Michael EdesessMichael Edesess is a founding partner and the chief investment officer of Fair Advisors LLC and author of The Big Investment Lie. Kwok L. Tsui is chair professor at City University of Hong Kong and heads its Department of Systems Engineering and Engieering Management. Carol Fabbri is a managing partner at Fair Advisors LLC and coauthor of Personal Investing. A 27 - year investment industry veteran, George Peacock is a principal at Compendium Financial Investment Advisory, the founder and manager of the Purchasing Power Portfolio, the author of the Yoga of Investing blog, and the managing editor, investments for the online financial site FrankInsight.com. He entered the financial advisory business as an associate at American Express Financial Services (now Ameriprise). He also worked at the Wallace Financial Group, a regional insurance, investment, retirement, and financial planning firm, and Mullin Consulting, advising Fortune 1000 companies on niche compensation benefits for their senior executives. He returned to advising high - net - worth individuals and families when he joined the D.C. office of US Trust, which was later purchased by Bank of America. Mr. Peacock left Bank of America when the firm, like the rest of the investment industry, began relying increasingly on mathematical models whose output depended on a myriad of unknowable assumptions. At Euclid, he immediately established the Purchasing Power Portfolio, a precursor to the Simplify Wall Street approach described in this book. Mr. Peacock is the president of the Georgetown University Alumni Association and is an ex - officio member of the University's board of directors. He is also a member of the External Advisory Board of the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union, the largest student - run credit union in the country, and The Georgetown Chimes, an all - male a capella singing group. A part - time stand - up comic, he lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his four children, Dunc Read More Read Less