Ed Elton

Edwin J. Elton IV (born 5 October 1939) is a former Nomura Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business and academic director of the Stern Doctoral Program.

Biography Elton has served as a portfolio theory and investment management consultant for major financial institutions in Asia, Europe, and the United States. He has been a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Management in Berlin and a visiting scholar at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) in Brussels and at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

He received the Graham Dodd Award for research in investments and was named Distinguished Scholar by the Eastern Finance Association. He is a former president of the American Finance Association. is the standard textbook used in most leading graduate schools of business.