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Aaron C. Brown (born November 27, 1956) is an American Finance
Finance

The field of finance refers to the concepts of time, money and risk and how they are interrelated. Banks are the main facilitators of funding through the provision of credit, although private equity, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other organizations have become important....
 Professor
Professor

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, author
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 and quant
Quantitative analyst

A quantitative analyst is a person who works in finance using numerical or quantitative techniques. Similar work is done in most other modern industries, but the work is not called quantitative analysis....
. He wrote The Poker Face of Wall Street and A World of Chance (with Reuven
Reuven Brenner

Reuven Brenner is an economics professor, holding the REPAP Chair of Economics at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management.Over the last twenty years he has consulted for companies including Bank of America, Knowledge Universe, Bell Canada....
 and Gabrielle Brenner). He is a regular columnist for Wilmott Magazine
Wilmott Magazine

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.

He is best-known for the idea that the economics of modern global derivatives evolved from gambling games rather than older financial institutions, and that gambling remains at the core of economic life.

n Brown was born in Seattle, Washington and graduated from Harvard University (S.B.






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Aaron C. Brown (born November 27, 1956) is an American Finance
Finance

The field of finance refers to the concepts of time, money and risk and how they are interrelated. Banks are the main facilitators of funding through the provision of credit, although private equity, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other organizations have become important....
 Professor
Professor

The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
, author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 and quant
Quantitative analyst

A quantitative analyst is a person who works in finance using numerical or quantitative techniques. Similar work is done in most other modern industries, but the work is not called quantitative analysis....
. He wrote The Poker Face of Wall Street and A World of Chance (with Reuven
Reuven Brenner

Reuven Brenner is an economics professor, holding the REPAP Chair of Economics at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management.Over the last twenty years he has consulted for companies including Bank of America, Knowledge Universe, Bell Canada....
 and Gabrielle Brenner). He is a regular columnist for Wilmott Magazine
Wilmott Magazine

Wilmott Magazine is a mathematical finance and risk management magazine....
.

He is best-known for the idea that the economics of modern global derivatives evolved from gambling games rather than older financial institutions, and that gambling remains at the core of economic life.

Biography

Aaron Brown was born in Seattle, Washington and graduated from Harvard University (S.B. Applied Mathematics, 1978) and the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago (MBA Finance and Statistics, 1982). Both in college and graduate school he was a serious semi-professional poker player and did active financial trading for his own account.

In 1982 he moved to New York and held a variety of financial jobs including portfolio manager
Investment management

References...
 (Prudential Financial
Prudential Financial

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), trader
Trader (finance)

In finance, a trader is someone who buys and sells financial instruments such as stock, bond s and derivative .Traders are either professionals working in a financial institution or a corporation, or individual investors, or day traders....
 and head of Mortgage Securities
Mortgage-backed security

A mortgage-backed security is an asset-backed security whose cash flows are backed by the principal and interest payments of a set of mortgage loans....
 (Lepercq, de Neuflize), risk manager
Risk management

Risk management is activity directed towards the assessing, mitigating and monitoring of risks. In some cases the acceptable risk may be near zero....
 (JPMorgan Chase, Rabobank
Rabobank

Rabobank is a Netherlands cooperative banking institution with offices all over the world, although primarily in the Netherlands....
, Citigroup
Citigroup

Citigroup Inc., doing business as Citi, is a major United States financial services company based in New York City. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate Travelers Group on April 7, 1998....
, Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services provider headquartered in New York City, New York, United States. It serves a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals....
 and AQR Capital Management) and finance professor (Fordham
Fordham University

'Fordham University' is a private university university in the United States, with three campuses located in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York in 1841 as St....
 and Yeshiva
Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a leading research institution, ranked 50th in the United States among national universities in 2008.....
 Universities).

In 1998 he founded and ran a shareholder rights website (www.eRaider.com) linked to a public mutual fund
Mutual fund

A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors and invests it in stocks, Bond , short-term money market instruments, and/or other security ....
 (The Allied Owners Action Fund). The fund took 5% positions in public companies while the website organized all institutional and retail shareholders in an attempt to influence corporate management.

External links

  • to The Poker Face of Wall Street by N. N. Taleb (pdf)