Kenneth N. Levy

Kenneth N. Levy is co-founder and co-chief investment officer at Jacobs Levy Equity Management. Jacobs Levy has managed quantitative equity strategies for sophisticated institutional investors for over 35 years. Levy has an M.B.A. and an M.A. in business economics from the Wharton School, and completed all requirements short of the dissertation for a Ph.D. at Wharton. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute. His research has received several awards from financial journals, including Graham and Dodd Awards from the Financial Analysts Journal. “Disentangling Equity Return Regularities: New Insights and Investment Opportunities” (FAJ 1988) was selected to be among the 25 most influential articles in the Financial Analysts Journal 80th Anniversary Editors’ Collection. He is on the Advisory Board of the Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research at the Wharton School.

Levy is co-author with Bruce Jacobs of Equity Management: Quantitative Analysis for Stock Selection and Equity Management: The Art and Science of Modern Quantitative Investing, 2nd ed., and co-editor with Bruce Jacobs of Market Neutral Strategies. He is also co-editor of The Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards: Five Years of Award-Winning Articles from The Journal of Portfolio Management, Volumes One through Five, and was a featured contributor to How I Became a Quant: Insights from 25 of Wall Street’s Elite.