David Darst

David Martin Darst, CFA, is an American financier, educator, and author. He is a Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and serves as Vice Chairman of the MSSB Global Investment Committee. He has responsibility for Asset Allocation and Investment Strategy, and was the founding President of the Morgan Stanley Investment Group.

Early life

Darst was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the third of five sons born to Guy Bewley Darst and Susan Mary McGinnis Darst. Darst attended Father Ryan High School in Nashville, TN and earned a high school diploma from Phillips Exeter Academy, a BA degree in Economics from Yale University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Lecturing and professional associations

Darst has lectured at Wharton, Columbia University, INSEAD, and New York University business schools, and for nine years, Darst served as a visiting faculty member at Yale College, Yale School of Management, and Harvard Business School. He is a CFA Charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the CFA Institute. On November 3, 2011 at the Metropolitan Club in New York, Darst was inducted by Quinnipiac University into their Business Leaders Hall of Fame.

Media appearances and publications

Darst has been profiled and/or quoted by The New York Times,^[1][2][3][4] The Wall Street Journal,^[5] The Financial Times,^[6] Barron's,^[7][8] Worth Magazine,^[9] and The Yale Economic Review.^[10] Darst has also been an occasional contributor of articles to Forbes.com.^[11]

Books

• The Complete Bond Book (McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-017390-7)
• The Handbook of the Bond and Money Markets (McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-015401-5)
• The Art of Asset Allocation (McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-137950-9)
• The Art of Asset Allocation, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-0159294-6)
• Mastering the Art of Asset Allocation (McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-146334-8)
• Benjamin Graham on Investing (McGraw-Hill ISBN 978-0-07-162142-7)
• The Little Book that Saves Your Assets (John Wiley ISBN 13 978-0-470-25004-4; a bestseller in the New York Times and Business Week weekly rankings)
• Voyager 3: Fifty-four Phases of Feeling (Sea Point Press ISBN 978-0-9830622-2-6)

His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German, Korean, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, and Vietnamese.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ "Time for Optimism? Pessimism? Pick Your Gauge", by Jonathan Fuerbringer, The New York Times, March 21, 2004
2. ^ "Oops, It May Be Time to Rebalance that Portfolio", by J. Alex Tarquinio, The New York Times, May 6, 2007
3. ^ "Exotic Bets to Hedge a Portfolio", by J. Alex Tarquinio, The New York Times, October 29, 2009
4. ^ "Foreign Bonds Provide Buffer if Dollar Declines", by J. Alex Tarquinio, The New York Times, October 29, 2009
5. ^ "Into the Breach", by Glenn Ruffenach, The Wall Street Journal, December 12, 2005
6. ^ "Learn to Connect the Dots in 2005", by David Wells, Financial Times, January 11, 2005
7. ^ "Safety First", by Karen Hube, Barron's, September 15, 2008
8. ^ "Barron's Winner's Circle: Multiyear Rally is Forecast", by Lawrence C. Strauss, Barron's, September 28, 2009
9. ^ "The Outlook for Climate Change Investment", by Eileen P. Gunn, Worth August 2007
10. ^ "Interview with David Darst", by Ben Gifford, Yale Economic Review Winter/Spring 2011
11. ^ "U.S. Investors Looking Abroad Should Look to Canada", Forbes.com: March 1, 2010

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