Panelists: Value Investing

Andrew Weiss
President and Chief Investment Officer
Weiss Asset Management

Andrew Weiss graduated from Williams College and received his Ph.D. in Economics (with distinction) from Stanford University. In 1989 he was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He has held academic appointments at Columbia University, New York University, and Boston University. Dr. Weiss is Professor Emeritus in Economics at Boston University. In addition, Dr. Weiss was a Research Economist in the Mathematics Center at Bell Laboratories. He has lectured at numerous major universities in the United States and in foreign countries, and he has also served as a consultant to the World Bank and National Research Council (NSF).

Dr. Weiss’s research has covered a wide range of topics including credit markets, development economics, economics of information and behavioral economic theory. He has published over 45 articles in leading economics journals including The American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Development Economics. His paper “Credit Rationing in Markets with Imperfect Information” (with Joseph Stiglitz) is the 12th most highly cited paper in economics.

Dr. Weiss began investing when he was an undergraduate at Williams College. Prior to 1991 he managed friends’ and family accounts. He has served as portfolio manager for Brookdale Equity Partners (BEP) from 1991-1994, Brookdale International Partners (BIP) from 1994 to present, and Brookdale Global Opportunity Fund (BGO) from 2000 to present. Dr. Weiss founded Weiss Asset Management in 2002 and currently serves as President and Chief Investment Officer.

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