About the Author

Bill Feingold began his Wall Street career in 1985 as a corporate-finance analyst with Dillon Read after graduating from Yale, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in economics. Bill received Yale’s Hadley Prize for being the top graduating social sciences major. He earned his M.B.A. in 1991 with distinction in finance from the Wharton School.

Currently, Bill is Managing Director and Convertible Strategist at BTIG LLC in New York, having traded convertibles for the firm before taking a leave to write this book. Bill was previously responsible for managing a portfolio of convertible securities at Goldman Sachs.

Between Goldman Sachs and BTIG, Bill contributed regularly to the financial education Web site Minyanville and published his first book, 2009’s The Undoing of Cowardice.