PAMELA PETERSON DRAKE, PHD, CFA, is the J. Gray Ferguson Professor of Finance and Head of the Department of Finance and Business Law in the College of Business at James Madison University. Prior to joining James Madison, she was an associate dean and professor of finance at Florida Atlantic University and, previous to that, a professor at Florida State University. She has published articles in numerous journals and collaborated with Frank Fabozzi on the previous edition of this book as well as Foundations and Applications of the Time Value of Money, Capital Budgeting, and Financial Management and Analysis, all published by Wiley. She received a BS in accountancy from Miami University and her PhD in finance from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. FRANK J. FABOZZI, PHD, CFA, CPA, is Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School and a member of the EDHEC-Risk Institute. Prior to joining EDHEC in August 2011, he held various professorial positions in finance at Yale University's School of Management from 1994 to 2011 and was a visiting professor of finance and accounting at MIT's Sloan School of Management from 1986 to 1992. He is also editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management.