Herbert Phillips
Office: Alter Hall 431
Voice: 215.204.8141
E-mail: hep@temple.edu
Dr. Herbert E. Phillips is Professor of Finance at Temple University
and associate editor of The International Review of Financial Analysis.
Prior to his appointment at Temple University, he was a member of the
faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Phillips
earned a BA at Western Washington State University and Ph.D. at the
University of Washington. He was previously a SAGE computer systems
analyst at System Development Corporation. Dr. Phillips is a frequent
contributor to the finance literature, especially in the area of normative
portfolio theory. He is co-author of a textbook on investments, but
many of his writings are extremely critical of current investment theories
and the general equilibrium assumptions upon which they which they
are based. His recent monograph, Forty Years of Normative Portfolio
Theory: Issues, Controversies, and Misconceptions, is a review
and a critique of many now standard investment theories and approaches.