David Darst

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David Martin Darst, CFA, is an American financier, educator, and author. He is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and serves as Chairman of the Asset Allocation Committee and Chief Investment Strategist of the Global Wealth Management Group, with responsibility for Asset Allocation and Investment Strategy, and was the founding President of the Morgan Stanley Investment Group.

Contents 1 Early Life 2 Lecturing 3 Media appearances 4 Goldman Sachs 5 Bibliography 6 References

[edit] Early Life

Darst was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the third of five sons born to Guy Bewley Darst and Susan McGinnis Darst. Darst attended Father Ryan High School in Nashville, TN and earned a high school diploma from Phillips Exeter Academy, a BA degree in Economics from Yale University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

[edit] Lecturing

He has lectured extensively at Wharton, Columbia, INSEAD, and New York University business schools, and for nine years, Darst served as a visiting faculty member at Yale College, Yale School of Management, and Harvard Business School. He is a CFA Charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.

[edit] Media appearances

Darst appears frequently on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, and other television channels, and has contributed numerous articles to Barron's, Euromoney, The Money Manager, and other publications. He writes extensively on asset allocation in the Firm’s biweekly Investment Strategy and Asset Allocation Commentary and in the Morgan Stanley monthly publication, Asset Allocation and Investment Strategy Digest, the predecessors of which he launched in 1997.

[edit] Goldman Sachs

Darst joined Morgan Stanley in 1996 from Goldman Sachs, where he served as a Senior Executive within the Equities Division and earlier, for six years as Resident Manager of their Private Bank in Zurich.

[edit] Bibliography

• The Complete Bond Book (McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-017390-7);
• The Handbook of the Bond and Money Markets (McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-015401-5);
• The Art of Asset Allocation(McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-137950-9);
• The Art of Asset Allocation, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-0159294-6);
• Mastering the Art of Asset Allocation (McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-146334-8); and
• The Little Book that Saves Your Assets (John Wiley ISBN 13 978-0-470-25004-4).

[edit] References

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