| Robert Stovall Sr.
Robert Stovall, CFA, began his career on Wall Street as a messenger for Reynolds & Co. With time out for US Army service in Italy during World War II and gathering degrees from two of the financial community’s training grounds -- the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and New York University -- he has been in the investment community ever since.
Mr. Stovall has been a securities and market analyst for over 50 years. From 1961 to January 2000, he was a partner or voting stockholder of E.F. Hutton & Company, John Nuveen, Dean Witter Reynolds, and Stovall/Twenty-First Advisers, Inc., in the areas of asset supervision, research, marketing, and corporate communications. Mr. Stovall was also market strategist at Prudential Financial from February 2000 to March 2002. In April 2003, he joined Wood Asset Management, Inc. of Sarasota, Florida, as a managing director.
A frequent contributor to the financial press, Mr. Stovall has been a columnist for several publications. He was a regular panelist and "Hall of Fame" member on Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser, from 1976 through 2004. Mr. Stovall is also a commentator on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and PBS Nightly Business Report.
He was for 23 years a professor of finance at New York University’s Stern Graduate School of Business, a life trustee of the Securities Industry Institute at Penn’s Wharton School, and a regular lecturer at Stetson University’s George Investment Institute. He has been a trustee for the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, and director of the National Council on Economic Education.
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