Reflections from a Jacobs Scholar: Q&A with Ksenia Bobrik

Wharton Impact, August 20, 2025: Ksenia Bobrik, one of 10 Wharton MBA students chosen for the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Scholars in Quantitative Finance program for the 2024-2025 academic year, says she was attracted to the quantitative finance major by its “analytical rigor,” and the “opportunity to meaningfully explore how quantitative methods, data, and finance increasingly intersect in practice.”... Being a Jacobs Scholar, she said, “allowed me to be part of … cutting-edge conversations—not just observing, but actively engaging.” Bruce noted that, “In many ways, Ksenia’s experience as a Jacobs Scholar is what I had envisioned. My aim was to build a community of people invested in quantitative finance and create a ripple effect on a global scale. We are well on our way.”

Collaborating with Harry Markowitz: A Remembrance

by Bruce I. Jacobs, Journal of Investment Management, July 2025: Bruce Jacobs recounts his personal and professional relationship with the late Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz, which spanned more than 30 years, in this article featured in the Second Quarter issue of the Journal of Investment Management (JOIM)... The article includes remarks Jacobs delivered at the 2024 Spring JOIM Conference honoring Markowitz at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego, as well as a discussion between Jacobs and Nobel laureate Myron Scholes that followed Jacobs’s presentation.

Pa. Muni Hires New Large-Cap Growth Mgr.

fin|daily, June 26, 2025: Jacobs Levy Equity Management has been hired to manage a large cap growth mandate for Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System.