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Janette Rutterford is Professor of Financial Management of the OU Business School. Janette's research has centred around corporate finance, investment management, and the history of finance. She has written a number of texts, notably Corporate Finance & Capital Markets, Financial Strategy, and An Introduction to Stock Exchange Investment. Her academic papers are in the field of performance measurement, equity valuation, pension funds, women and investment, and the history of finance. She is currently involved in a major ESRC research grant which is investigating women's wealth and investment from 1870 to 1930. Her paper on the history of equity valuation in 2004 was awarded the Basil Yamey prize for the best published paper in Accounting, Business and Financial History of 2004. She is co-editor, with Professor Josephine Maltby, of a special issue on Women and Money of Accounting, Business and Financial History, and, with Professor Maltby, is to be co-editor of a Routledge edited text on Women and Money.

Janette has been a non-executive director of Scott Bader plc and is a pension fund trustee of the company. She is also an investment adviser to Oxford Instruments Pension Scheme. She acts as an expert witness in investment-mismanagement cases and is an investment advisor for the pension fund of Oxford Instruments plc. She appears frequently on television and radio as an investment expert, and writes for professional magazines and newspapers as well as in academic journals. She contributes to the Open2.net blog accompanying the Money Programme - see her views on getting rich in a recession, the cost of being super-rich, the rise of private equity and the cost of divorce. She is a visiting professor at the Basque University of Bilbao and an external examiner at ESCP-EAP and Reading University.

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