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Jeremy Siegel, currently the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has written and lectured extensively about the economy and financial markets.
He has appeared frequently on CNN, CNBC, NPR, and others networks. He is a regular columnist for Kiplinger's and has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Financial Times, and other national and international news media.
Siegel is the author of two books, "Stocks for the Long Run" -- named by James Glassman of the Washington Post as one of the 10-best investment books of all time -- and "The Future for Investors." He taught for four years at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago before joining the Wharton faculty in 1976. He served for 15 years as head of economics training at JP Morgan, since 1988 as academic director of the U.S. Securities Institute, and is currently Senior Investment Strategy Advisor to Wisdom Tree Investments.
In May 2005, Siegel was presented the 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 and to raise it to higher standards of accomplishment." Other awards include the Peter Bernstein and Frank Fabozzi Award for the best article published in The Journal of Portfolio Management in 2000.
Siegel graduated from Columbia University in 1967, received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, and spent one year as a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University.
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