Will Kinlaw is Senior Managing Director and Head of Research at State Street Global Markets, where his team provides trade ideas and investment insights to thousands of investment managers, pension funds, and sovereign wealth fund clients around the world. In addition to Asset Allocation: From Theory to Practice and Beyond, Will has published research papers on a wide range of topics and has been awarded the 2013 Peter L. Bernstein Award as well as the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2021 Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Outstanding Article Awards for research on liquidity, risk management, performance measurement, and diversification. His article on the role of sector exposures in describing the private equity premium won "Honorable Mention" for the 2016 Peter L. Bernstein Award. Will serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Journal of Alternative Investments. He holds an M.S. in finance from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University, as well as a CFA designation.
Mark Kritzman is a Founding Partner and CEO of Windham Capital Management, LLC and the Chairman of Windham's investment committee. He is also a Founding Partner of State Street Associates, and he teachers a graduate finance course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Protego Trust Company, the Advisory Board of the MIT Sloan Finance Group, the Board of Governors of St. John's University, and serves on the editorial boards of numerous finance and investment journals. He has written more than 100 articles for peer-reviewed journals and is the author of seven books in addition to Asset Allocation: From Theory to Practice and Beyond. Mark won Graham and Dodd Scroll Awards in 1993, 2002, and 2010, the Research Prize from the Institute for Quantitative Investment Research in 1997, the Bernstein-Fabozzi/Jacobs-Levy Award ten times, the Roger F. Murray Prize from the Q-Group in 2012, and the Peter L. Berinstein Award in 2013 for Best Paper in an Institutional Investor Journal. In 2004, Mark was elected a Batten Fellow at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. Mark Holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from St. John's University, and a Master of Business Administration with distinction from New York University.
David Turkington is Senior Managing Director and Head of State Street Associates, State Street Global Markets' decades-long partnership with renowned academics that produces innovative research on markets and investment strategy. David is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, has published more than 40 research articles in a range of journals, and currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Alternative Investments. In addition to Asset Allocation: From Theory to Practice and Beyond, he is also a co-author of Prediction Revisited: The Importance of Observation. His published research has received the the 2010 Graham and Dodd Scroll Award, five Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Outstanding Article Awards, the 2013 Peter L. Bernstein Award for Best Paper in an Institutional Investor journal, and the 2021 Roger F. Murray First Prize for outstanding presentation at the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q Group) seminars. David graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a B.A. in mathematics and quantitative economics.