John Ameriks Ph.D

John Ameriks, Ph.D., is a principal and head of Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group. He oversees the portfolio management and strategy research teams that serve as investment advisor for Vanguard's internally managed active equity and multi-asset funds, including Vanguard Strategic Equity Fund, Vanguard Strategic Small-Cap Equity Fund, Vanguard Managed Payout Fund, Vanguard Alternative Strategies Fund, and Vanguard Global Minimum Volatility Fund. The group also manages portions of several of Vanguard's other active equity mandates.

Mr. Ameriks previously served as head of Vanguard Investment Counseling & Research, which, in conjunction with Vanguard Investment Strategy Group, develops the firm's advice methodology and conducts investment research.

Mr. Ameriks research has been published 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. He is coeditor, with Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, of Recalibrating Retirement Spending and Saving (Oxford University Press).

His current research interests include quantitative equity investment strategies, behavioral economics, issues in retirement finance, and solutions-oriented single-fund investments.

Before joining Vanguard in 2003, Mr. Ameriks was a senior research fellow at the TIAA-CREF Institute. Mr. Ameriks earned an A.B. from Stanford University and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.