Presenter

Kenneth French

Dimensional Fund Advisors, Inc.

Kenneth R. French is the Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is an expert on the behavior of security prices and investment strategies. He and co-author Eugene F. Fama are well known for their research into the value effect and the three-factor model, including articles such as “The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns” and “Common Risk Factors in the Returns on Stocks and Bonds.” His recent research focuses on tests of asset pricing, the tradeoff between risk and return in domestic and international financial markets, and the relation between capital structure and firm value. As a Dimensional director and consultant, Professor French is head of investment policy for Dimensional Fund Advisors, is chairman of the Investment Policy Committee, and sits on the firm’s board of directors. Along with Professor Fama, he designed Dimensional’s value and tax-managed strategies. He is a regular speaker at Dimensional conferences and seminars and a contributor to the Research group. Professor French is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an advisory editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, a former associate editor of the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies, and a past director of the American Finance Association. Prior to joining Dartmouth College, Professor French was the NTU Professor of Finance at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and managing director of the International Center for Finance at Yale University School of Management. Before receiving his Ph.D. in finance from the University of Rochester in 1983, Professor French earned an M.S. and an MBA from the University of Rochester and a B.S. from Lehigh University. In addition to teaching and doing research, he enjoys bicycling, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, swimming, in-line skating, and embarrassing his three children.  

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