Office: 323 RBC Phone: 610-758-4533 Fax: 610-758-6429 Email: dhm2@lehigh.edu Investments and Portfolio Management (GBUS 420) Investments (FIN 323) Security Analysis (FIN 324) Real Estate (FIN 336)

Perella Department of Finance:  Professor of Practice

Education
-  Wesleyan University, B.A.
-  New York University, M.B.A.
-  University of Washington, Ph.D. 

David Hobson Myers has degrees in Finance and Business Economics, Finance and International Business, and Government.  He has published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Operations Research, and Interfaces. Professor Myers has been at Lehigh University since 2000.

Before joining academia, Professor Myers worked in the investment community for over ten years for Frank Russell Company as a Senior Research Analyst, for InterSec Research as the Chief Representative of their Tokyo office, and in New York and Tokyo for Daiwa Securities and its investment management subsidiary, Daiwa International Capital Management.

Professor Myers teaches the undergraduate and graduate investments courses.  

Research Interests

• Persistence in Pension Account Returns: The Impact of Style " Pension Plan Asset Flows and Alternate Performance Measures
• Grade Portfolios: A Lesson in Asset Allocation
• Public Employee Defined Benefit Pension Systems: Plan Characteristics and Investment Strategies
• The Dangerous Design Defects of State and Local Pension Plans: Some Implications for Public Policy 

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