Craig Merrill

About Craig Merrill

Craig Merrill is a finance professor with Brigham Young University where he has been a member of the faculty for more than thirty years. He is also a Fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Research Center. Dr. Merrill teaches fixed income asset management and ethics for finance students. His research focuses primarily on fixed income securities and derivatives, asset-liability management, and applications of financial pricing to insurance liabilities.Dr. Merrill’s consulting assignments (AIG, Swiss Re, Goldman Sachs, The Hartford, Lazard Freres, Merrill Lynch, New York Life, Pacific Life, Winkelvoss & Associates, and others) have involved such projects as a two-factor bond pricing model, multi-asset return simulation models, compiling a database of intraday treasury security prices based on the GovPX data feeds, and development of international interest-rate and exchange-rate simulation models. He has served as an expert witness in cases involving reinsurance, fixed and variable annuities, and insurance pricing.Dr. Merrill’s work is published in a number of peer review journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Risk and Insurance and the North American Actuarial Journal from whom he received the award for best paper of 2002. Dr. Merrill has also presented his research at many prominent meetings and seminars throughout the United States.

Experience

1. Senior Consultant

   Charles River Associates

   Jun 2005 — Present

   Provided testimony in the United States District Court in cases involving complex financial valuation and risk management issues. Cited positively by the judge in multiple decisions.

Education

• The Wharton School

  PhD, Risk Management, Finance

  1990 — 1993

• The Wharton School

  MS, Financial Economics

  1990 — 1991

• Brigham Young University

  BS, Economics, Statistics, Japanese

  1983 — 1989

Skills

• Economics
• Financial Risk
• Business Development
• Negotiation
• Insurance
• Financial Modeling
• Research
• Strategic Planning
• Business Analysis
• Leadership Development
• Entrepreneurship
• Leadership
• Consulting
• Analytics
• Analysis
• Business Strategy
• Finance
• Valuation
• Risk Management
• Corporate Finance
• Fixed Income
• Team Leadership
• Management
• Data Analysis
• Derivatives
• Financial Analysis