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Al Ehrbar is president and chief executive of EVA Advisers and its chief compliance officer. Prior to forming EVA Advisers, he was a partner at Stern Stewart & Co. and head of BrandEconomics LLC, a Stern Stewart subsidiary that created the first wholly objective methodology for valuing brands and modeling the impact of brand strategies on business value. Before joining Stern Stewart in 1995, Mr. Ehrbar spent more than 20 years as one of the most prominent business and financial journalists in the U.S. He was the youngest person ever elected to Fortune magazine's Board of Editors and was the first to write about many of the breakthroughs in modern portfolio theory. A June 1976 article, "Index Funds-An Idea Whose Time is Coming", prompted a 10-fold increase in the assets invested in index funds in less than a year and was a catalyst to John Bogle's creation of the Vanguard 500 Index Fund. Mr. Ehrbar also has been a senior economics writer at The Wall Street Journal and was editor and publisher of Corporate Finance magazine and chief operating officer of its parent company. He is the author of the bestselling EVA: The Real Key to Creating Wealth (John Wiley & Sons, 1998) and Found Money-Managing the Productivity Revolution (Whittle Direct Books, 1993), and was a co-editor of The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics (Warner Books, 1993). He has an MBA in finance and economics from the University of Rochester and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University. | 