Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management About the Author Prasanna Chandra, an MBA and PhD in Finance, with over four decades of teaching experience in postgraduate and executive education programmes, is currently Director of Centre for Financial Management (CFM), Bangalore. He was Professor of Finance at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore for nearly two decades and a Visiting Professor of Finance at Southern Illinois University, USA for two years. Professor Chandra had been a consultant to and a board member of several organisations including Power Finance Corporation, UTI, IFCI, IIM (B), Bangalore Stock Exchange Limited. He has been a member of several committees including the Capital Issues Advisory Committee, the high-powered committee on insurance sector reforms and the SEBI Committee on Derivatives.