ANDREW S. CLARKE, CFA, is an investment researcher and writer. He has worked at Morningstar and Vanguard, where he served as an assistant to Vanguard founder and indexing pioneer John C. Bogle. He worked with Mr. Bogle on his bestselling Common Sense on Mutual Funds. He has published research in The Journal of Index Investing and is the author of Wealth of Experience.

NELSON W. WICAS, PHD, has over 30 years of experience in quantitative equity strategies, including 16 years at The Vanguard Group and 12 years at Redpoint Investment Management. He earned his PhD in economics at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting professor of economics at Haverford College.

GANESH A. SUNTHARAM, CFA, is the lead portfolio manager for global equity strategies at Aware Super, a retirement fund in Australia with over 1 million members. With more than 25 years of investment experience, he has served as the Chief Investment Officer of Redpoint Investment Management, as a hedge fund manager at Perpetual Limited and as a risk consultant at Barra. He has been the president of the Sydney CFA Society.