Lee Price Bio
Lee Price, Ph.D., CFA, is a former portfolio manager with RCM Capital Management,
predecessor to Dresdner RCM Global Investors, and has over 30 years of experience
in the investment industry. In addition to roles as analyst, economist, and chief strategist,
he was also RCM's first MIS director and was directly responsible for creating RCM's
investment decision-making software (RIMS) and performance reporting software (PERF).
Lee earned his MBA and Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford University along with a Masters in
nuclear engineering from MIT.
As a volunteer with the CFA Institute (formerly AIMR), Lee has had over 19 years of
experience in the area of creating standards for performance presentation. He served
as staff to the original AIMR Performance Presentation Standards (PPS) Committee and as one
of the original members of the follow-up implementation committee in 1990. Lee later
co-chaired or chaired the committee from 1995-99. He also chaired the first After-Tax
Performance Committee in 1994-96 and the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)
Committee in 1995-99. Lee is a past member of the AIMR Board of Governors, and is past
chair of the CFA Institute Standards of Practice Council. He is also a current trustee
of the Financial Accounting Foundation (parent of the Financial Accounting Standards Board)
and a past trustee of the Stanford Institute of International Studies.
Dr. Price was recipient of the Daniel J. Forrestal, III Leadership Award from the CFA
Institute in 2007 for his leadership in performance standard setting and standards of practice.
