Edgar E Peters

Who is Edgar E Peters?

Edgar E. Peters, is an asset manager and writer on investment management topics. He is noted for his early contributions to the application of chaos theory to the financial markets.

Peters worked as an asset manager for PanAgora Asset Management, Inc., during which time he researched rescaled range analysis, and attempted to estimate the Hurst exponent of various financial markets. He has also taught at Babson College, Boston College and Bentley College, and contributed papers to the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Financial Analysts Journal. He now works at First Quadrant LLP in California.

His books include Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets According to WorldCat, the book is held in 659 libraries, Fractal Market Analysis andPatterns in the Dark: Understanding Risk and Financial Crisis with Complexity Theory.