Jeremy Siegel

Company: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and WisdomTree Investments Inc.

Area of Expertise: Financial market returns, macroeconomics, monetary policy, fundamental indexation

Web Site: www.JeremySiegel.com

Books: “Stocks for the Long Run” (fifth edition, McGraw-Hill, 2013), “The Future For Investors” (Crown Business, 2005)

Topics Presented in Speeches: “What Is Ahead for the Economy and Financial Markets?”

Email: Siegel@wharton.upenn.edu

Biography:

Jeremy Siegel is the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He graduated from Columbia University in 1967 and received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. 

Siegel is the author of numerous professional articles and two books.  His bestselling book,“Stocks for the Long Run,” was named by the Washington Post and Business Week as one of the 10-best investment books of all time. His second book, "The Future for Investors," was named one of the best business books published in 2005 by Businessweek, the Financial Times, and Barron’s magazines.

Siegel has received many awards and citations for his research and excellence in teaching. In November of 2003 he was presented the Distinguished Leadership Award by the Securities Industry Association, and in May of 2005 he was presented the prestigious Nicholas Molodovsky Award by the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute to “those individuals who have made outstanding contributions of such significance as to change the direction of the profession.”  Other awards he has received include the Graham and Dodd Award for the best article published in The Financial Analysts Journal and the Peter Bernstein and Frank Fabozzi Award for the best article published in The Journal of Portfolio Management.

In 1994, Siegel received the highest teaching rating in a poll ranking business school professors conducted by Businessweek magazine, and in 2012 CNN.com and Fortune magazine named Siegel “the world’s top business school professor.” Siegel currently serves as academic director of the Securities Industry Institute and senior investment strategy adviser at WisdomTree Investments, consulting the firm on its proprietary stock indexes.