William G. Shipman was co-chairman of Cato’s Project on Social
Security Choice and is chairman of CarriageOaks Partners, LLC. He
has spent more than twenty years in institutional financial
research and consulting. Shipman was general partner of H. C.
Wainwright & Company. He also established BRS Capital Management
Inc. and served as its president and managing director. Shipman’s
numerous studies on investment and business strategy have been
published in the Financial Analysts Journal, Pensions &
Investments, the Congressional Record, and the Journal of
Investing. He has testified before the Joint Economic Committee and
the House Ways and Means Committee. Shipman is a graduate of
Syracuse University.