Robert F. Buchanan, Chartered Financial Analyst

About

Experience

• Chief Executive Officer at Robert F. Buchanan, CFA, Associates L.L.C.
  Nov 2007 - Present · 18 yrs 8 mos

• Full-Time Finanance Instructor at Saint Louis University
  May 2008 - Jan 2011 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  Taught eight finance courses each academic year to undergraduates and graduates. Named Graduate Business Programs Professor of the Year among 80 full-time faculty in 2010. Courses ranged from the required introductory/core finance course to an elective course for select undergraduate finance majors entitled Applied Portfolio Management. In the latter course students invested a small portion of the Saint Louis University/SLU endowment in individual equities.

• Equities Research Analyst, Retailing at A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.
  Jul 1999 - Nov 2007 · 8 yrs 5 mos

  Covered the biggest retailers, including Wal-Mart and Costco, along with premier specialty apparel retailers, including Nordstrom and Abercrombie & Fitch. Significant out-performance, over time. Three times named an All America Analyst by Institutional Investor magazine. My retailing executive experience gained from being the No. 4-paid officer at Hudson's Bay Company in Toronto gave me an edge once I returned to the sell-side in 1999.