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William T Ziemba

Chapter 1 in The Adventures of a Modern Renaissance Academic in Investing and Gambling, 2017, pp 1-5 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: There is no way my travels and experiences can begin to match Leonardo’s but at least I set a high goal. In this book, I trace a career from a small town in Massachusetts to the big time as a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s which then was the greatest university in the world and then on to a life mostly in British Columbia with many visits across the world to do research, visit universities, attend conferences, consult and write books and work on some very interesting financial market research with some major institutions and very wealthy investors. Along the way, I moved across fields starting with chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst where I spent four delightful but difficult years from 1959–1963. Then the question was where to go to graduate school — I actually applied in five fields: chemical engineering, metallurgy (inspired by a summer doing work at Penn State University), patent attorney, one I forgot and an MBA in business…

Keywords: Financial History; Risk Management; Investment Strategies; Mean Reversion; Risk Arbitrage; Management of Assets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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