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Wealth Intelligence

Awards & Recognition

★Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1997) - shared with Robert C. Merton for new method to determine value of derivatives

★Honorary doctorate degrees from University of Paris-Dauphine (1989), McMaster University (1990), and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1998)

Notable Facts

→Co-creator of the Black-Scholes options pricing model that revolutionized finance

→Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business

→Chief Investment Strategist at Janus Henderson Investors

→Former principal at Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund that collapsed in 1998

→Managing Director at Salomon Brothers

→Over 82,000 citations on Google Scholar

→One of six Stanford GSB professors to receive Nobel Prize

→Born in Timmins, Ontario, Canada in 1941

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