Martin E. Zweig, Ph.D.
President
Dr. Martin Zweig serves as asset allocation strategist for two closed-end funds, The Zweig Fund, Inc. (NYSE: ZF) and The Zweig Total Return Fund, Inc. (NYSE: ZTR).
Since 1973, Dr. Zweig has been a regular panelist and guest host of the CNBC program Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street, and its PBS predecessor Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser. He was voted into its Hall of Fame in 1992.
He has a B.S.E. from the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania (1964) and is a member of the Wharton Undergraduate Executive Board. He has an MBA from the University of Miami (1967), where he was recognized as Alumnus of Distinction in 1991. He has a Ph.D. in finance from Michigan State University (1969), which honored him with its Outstanding Alumni Award in 1990.
Dr. Zweig was a finance professor for 15 years at the University of Miami, Michigan State University, City of New York and Iona College. He has written numerous articles on the stock market in Barron's beginning in 1970, where he invented the puts/calls ratio, and has been published in academic journals.
He is the author of two books, including the best-selling Winning on Wall Street and the out-of-print Winning in New IRAs. He is a trustee of the Museum of American Financial History and a founder of the Penn Club.