About the Author

About the Author
Stuart A. McCrary is a principal with Chicago Partners L.L.C. and special-
izes in options, mortgage-backed securities, derivatives, and hedge funds.
As president of Frontier Asset Management, McCrary managed and ran his
own hedge fund before joining Chicago Partners. He has also worked as a
senior options trader at Fenchurch Capital Management, as vice president
in the mortgage department and in proprietary trading at First Boston Cor-
poration, and as a portfolio manager with Comerica Bank. He has taught
graduate-level courses in creating and managing a hedge fund at the Kell-
stadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University and courses in ac-
counting in Northwestern University's Masters in Product Development
program and options and financial engineering classes at the Stuart School
of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He received his BA and
MBA from Northwestern University.
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