Scott Rothbort has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is the Founder and President of LakeView Asset Management, LLC, www.lakeviewasset.com a Registered Investment Advisor specializing in customized separate account management for high net worth individuals. In addition, he is the founder of TheFinanceProfessor.com www.thefinanceprofessor.com an educational social networking site where his blog also resides; and, publisher of The LakeView Restaurant & Food Chain Report www.restaurantstox.com , a newsletter focusing on investment and trading ideas in the food, restaurant and agricultural sectors. Mr. Rothbort is also a Term Professor of Finance at Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business, where he teaches courses in finance and economics; is the Chief Market Strategist for The Stillman School of Business; and, the co-supervisor of the Center for Securities Trading and Analysis. In May 2011, along with partners, he opened From Bagels To Burgers www.frombagelstoburgers.com , a restaurant in Lake George, NY for which he is the managing partner and CEO. In September 2011, along with Cody Willard, he co-founded Wall Street All-Stars www.wallstreetallstars.com , a collection of publications, commentary and analysis from some of the finest money managers and traders on Wall Street, where he also contributes his commentary on a daily basis.
Mr. Rothbort has written extensively for The Street.com www.thestreet.com since 2002. His blog is also republished by Seeking Alpha http://seekingalpha.com/author/scott-rothbort He has frequently appeared as a professional guest on Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Television, Fox Business Network, CNBC Television, TheStreet.com TV, WallStreetWeek.com, and local television or radio. As an expert in the field of derivatives and exchange traded funds (ETFs), he frequently speaks at industry conferences. He is an ETF advisory board member for the Information Management Network, a global organizer of institutional finance and investment conferences. In addition he is widely quoted in interviews in the printed press and on the internet.
Mr. Rothbort founded LakeView Asset Management, LLC, in 2002. Prior to that, since 1991, he worked at Merrill Lynch where he held a wide variety of senior level management positions including: Business Director for the Global Equity Derivative Department; Global Director for Equity Swaps Trading and Risk Management; and, Director for secured funding and collateral management for the Global Capital Markets Group and Corporate Treasury. Prior to working at Merrill Lynch, within the financial services industry he worked for County Nat West Securities and Morgan Stanley, where he had international assignments in Tokyo, Hong Kong and London. He began his career working at Price Waterhouse from 1982 to 1984.
Mr. Rothbort received an M.B.A., majoring in Finance and International Business from the Stern School of Business, New York University, in 1992, and a B.S. in Economics, majoring in Accounting, from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, in 1982. He is also a graduate of the prestigious Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Mr. Rothbort is married to Layni Horowitz Rothbort, a real estate attorney and together they have five children.
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Scott’s latest columns:
- 8:45am Thursday, May 17, 2012: My Gut Feeling for Today, May 17, 2012 ($) - Wall Street All-Stars» Scott Rothbort
It just doesn’t matter !!! It just doesn’t matter that US economic data continues to improve It just doesn’t matter that housing in the US and related mortgage data is on the upswing It just doesn’t matter that earnings continue to better Wall Street consensus [...] - 7:28am Wednesday, May 16, 2012: My Gut Feeling for Today, May 16, 2012 ($) - Wall Street All-Stars» Scott Rothbort
With half of the month of May in the books, the S&P 500 (SPX) is lower by 4.81% for the month and has declined 6.45% from its recent high. So, despite all of the seeming panic out there, this is just a garden variety pullback. [...] - 8:57am Tuesday, May 15, 2012: My Gut Feeling for Today, May 15, 2012 ($) - Wall Street All-Stars» Scott Rothbort
We had another ugly session yesterday with Greece and Europe once again being the locus of the problem. Greece continues to falter politically and economically as the country is unable to form a coalition government. There are a series of games of chicken being played [...] - 9:14am Monday, May 14, 2012: My Gut Feeling for Today, May 14, 2012 ($) - Wall Street All-Stars» Scott Rothbort
The dysfunctional Greek political process played out over the weekend and failed to form a coalition government. While they still have a few days to do so, the inability to act like responsible adults over the weekend caused an implosion of the Greek stock market [...] - 12:04pm Friday, May 11, 2012: Digging Deeper Into The JP Morgan Chase Loss - Wall Street All-Stars» Scott Rothbort
By know you should have heard that after the market closed yesterday, JP Morgan Chase (JPM) announced that the company lost about $2 billion on synthetic credit security investment trades taken on by its chief investment office in its London branch. Supposedly the loss was taken on poorly designed hedges in its credit risk portfolio. [...]
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