CHARLES D. ELLIS served twenty-eight years as managing partner of Greenwich Associates. He has taught courses in investment management at Harvard Business School and the Yale School of Management; served as trustee on the investment committees of Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale University, and the Whitehead Institute; and as chairman of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR). He is a director of The Vanguard Group.
JAMES R. VERTIN was the founding manager and chief investment officer of Wells Fargo Investment Advisors, which grew into Barclays Global Investors, one of the world's largest investment firms. He has long served as a leader in the investment profession's organization. Jim and Charley have enjoyed over thirty years of friendship and have produced three prior books together, including the companion volume, Wall Street People: True Stories of Today's Masters and Moguls, also published by Wiley.