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Emeritus Professor of Finance
BSc PhD (London)
Professor Paul Marsh’s main areas of expertise and interest are long-run investment returns, global equity markets, smaller companies’ investment, asset management and corporate finance.
He has published articles in the Journal of Business, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Portfolio Management, Harvard Business Review and many other journals.
Together with Elroy Dimson and Mike Staunton, he wrote the influential investment book Triumph of the Optimists, published by Princeton University Press. Since 2000, they have also produced the annual Global Investment Returns Yearbook, which documents global asset returns since 1900.
Paul is currently Emeritus Professor of Finance at London Business School and has been Chair of the Finance subject area, Deputy Principal, Faculty Dean, an elected Governor and Dean of the Finance Programmes (including the Masters in Finance).
Paul has been a non-executive director of M&G Group, Majedie Investments and Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust, where he was also Chairman. He has acted as a consultant to a wide range of financial institutions and companies.
Paul was part of the team that designed the FTSE 100 Share Index, and with Elroy Dimson, he co-designed the Numis Smaller Companies Index, and the Risk Measurement Service, which London Business School has published since 1979.
2021
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
Journal of Portfolio Management 2021 Vol 47:7 p 14-26
2020
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
Journal of Portfolio Management 2020 Vol 47:1 p 75-87
2017
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
Journal of Portfolio Management 2017 Vol 43:5 p 15-37
2016
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2016
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
in Global investment returns yearbook, Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2016
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
Global investment returns yearbook, Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2016
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
Chapter 1, pp 2-27 in: Chambers D; Dimson E (eds). Financial Market History: reflections on the past for investors today. CFA Institute Foundation, 2016. ISBN 9781944960131
2015
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
in Inclusive Capitalism: the pathway to action - thoughts from the 2015 Conference on Inclusive capitalism. Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, London, pp. 77-78.
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2015
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
Global investment returns yearbook, Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2015
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
Global investment returns yearbook, Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2015
2014
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2014
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
Global investment returns yearbook, Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2014
2008
Dimson E; Marsh P; Staunton M
in Mehra R ed., Handbook of the equity risk premium, Elsevier, 2008, p 467-514
2006
Marsh P R; Dimson E; Staunton M
in Kurr V, Huwer K and Kehrbaum J eds., Praktiker-Handbuch Asset-Management: Herausforderungen begegnen und Chancen ergreifen, Schaeffer-Poeschel, 2006
Marsh P R; Dimson E; Staunton M
in Mehra R ed., Handbook of investments: equity risk premium, North-Holland, 2006
2005
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
London Business School Alumni News 2005 Vol 104 p 20-21
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
Investment & Pensions Europe 2005 Apr p 56-57
2004
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
ABN-AMRO/London Business School, 2004
Marsh P R; Dimson E; Staunton M
Financial Analysts Journal 2004 Jan/Feb Vol 60:1 p 15-25
Marsh P R; Dimson E; Staunton M
Journal of Portfolio Management 2004 Vol 30:4 p 133-143
Dimson E; Marsh P R
in Batchelor R and Dua P eds., Financial forecasting, Edward Elgar/Elsevier, 2004
2003
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 2003 Vol 15:4 p 27-38
Marsh P R; Dimson E; Staunton M
Euromoney Corporate Finance 2003 Mar Vol 8:4 p 16-20
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
Toyo Kezai, 2003
2002
Marsh P R
in J Pickford ed., Mastering investment, p9-16, FT Prentice Hall, 2002
Dimson E; Marsh P R
Journal of Asset Management 2001 Apr Vol 1:4 p 311-320
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
Business Strategy Review 2001 Vol 11:2 p 1-18
Dimson E; Marsh P R
in Keim D B and Ziemba W eds., Security market imperfections in worldwide equity markets, p 116-143, Cambridge University Press, 2000
1999
Dimson E; Marsh P R
Journal of Portfolio Management 1999 Winter Vol 25:2 p 53-69
Marsh P R
in Bickerstaffe G ed., Mastering finance, p168-174, Financial Times/Pitman, 1998
1995
Dimson E; Marsh P R
Journal of Finance 1995 Vol 50:3 p 821-851
1994
Dimson E; Marsh P R
Corporation of London, 1994
Marsh P R
in Dimsdale N and Prevezer M eds., Capital markets and corporate governance, Clarendon Press, 1994
Marsh P R
Office of Fair Trading, 1994
1992
Marsh P R et al.
Long Range Planning 1992 Oct Vol 25:5 p 43-58
Marsh P R
in Newman P, Milgate M and Eatwell J eds., New Palgrave dictionary of money and finance, Macmillan, 1992
1991
Marsh P R
Treasury Today 1991 Jul-Oct Vol 1:7-10 (series of 4 articles)
1990
Marsh P R; Barwise T P; Higson C J; Likierman J A
in Power M ed., Brand and goodwill accounting strategies, Woodhead Faulkner, 1990
Likierman J A; Barwise P; Higson C; Marsh P
Business Strategy Review 1990 Vol 1:2 p 43-61
Dimson E; Marsh P R
London Stock Exchange, 1990
Dimson E; Marsh P R
in Phillip A ed., Background to pension fund investment in the nineties, AP Information Services, 1990
Dimson E; Marsh P R
Journal of Banking and Finance 1990 Jun Vol 14:2 p 399-421
1989
Barwise T P; Marsh P R et al.
Graduate Management Research 1989 Winter Vol 4:3 p 12-33
Barwise T P; Marsh P R; Wensley J R C
Harvard Business Review 1989 Sep-Oct Vol 67:5 p 85-90
2006
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
ABN-AMRO/London Business School, 2006
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
ABN-AMRO/London Business School, 2005
Marsh P R; Dimson E; Staunton M
State Council Office for Restructuring Economic Systems, Beijing, 2005
2003
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
ABN-AMRO/London Business School, 2003
2002
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
ABN-AMRO/London Business School, 2002
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
Princeton University Press, 2002
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
ABN-AMRO/London Business School, 2001
Dimson E; Marsh P R; Staunton M
ABN-AMRO/London Business School, 2000
1994
Dimson E; Marsh P R
Hoare Govett Investment Research, 1994
1993
Dimson E; Marsh P R
Hoare Govett Investment Research, 1993
1992
Dimson E; Marsh P R
Hoare Govett Investment Research, 1992
1991
Dimson E; Marsh P R
Hoare Govett Investment Research, 1991
1990
Dimson E; Marsh P R
Hoare Govett Investment Research, 1990
1989
Barwise T P; Higson C J; Likierman J A; Marsh P R
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales/London Business School, 1989
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