John Ameriks

John Ameriks, Ph.D., is a principal and head of Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group. He oversees the portfolio management and strategy research teams that advise Vanguard's internally managed active equity and multi-asset funds. Mr. Ameriks’ research has appeared in The Journal of Finance, The American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Financial Planning. His current research interests include quantitative equity investment strategies, behavioral economics, retirement finance, and solutions-oriented single-fund investments. Mr. Ameriks earned an A.B. from Stanford University and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.