Michael Schmidt
CFA
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Michael Schmidt, CFA earned an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Mr. Schmidt contributes to the CFA Institute as part of the Educational Advisory Board helping shape future CFA exams and has been part of the annual grading team since 2001. He has spent 20 years working for management and consulting fields, such as William M. Mercer, INDATA and Coastal Asset Management. His roles there included asset allocation and integration of pension investment assets. As an analyst at Mellon Bank, Northern Trust and Evergreen, he provided buy side research while publishing reports on various buy side sites like Dutton, Investrend and InvestSource. He has also managed investment portfolios for the institutional and the ultra high-net-worth arena with specialties in value and quantitative equity styles and multiple fixed income strategies. Mr. Schmidt is currently working for the NASD (now FINRA) Dispute Resolution Board as an arbitrator, chairperson and professional mediator. He has also testified as an expert witness for claimants/plaintiffs and respondents/defendants. Mr. Schmidt also consults to the website Invest Safe as an expert witness. You can contact Mr. Schmidt through this page or locate his consulting services on www.liveperson.com
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