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 ROBERT
ARNOTT
Chairman, Founder
As a second-grader, Robert Arnott calculated the earth’s curvature at eight
inches per mile-squared. As a third-grader, he gave his class weekly lectures
on the nine planets. On his 10th birthday, he wanted to put the $7.50 his grandma
sent him into the stock market. In college, he tried to hide his geekiness under
very long hair, suede bell-bottoms, and a Guatemalan shirt embroidered with a
Quetzal bird. The shirt and bell-bottoms no longer fit, and much of the hair
is gone. But the geekiness remains, as does his fondness for exotic motorcycles.
As does the willingness to challenge conventional thinking.
His success in doing so has resulted in a reputation as one of the world’s
most provocative and respected financial analysts.
Several unconventional portfolio strategies now in wide application figure among
Rob Arnott’s pioneering innovations: tactical asset allocation, global
tactical asset allocation, tax-advantaged equity management, and fundamental
indexation, among others.
An intrepid entrepreneur, Rob has built and led three major asset management
firms, serving along the way as equity strategist for Salomon Brothers. He established
Research Affiliates® in 2002 as a research-intensive asset management firm, focused
on building cutting-edge new products, and bringing them to the marketplace through
affiliations wherever possible. With a product menu ranging between sub-advisory
services, asset management products, and software models, Research Affiliates®
sub-advises the first global asset allocation product to actively tap alternative
markets beyond conventional stocks and bonds.
A widely published financial thinker, Rob has been a frequent contributor to
leading financial journals and books. He has served as editor of the Financial
Analysts Journal, and has published more than 100 articles in the FAJ,
the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Harvard Business Review,
and other respected journals. Rob lectures frequently, has served as a visiting
professor of finance at UCLA, and has served on the product advisory board of
the Chicago Board Options Exchange and two other exchanges.
In recognition of his achievements as a writer, Rob has received five Graham
and Dodd Scrolls and Awards, awarded annually by CFA Institute for best articles
of the year, and declined a sixth award during his tenure as editor. He also
received two Bernstein-Fabozzi/Jacobs-Levy awards from the Journal of Portfolio
Management and Institutional Investor magazine.
Rob is the former chairman of First Quadrant, LP, where he developed quantitative
asset management products. He also served as global equity strategist at Salomon
Brothers (now part of Citigroup), the president of TSA Capital Management (now
part of Analytic), and as a vice president at The Boston Company (now PanAgora).
Rob Arnott graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Santa
Barbara, in economics, applied mathematics, and computer science in 1977. He resides
in Pasadena, California, where he still motorcycles most weekends.
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Robert Arnott
David Hennessy
Jason Hsu
Janine Nesbit
Katrina Sherrerd
Michael Bowers
Stephen Brennan
Doug Gratz
Daniel Harkins
Vitali Kalesnik
Michael Larsen
Feifei
Li
Shane Shepherd
Vivek Viswanathan
John West
Julia Zhu
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