Biographical
Sketch of Keith Christopher Brown
Keith Christopher
Brown currently holds the positions of University Distinguished Teaching
Professor and Fayez Sarofim Fellow in the Department of Finance at the McCombs
School of Business,
University
of Texas at
Austin. He
received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Financial Economics from the Krannert Graduate
School of Management at Purdue University.
Since leaving school in 1981, he has specialized in teaching Investment
Management, Portfolio Management and Security Analysis, Capital Markets, and
Derivatives courses at the BBA and MBA levels and has received eighteen awards
for teaching innovation and excellence.
In 2006, he was elected to the University’s prestigious
Academy
of Distinguished Teachers.
Keith's publications have appeared in such journals as
Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial
Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative
Analysis, Review of Economics and Statistics, Financial Management, Journal of
Financial Markets, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management,
Journal of Investment Management, Journal of Fixed Income, Journal of Applied
Corporate Finance, and Advances in Futures and Options Research.
He received a Graham and Dodd Award from the Financial Analysts
Federation as a co-author of one of the best articles published by
Financial Analysts Journal in 1990 and
a Smith-Breeden Prize from the Journal of
Finance in 1996. Keith is also a
co-author of two textbooks, Interest Rate
and Currency Swaps: A Tutorial (with Donald J. Smith) and
Investment Analysis and Portfolio
Management, 10e (with Frank K. Reilly).
Keith is the co-founder and Senior Partner of Fulcrum Financial Group, a
portfolio management, business valuation, and investment advisory firm located
in Austin, Texas and Las Vegas, Nevada.
For more than eleven years, he has served as President and Chief Executive
Officer of The MBA Investment Fund, LLC, a private capital appreciation fund
managed by students at the University of Texas and also was the Director of the
Department’s Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Center for Private Equity Finance.
From May 1987 to August 1988 Keith was based in New York as a Senior Consultant to the
Corporate Professional Development Department at Manufacturers Hanover Trust
Company. He has also lectured extensively
in the global Executive Development programs for companies such as Fidelity
Investments, Commonfund Institute, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Merrill Lynch, Lehman
Brothers, Chase Securities, Union Bank of Switzerland, Chemical Bank, Chase Bank
of Texas, USAA Investment Management, Security Commission of Malaysia, The
Beacon Group, Motorola, Halliburton, Association for Investment Management and
Research, and spent thirteen months as a senior planner with a San Diego,
California-based financial planning firm.
In August of 1988, Keith received his charter from the CFA Institute.
He currently serves as Advisor to the Board of Trustees of Teacher
Retirement System of Texas and the Board of Directors of University of Texas
Investment Management Company and as Associate Editor for Journal of
Investment Management, Journal of Behavioral Finance and
International Journal of Portfolio
Analysis & Management. For five years he held the position of Research
Director for the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute.
Please click here for a recent copy of Keith's curriculum vitae (PDF Document).
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