Philip Maymin is co-head of global asset allocation and a portfolio manager at Janus Henderson Investors. He is also the endowed Schramm chair of analytics and the MSAIBA program director at Fairfield Dolan, and a Forbes contributor on AI and finance.
He is an advisor to AI and Faith, and has been an Insight Partner with Essentia Analytics, an advisor to Athletes Unlimited, an affiliate of the Langer Mindfulness Institute, and an analytics consultant with several NBA teams. He was also the founding managing editor of Algorithmic Finance , the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Sports Analytics , and the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Sports Betting .
He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago (dissertation chair: Richard H. Thaler), 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 began his career as a strategist at Long-Term Capital Management. He has also been a portfolio manager at 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, a professor of finance and risk engineering at NYU, a professor of analytics and finance at the University of Bridgeport, and an award-winning journalist and columnist.
He was a finalist for the 2010 Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism. He was awarded a Wolfram Innovator Award in 2015. He won the Wolfram Live Coding Challenge in 2016 and second place in 2018, and he won the Wolfram One-Liner Competition in 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019. He was named one of the Top 50 Data and Analytics Professionals in the US and Canada by Corinium in 2018. He won both the Grand Prize for Best Research Paper (2018) and the Hackathon (2020) at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
His popular writings have been published in dozens of media outlets ranging from Bloomberg to 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, Wall Street Journal, 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 Portfolio Management, Journal of Wealth Management, Journal of Applied Finance, and Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, among others, and his textbook Financial Hacking was published by World Scientific in 2012.