Robert Johnson

Areas of Expertise: Value investing, Federal Reserve monetary policy, elections and capital market returns, portfolio management, financial ethics

Website: http://www.theamericancollege.edu/why-us/faculty/robert-r.-johnson-phd-cfa-caia

Books: “Invest With the Fed,” “Strategic Value Investing: Practical Techniques of Leading Value Investors,” “Investment Banking for Dummies,” “The Tools and Techniques of Investment Planning,” “The Role of Monetary Policy in Investment Management”

Topics Presented in Speeches: “The Value of Value Investing,” “The Crisis of Confidence and Restoring Trust in the Capital and Political Markets,” “Politics and Capital Market Returns,” “Monetary Policy and Investment Returns,” “Financial Ethics”

Email: bob.johnson@theamericancollege.edu

Biography:

Robert R. Johnson is chairman and CEO of Economic Index Associates, home to a new paradigm in index investing that has been researched, developed and tested for nearly 30 years. He is also a professor of finance at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business. He was formerly the president and CEO of The American College of Financial Services in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He was formerly senior managing director at CFA Institute, overseeing the Americas region, university relations and the professional conduct program. He was responsible for all aspects of the CFA Program for the majority of his 15-year tenure at CFA Institute. In 2013, he received the Alfred C. "Pete" Morley Distinguished Service Award from CFA Institute in appreciation of his leadership, stewardship and outstanding service. Johnson also served on the board of RS Investments, a San Francisco-based investment management firm.

Prior to joining CFA Institute, Johnson was professor of finance at Creighton University from 1984 through 1996. He has over 80 articles in leading finance and investment journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analysts Journal, and the Journal of Alternative Investments. He has extensive media relations experience both in the United States and abroad. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron's, Forbes, Toronto Globe and Mail, South China Morning Post, Singapore Strait Times, Le Temps and Nikkin Weekly Newspaper, among others. He has appeared numerous times on ABC World News, Bloomberg TV (Europe and US), CNN and China Business News, among others. He is a regular contributor to Fortune, The Street, Huffington Post and El Mercurio (Chile). 

Johnson received his B.S./B.A. in finance (summa cum laude) from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 1980, MBA (concentration in finance) from Creighton University in 1982, and Ph.D. in finance/investments from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1988. He is a holder of the right to use the CFA designation.