In 1951, after teaching economics at Williams College
and a five-year stint in commercial banking, Peter became Chief Executive
of a nationally–known investment counsel firm, where he personally managed
billions of dollars of individual and institutional portfolios. The assets
under management at the firm had grown more than tenfold by the time he
resigned in 1973 to launch Peter L. Bernstein, Inc.
Peter was the first Editor of The Journal of Portfolio Management in 1974,
a widely-read scholarly journal for investment managers and academics in
the field of finance and investments. He is now Consulting Editor of the
Journal.
He served for many years on the Visiting Committee to the Economics
Department at Harvard University, as a Trustee and member of the Finance
Committee of the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF), and as a Trustee
of the Investment Management Workshop sponsored by the Association for
Investment Management & Research’(AIMR).
He is the author of nine books in economics and finance plus countless
articles in professional journals such as The Harvard Business Review and
the Financial Analysts Journal, and in the popular press, including The
New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Worth Magazine, and Bloomberg
publications. He has contributed to collections of articles published by
Perseus and FT Mastering, among others
He lectures widely throughout the United States and abroad on risk
management, asset allocation, portfolio strategy, and market history.
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