The Investment Answer Author GORDON MURRAY Died of Brain Cancer

Gordon Murray, co-author of THE INVESTMENT ANSWER and former Wall Street investment banker, died at his home on Saturday, January 15. He had been battling glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, first diagnosed in 2008. Business Plus announced it today.

Murray spent more than 25 years working on Wall Street, primarily at Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and Credit Suisse First Boston, in a variety of institutional sales and management roles. After a recurrence of the disease, Murray decided to cease all further treatment. Instead, he decided to write THE INVESTMENT ANSWER, a clear-cut primer on the basics of financial investing. Even in his final days, Murray was actively involved in the promotion of the book and working with Business Plus, which will be publishing the book in hardcover on January 25, 2011.
Murray co-authored THE INVESTMENT ANSWER with his friend and financial advisor Daniel Goldie, which was originally self-published in August 2010.

Rick Wolff, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Business Plus, said, “We are most saddened by Gordon’s passing, but we take heart in that his inspirational spirit and legacy will live on in his honest and forthright book.”

After his Wall Street career, Murray worked as a consultant with Dimensional Fund Advisors, an investment management firm known for bringing academic research to the practical world of investing. Murray has served as Vice-Chair of the U.C. Berkeley Parents’ Fund and Advisory Board where he received the Trustees Citation Award in 2009 and on the board of the Hillsborough Schools Foundation where he founded the Scholars’ Circle. Murray graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an A.B. in Political Science, and received an M.B.A. from Columbia University.