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William Trainor Jr.

Areas of Expertise:  risk management, statistical modeling, valuation, leveraged ETFs, portfolio theory
 
 
Topics Presented in Speeches: "Portfolio Insurance using Leveraged ETFs;" "ETF's Leveraged Bad Boys:  Love 'em or Leave 'em;" "Black Swans Optional;" "Leveraged ETF Option Strategies;" "Assessing KiwiSaver Fund Providers;" "Market Anomalies:" "Asset Allocation Based on Accumulated Wealth and Future Contributions;" "Forecasting Holding Periods for Leveraged ETFs Using Decay Thresholds;" "Volatility and Compounding Effects on Beta and Returns;" "Target Date Funds: A Time Variant Path Dependent Tradeoff of Expected Return for Reduced Risk" and "How to Accumulate the First Million"
 
 
Biography:
William Trainor received his Ph.D. in finance from Virginia Tech in 1994 and has been with Eastern Tennessee State University since 2006. He has been a CFA charterholder since 2002 and is on the East Tennessee CFA Society Board. Trainor has published extensively in journals such as Financial Review, Journal of Index Investing, Managerial Finance, Journal of Personal Finance, Journal of Financial Planning, Journal of Investing, Atlantic Economic Journal and Financial Services Review, among others. In 2007, he received both ETSU's School of Business and Technology's Faculty Excellence Award for Outstanding New Faculty and the Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship, which he received again in 2011. In 2007 he was an Academy of Finance Teaching Excellence Award Finalist. More recently, Trainor was awarded a 2014 Fulbright Research Grant in New Zealand where he researched the Kiwi Savings Program.
 
Currently, Trainor teaches investments, applied equity valuation (in which students help manage part of TVA's investment portfolio), and applied corporate finance in the MBA and AMBA programs. He is a voting member of ARGI's Investment Committee and Tactical Subcommittee, which oversees an active globally diversified portfolio.
 
Trainor is an avid runner, mountain biker and climber. When not in the classroom or working on research, he can usually be found somewhere out in the woods or on a rock.

author Image William J. Trainor Ph.D., CFA, is a professor of finance in the Department of Economics and Finance at East Tennessee State University.

Recent Articles

  • Leveraged ETFs: Multiplying by the Unknown

    AAII JOURNAL ● TRADING STRATEGIES,EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS ● July 2017