Neil Pearson

Neil D. Pearson joined Rutter Associates as an Affiliate in 2006.  Dr. Pearson is the Harry A. Brandt Distinguished Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  In the past he has been on the faculty of the University of Rochester, served as Visiting Academic Fellow at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and been a Visiting Professor at MIT and Tsinghua University.  He teaches courses about the valuation of derivative financial instruments and the measurement of financial risks and conducts research on various issues in financial markets, including the valuation of derivative financial instruments. In addition to publishing papers in a number of academic journals, Dr. Pearson is the author of Risk Budgeting: Portfolio Problem Solving Using Value at Risk (Wiley).  He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Risk, and Economics Bulletin.  Dr. Pearson has extensive consulting experience on the measurement and management of market and credit risk and on the valuation of derivative financial instruments.  He received his A.B. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.