Portfolio Selection and Asset Pricing: Models of Financial Economics and Their Applications in Investing

Jamil Baz is a managing director at PIMCO. Prior to that, he was a senior managing director and chief investment strategist of the Man Group. Previously, he was a managing director in macro proprietary trading at Goldman Sachs in London and global chief investment strategist at Deutsche Bank. Earlier in his career he co-ran European fixed income research at Lehman Brothers and worked in derivatives and liability management at the World Bank. He holds an AM and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, an SM degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a master's degree from the London School of Economics.  He has taught mathematical finance at Oxford University for 20 years. Helen Guo is a senior vice president at PIMCO. She specializes in research and modeling to provide customized solutions to clients on asset allocation and risk management. She holds a Ph.D. in economics and a master's degree in statistics from Stanford University. Erol Hakanoglu is a senior advisor at PIMCO. He is managing partner of Hakanoglu Quantitative Strategies LLC, an analytic advisory firm he founded. Previously, he was a managing director and global head of enterprise risk management at Barclays and earlier with Lehman Brothers, and prior to this he was a managing director and global head of capital market strategies at Goldman Sachs. He is a member of the steering committee of the financial engineering program of the University of California Berkeley’s Haas Business School and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Columbia, and Berkeley. Dr. Hakanoglu holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from Columbia University.