Instructor

Jack Ablin, CFA

Practical Experience:

Jack Ablin is Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer with Harris Private Bank. He is responsible for establishing investment policy and strategy within the Personal Investment Management Group of Harris Private Bank. Mr. Ablin also chairs the Harris Private Bank Asset Allocation Committee, which determines the strategy for investment portfolios for Harris Private Bank. Mr. Ablin joined Harris in 2001 and has more than 25 years of experience in money management.

Mr. Ablin earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College, New York, where he graduated with honors with an AB in Mathematics and Computer Science. Mr. Ablin received an MBA with honors and graduated cum laude from Boston University, Massachusetts, and is a member of the Beta Kappa Sigma Honors Society. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is a member of the CFA Society of Chicago and a CFA Institute Charter holder.

Author of Reading Minds and Markets: Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Returns in a Volatile Global Marketplace, published in July 2009 by F.T. Press

Written on a variety of topics, including investor psychology and financial markets outlook

Frequent contributor to CNBC, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s

Served as a Professor of Finance at Boston University, Graduate School of Management

Spent five years as a Money and Markets correspondent for WTLV, the NBC affiliate in Jacksonville, Florida

Named one of the top 100 Wealth Advisors in North

Education:

Vassar College

Boston University

Licenses:

CFA charterholder

Publication(s):

Reading Minds and Markets: Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Returns in a Volatile Global Marketplace

Membership(s):

CFA Society of Chicago

Beta Kappa Sigma Honors Society