The IA 25 marks its fifth anniversary in 2007, and each year it gets harder to limit the number of influential people to just 25. The names change as certain issues come to prominence and then recede, but even some very influential people in and around the Investment Advisor universe fail to crack the list. Following are the IA 25 lists starting with 2003, and ending with this year's honorees.
MAY 2003
John Bogle
Amy Domini
William Donaldson
Harold Evensky
Sheryl Garrett
Andrew Gluck
Benjamin Graham
Alan Greenspan
William Gross
Mark Hurley
Deena Katz
George Kinder
Sallie Krawcheck
Ross Levin
Bill Miller
Michael Oxley
Don Phillips
Todd Robinson
Gary Schatsky
Charles Schwab
William Sharpe
Eliot Spitzer
Mark Tibergien
Bob Veres
Alfred West Jr.
MAY 2004
Phil Angelides
Joan Bavaria
Peter Bernstein
John Bogle
J. Thomas Bradley
George W. Bush & John Kerry
Stephen Cutler
Joseph Deitch
Roy Diliberto
William Donaldson
Harold Evensky
Sheryl Garrett
Andrew Gluck
Deena Katz
Jay Lanigan
Deborah McWhinney
Don Phillips
Richard Shelby
Eliot Spitzer
Lou Stanasolovich
Mark Tibergien
Marv Tuttle
Joseph Velli
Bob Veres
Alfred West, Jr.
MAY 2005
James Barnash
Tony Batman
Jessica Bibliowicz
George W. Bush
Bob Clark
Joe Deitch
William Donaldson
Sheryl Garrett
Andrew Gluck
Alan Greenspan
Bill Gross
Scott Hanson