Eugene Fama Biography

Researcher and prolific author, Eugene F. Fama, has published more than 100 articles in academic journals and written two books. Fama is among the most cited researchers in America. Best known as the father of modern finance, his research focuses on the relationship between risk and return and implications for portfolio management. He is the joint recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Science with Robert J. Shiller of Yale University and Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago. In both the investment and economics community, Fama’s financial research is recognized and he’s also identified in research on markets especially the efficient market hypothesis. Through his research work, he has transformed the way finance is viewed and conducted in the field of investment management. With many honors and awards to his name, he was awarded by the CME Center for Innovation as the 2007 recipient of the Fred Arditti Innovation Award.During the announcement of the award, Chairman of CME's Competitive Markets Advisory Council and Nobel Prize-winning economist known as Myron S. scholes said, “Eugene Fama has had pathbreaking insights into the functioning of markets, asset pricing theory, and corporate finance that have benefited market participants worldwide. He has written extensively on the efficiency of markets, setting the backdrop for the transfer of risks through futures contracts such as those traded on the CME. His innovative research has resulted in his participation in the development of many new finance products and in the development of new futures contracts for hedging risks.” For his research in Finance, Fama won three major prizes namely the Onassis Prize in Finance, 2009; the Morgan Stanley American Finance Association Award for Excellence in Finance, 2007; and the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, 2005. He received other awards including the 2006 Nicholas Molodovsky Award from the CFA Institute recognizing his work in portfolio theory and asset pricing and the 1982 Chaire Francqui (Belgian National Science Prize). The winner of the 1992 Smith Breeden Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Finance was Fama’s Paper titled The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns which was written with Kenneth R. French. And for the best paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the areas of capital markets and asset pricing, Fama’s paper, Market Efficiency Long-Term Returns and Behavioral Finance won the 1998 Fama-DFA Prize. In 2001, he was the first elected fellow of the American Finance Association also he’s also a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as an advisory editor of the Journal of Financial Economics. Fama is a Consultant and Director to an investment advising firm with more than $251 billion under management known as Dimensional Fund Advisors, Inc. Over 40 years ago, Fama founded the Center for Research in Security Prices at Chicago Booth to create the finest tools for analyzing, measuring and tracking securities data; and acts as the Chairman. In 1960, he earned a bachelor's degree from Tufts University and in 1964, he received an MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 1963, he joined the Chicago Booth faculty. Fans was also awarded doctor of science honoris causa from Tufts University, doctor of law degree from the University of Rochester, a doctor honoris causa from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and doctor of law degree from DePaul University. Fama is a member of Malden Catholic High School's athletic hall of fame, a father of four and a grandfather of ten. He is also a fading tennis player, a passionate golfer, windsurfer and an opera buff.

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