Robert D. Arnott
| Robert D. Arnott | |
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| Born |
June 29, 1954 Chicago, IL |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California at Santa Barbara |
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| Fields | Finance |
| Institutions | Research Affiliates |
Robert D. Arnott (born June 29, 1954) is an American entrepreneur, investor, editor and writer who focuses on articles about quantitative investing. He serves as chairman and chief executive officer of Research Affiliates, LLC, which advises on over $160 billion in institutional investment assets, as of year-end 2015. He is married with four children. He edited CFA Institute's Financial Analysts Journal from 2002–2006, and has edited three books on equity management and tactical asset allocation. He is a co-author of the book The Fundamental Index: A Better Way to Invest, and co-editor of three other books relating to asset allocation and equity market investing.
Arnott has also served as a Visiting Professor of Finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, on the editorial board of the Journal of Portfolio Management, the product advisory board of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He previously served as Chairman of First Quadrant, LP, as global equity strategist at Salomon (now Salomon Smith Barney), president of TSA Capital Management (now TSA/Analytic), and as vice president at the Boston Company.
Arnott has received seven Graham and Dodd Scrolls and Awards, awarded annually by the CFA Institute for best articles of the year, and has received three Bernstein-Fabozzi/Jacobs-Levy awards from the Journal of Portfolio Management and Institutional Investor magazine.
Arnott has published over 100 academic papers in refereed journals. Topics of these papers have included mutual fund returns, the equity risk premium, tactical asset allocation, and alternative index investing.
In 2002, Arnott founded Research Affiliates, a Newport Beach, California-based investment management firm. As of June 30, 2016, about $161 billion in assets are managed worldwide using investment strategies developed by Research Affiliates. The firm has been involved with fundamentally based indexes since mid-2004 and has worked with the FTSE Group to create indices based on this methodology.
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