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Robert (Bob) Fernholz (born Erhard Robert Fernholz) is a financial researcher and a mathematician specializing on mathematics of finance. He founded INTECH in 1987 where he is currently Chairman of the Investment Committee after being its chief investment officer for over 25 years. He is also the President of Asset Allocation Strategies, a company that he founded in 2012.

Early life and education
Bob Fernholz was born in Princeton, New Jersey, on March 27, 1941, the only son or Erhard Fernholz and Mary Briganti. His father Erhard Fernholz was a distinguished German Chemist who immigrated to the US in 1936 to join the faculty of the Chemist Department at Princeton University. Bob's mother Mary Briganti Fernholz, was the daughter of Italian Immigrants who came to the US in the early 1900s from Grassano (Basilicata). She held an Ms degree in Economics from Smith College and worked at Princeton University as a Research assistant in the Economics Department.

Bob Fernholz grew up in Princeton, NJ and attended Princeton Country Day School to continue high school at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, graduating in 1958 with honors. As an undergraduate at Princeton University he majored in mathematics under the direction of William Feller and received his BA degree magna cum laude in 1962. He continued with graduate studies in Mathematics at Columbia University where he earned his PhD in 1967, with a thesis on Several Complex Variables under the direction of Lipman Bers.

Career
After joining the Mathematics department at the University of Washington in Seattle as an Assistant Professor, he continued his academic career by teaching at the University of La Plata and the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, followed by few years at Hunter College of the CUNY and one year at Princeton University. During these years his interests changed from pure to applied mathematics, in particular, probability, statistics and applications. After several years of independent research in this new direction, he published the seminal paper Stochastic Portfolio Theory and Market equilibrium in 1982. This paper was the basis for his investment ideas that culminated in the creation of INTECH in 1987.

Bob Fernholz is the author of numerous research articles both in pure and applied mathematics. His most famous publication is the research monograph Stochastic Portfolio Theory,   …..

Personal Life
Bob Fernholz met Luisa Turrin in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was teaching at the University of Buenos Aires and where she was a graduate student of mathematics. They married in 1970 in Pisa, Italy and have two sons, Daniel and Ricardo.