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About Philip Maymin
Dr. Philip Z. Maymin is Assistant Professor of Finance and Risk Engineering at NYU-Polytechnic Institute. He is also the founding managing editor of Algorithmic Finance.
He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago, a Master's in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, and a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Harvard University. He also holds a J.D. and is an attorney-at-law admitted to practice in California.
He has been a portfolio manager at Long-Term Capital Management, Ellington Management Group, and his own hedge fund, Maymin Capital Management.
He has also been a policy scholar for a free market think tank, a Justice of the Peace, a Congressional candidate, and a columnist for the Fairfield County Weekly and LewRockwell.com. He is also an award-winning journalist and the author of Yankee Wake Up, Free Your Inner Yankee, and Yankee Go Home. He was a finalist for the 2010 Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism.
His popular writings have been published in dozens of media outlets ranging from Forbes to the New York Post to American Banker to regional newspapers, and his research has been profiled in dozens more, including The New York Times, USA Today, Financial Times, Boston Globe, NPR, BBC, Guardian (UK), CNBC, Newsweek Poland, Financial Times Deutschland, and others.
His research on behavioral and algorithmic finance has appeared in Quantitative Finance, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Journal of Wealth Management, Journal of Applied Finance, and Risk and Decision Analysis, among others, and his textbook Financial Hacking is due to be released by World Scientific in 2012.
See also CV or Resume.
External Links
![]() | Academic home page at NYU-Poly. |
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![]() | State Bar of California attorney profile. Bar #272798. |
![]() | All published columns, op-eds, and research reports, primarily appearing in the Fairfield County Weekly. |
![]() | All articles published on LewRockwell.com. |
![]() | Maymin for Congress archived campaign site from the 2006 election in CT's 4th district. |
![]() | Campaign, debate, ads, and other videos on YouTube. |
![]() | Entry on Wikipedia. |
![]() | Profile on IMDB, the Internet Movie Database. |
![]() | Profile on Facebook. |
![]() | Profile on Twitter. |
| 2010 Finalist for Bastiat Prize in Online Journalism (PDF). | |
| Founding Managing Editor of Algorithmic Finance. |









