Michael R. Yogg, Ph.D., CFA worked in the investment business from 1978 until 2012, the first eighteen years at Paul Cabot’s company, State Street Research & Management, as an analyst, research director, portfolio manager, and chief investment officer. He was later a managing director at Putnam Investments. Following graduation from Yale and navy service, he worked as a teaching fellow in history while earning his Ph.D. at Harvard. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts with his wife Joan.