Executive Vice-President & Macro-economist
Lew Spellman. PhD is a Professor Emeritus at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a professor of financial markets and institutions from 1971 to his retirement in 2019. Professor Spellman holds degrees of BBA and MBA from the University of Michigan, and MA and PhD in economics from Stanford University.
Professor Spellman’s academic courses consist of analyzing current economic and monetary policy developments as they relate to financial market pricing. His academic articles have appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financialand Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Money Credit and Banking and the Journal of Banking and Finance, among others. He holds several U.S. patents relating to inflation adjusting financial instruments, including the U.S Treasury’s inflation adjusting bond, known as the Treasury TIPS.
Professor Spellman’s prior experience outside of academia has included serving as Assistant to the Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, Economist with the Federal Reserve Board, and Chairman of Real Rate Financial. He lives in Austin and enjoys traveling worldwide.
lew@BeckCapitalManagement.com
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