J. Grossman	Business	21-Jul-1953		CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies
Joseph A. Grundfest	Attorney	8-Sep-1951		Stanford law professor
Donald P. Jacobs	Economist	22-Jun-1927		Dean of the Kellogg School, 1975-2001
Neil H. Jacoby	Economist	19-Sep-1909	31-May-1979	Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55
Deborah J. Lucas	Educator	c. 1958		Finance Professor at Northwestern
Burton Malkiel	Economist	28-Aug-1932		A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Robert C. Merton	Economist	31-Jul-1944		Risk management and options
Merton H. Miller	Economist	16-May-1923	3-Jun-2000	Modigliani-Miller theorem
Franco Modigliani	Economist	18-Jun-1918	25-Sep-2003	Life-cycle theory
George G. C. Parker	Educator	c. 1939		Finance Professor Emeritus, Stanford
Charles Plosser	Economist	19-Sep-1948		President and CEO, Philadelphia Fed
Bill Poole	Economist	19-Jun-1937		President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Stephen A. Ross	Economist	c. 1943		Professor of Financial Economics, MIT
Raymond J. Saulnier	Economist	20-Sep-1908	30-Apr-2009	Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-61
Myron S. Scholes	Economist	1-Jul-1941		Black-Scholes options pricing model
William F. Sharpe	Economist	16-Jun-1934		Capital asset pricing model
James Van Horne	Educator	c. 1935		Economics Professor, Stanford

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