JACK CLARK FRANCIS, PhD

JACK is a nickname (not a legal name).  CLARK is the first name (or given name). There is no middle name.  FRANCIS is the last name (or family name, or surname).

Check out Excel spreadsheets to compute and graph Markowitz  Efficient Frontiers with riskless and risky assets. Click on the links below:

 

 2 Risky Assets and 1 Riskless Asset.

 3 Risky Assets and 1 Riskless Asset.

 4 Risky Assets and 1 Riskless Asset.

 5 Risky Assets and 1 Riskless Asset.

 5 Risky Assets and 1 Riskless Asset with Real Return Data.

 

 

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EDUCATION

Ph.D                University of Washington, Seattle            Finance                

M.B.A.            Indiana University, Bloomington              Finance          

B.S.                 Indiana University, Bloomington              Marketing        

 

 

FULL-TIME ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Bernard M. Baruch College                 Full Professor                        Finance

Wharton School, University of Pa.       Assistant Professor                Finance           

University of Washington, Seattle         Instructor                              Finance           

U.S. Army Adjutant General School    Instructor                              Computer Topics

 

 

NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Federal Reserve Bank, Two years                                                    Economist      

U.S. Army, Two years of active duty                                                Lieutenant           

Businesses, courts, governments, and organizations                           Consultant  

 

 

BOOKS IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

 

INVESTMENTS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, by J.C. Francis & Professor Roger Ibbotson (Yale University), Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 2002, 890 pages, ISBN: 0-13-890740-4.

 

INVESTMENTS, by J.C. Francis & Professor Richard Taylor, Ph.D., C.F.A., published by Schaum's (a division of McGraw-Hill Book Company) 1992, second edition 2000. 

 

HANDBOOK OF EQUITY DERIVATIVES, co-edited by J.C. Francis, Gregg Whittaker, Ph.D., Managing Director at Chase Bank, and William Toy, Ph.D., V-P at Goldman Sachs, first edition published by Irwin Professional Publishing in 1995, second edition published by John Wiley & Sons Publishing Company, 1999. 

 

HANDBOOK OF CREDIT DERIVATIVES, co-edited by J.C. Francis, Joyce A. Frost, V-P at Chase, and Gregg Whittaker, Ph.D., Managing Director at Chase, McGraw-Hill/Irwin Professional Publishing, 1999.

 

HANDBOOK OF INTEREST RATE RISK MANAGEMENT, co-edited by J.C. Francis & Professor Avner Wolf, Irwin Professional Publishing, Burr Ridge, Illinois, 1994.

 

INVESTMENTS ANALYSIS SOFTWARE, by J.C. Francis, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1994.

 

MANAGEMENT OF INVESTMENTS, by J. C. Francis, McGraw-Hill Book Co., first edition 1983, second edition 1988, third edition 1993.

 

INVESTMENTS: ANALYSIS & MANAGEMENT, by J. C. Francis, McGraw-Hill Book Company, first edition 1972, second edition 1976, third edition 1980, fourth edition 1986, fifth edition 1991. 

 

INVESTMENTS ANALYSIS & MANAGEMENT, by J. C. Francis and Eric Kirzner, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, Canada, 1988.

 

PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS, by J. C. Francis and S. H. Archer, Prentice-Hall Foundations of Finance Series, first edition 1971, second edition 1979, third edition by Professors Gordon Alexander & J.C. Francis in 1986.

 

READINGS IN INVESTMENTS, edited by J. C. Francis, Cheng-Few Lee, and Donald E. Farrar, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1980.