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Thanks very kindly for your many well conceived replies. I am currently reading asset allocation research journal publications at SSRN before making a decision. Best regards,

I am interested in getting a PhD in Finance - Investments - Asset Allocation. Hmmm...am I getting too old for this? I retired this year as a Chief Investment Officer managing cash and investments within the Treasury department of a large U.S. tech company. The portfolio size was tens-of-billions but the volatility was low, as is typical for US Tech company portfolios. I would like to earn a PhD in Finance while continuing to learn about the latest research in asset allocation theory and practice. In the future I would enjoy teaching asset allocation and portfolio management as a professor and perhaps consulting to industry. I am fortunate that I already have enough money to live on (more or less) so my main goal is to be affiliated with a university while continuing to learn. I am looking at some practice tests to see what kind of GRE or GMAT I can score. I have no idea because the last time I took the GMAT I only got 640 but that was 25 years ago. I'm hoping that I may have accumulated more abilities since then. I am guessing I can get a very high math GRE or GMAT score but not without a lot of effort! - Age: 49, single, excellent health -1987 BS Mech Eng Univ of MN 3.25 GPA - 9 years engineering/mgt experience at GM and Boeing -1996 MBA USC 3.65 GPA -1999 CFA -16 years portfolio management experience mostly in fixed income at 3 institutional buy side firms, a large city, and at 2 large corporations - At the large US Tech company I led a team of 4 PMs/Analysts. We managing managers and managed most of the portfolio internally. - No publications and only a few, stale, academic references. I'd like to attend a school that is actively involved in asset allocation research. Here are some schools I have in mind to apply at for Fall 2013: Berkeley Stanford UCLA USC UC San Diego Vanderbilt ASU UNR NYU EDHEC (3yr European program) Thanks for your comments!!

I am interested in a PhD related to investments and asset allocation. Hmmm...am I too old to do this?... I retired this year as a Chief Investment Officer managing cash and investments within the Treasury department of a large U.S. tech company. The portfolio size was tens-of-billions but the volatility was low, as is typical for US Tech company portfolios. I would like to earn a PhD in Finance while continuing to learn about the latest research in asset allocation theory and practice. In the future I would enjoy teaching asset allocation and portfolio management as a professor and perhaps consulting to industry. I am fortunate that I already have enough money to live on (more or less) so my main goal is to be affiliated with a university while continuing to learn. I am looking at some practice tests to see what kind of GRE or GMAT I can score. The last time I took the GMAT I only got 640, but that was 25 years ago. I'm hoping that I have accumulated more abilities since then. I am guessing I can get a very high math GRE or GMAT score but not without a lot of effort! - Age: 49, single, excellent health -1987 BS Mech Eng Univ of MN 3.25 GPA - 9 years engineering/mgt experience at GM and Boeing -1996 MBA USC 3.65 GPA -1999 CFA -16 years portfolio management experience mostly in fixed income at 3 institutional buy side firms, a large city, and at 2 large corporations - At the large US Tech company I led a team of 4 PMs/Analysts. We managing managers and managed most of the portfolio internally. - No publications and only a few, stale, academic references. I'd like to attend a school that is actively involved in asset allocation research. Here are some schools I have in mind to apply at for Fall 2013: Berkeley Stanford UCLA USC UC San Diego Vanderbilt ASU UNR NYU EDHEC (3yr European program) Thanks for your comments!!