About Bob Robbins
 

Bob Robbins has 32 years’ investment experience as a fundamental analyst, money manager, and investment strategist.  For his first 10 years, he researched technology, energy, and conglomerate stocks. For the next two decades Bob was chief investment strategist at three major brokerage firms.  For the latest five years he was voted the most useful analyst by both financial consultants serving individual clients and European institutional clients.

 

Bob’s performance-oriented career is well-founded and demonstrated:

   
   
  

Working for a few of the strongest commercial and investment banking firms

   

Researching the spectrum of investment products and services for two years

   

Pursuing a practical approach using critical factors to forecast outcomes

   

Scoring very highly among money managers and investment strategists using no leverage

   

Gaining international recognition, including two special guest appearances on Wall Street with Louis Rukeyser (1990 and 1999)

   

13 years in New York City and 18 years in Atlanta

 

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PROFILE: Experienced, performance-oriented money manager and investment strategist.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

ROBBINS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT Atlanta, GA Present
President
Co-manager of a business pension account that has outperformed the S&P 500’s total return by 4.5% average annually over 15 years since inception.
Manager of a second account: +38% versus S&P 500 +15% in 19 months since inception.
Hedge fund manager since 1983: stocks (long and short), options, stock and bond futures.
Independent investment strategist focusing on the U.S. stock market, stock sectors, groups, subgroups, themes, and economics.

SUNTRUST ROBINSON HUMPHREY Atlanta, GA 1986 - 2002
(formerly Citigroup’s Salomon Smith Barney)
Senior Vice President/Chief Investment Strategist
Was rated the most useful analyst to individual clients and non-U.S. institutional clients.
Outperformed the S&P 500 an average of 22% compounded annually over 15 years since inception with all-capitalization SunTrust Robinson Humphrey (STRH) model portfolio.
Outperformed the S&P 500 an average of 7 percentage points compounded annually over 5 years since inception of large-capitalization STRH model portfolio.
Allocated model among stocks, bonds, and cash based on technical and fundamental analysis.
Allocated model among sectors, groups, and subgroups, e.g. successful with tech 1998-2002.
Analyzed and published insights into investment themes and economic undercurrents.
Outperformed S&P 500 with technical ratings of 200-400 stock universe. Under new rating system (two years), both buys and sells outperformed by more than 10% compounded annually.
Provided strategies for institutional and individual investors, traders, and speculators.

THOMSON MCKINNON New York, NY 1984 - 1985
Investment Strategist
Pioneered a fundamental investment strategy service, including a monthly economic and investment report, asset allocation, sector and group allocation, and model portfolios that outperformed the S&P 500 10% compounded annually.

BANKERS TRUST New York, NY 1976 - 1983
Research Analyst/Consultant
Fundamentally analyzed and rated oil, gas, gold, brokerage, and conglomerate stocks.
Pioneered technical service covering the spectrum of technical methodologies.
Consulted with performance measurement, compensation, and quantitative stock strategies.

CITIBANK New York, NY 1973 - 1976
Research Analyst
Fundamentally analyzed and rated minicomputer, mainframe, software, and service stocks.
Coauthored “Stocks, Bonds, T-bills, and Inflation in the Twentieth Century.”
 


MEDIA:
BUSINESS WEEK 1996 – 2000
Scored best among 45 global competitors forecasting the S&P 500 over 5 years.
Most accurate S&P 500 forecast 1997 and 1998.

WALL $TREET WITH LOUIS RUKEYSER 1990 & 1999
Bob Robbins presented investment insights as Lou’s featured guest twice.

THE WALL STREET SURVEY 1990 – 1994
Scored in the top 10% of stock market forecasters (5-year contest ended 1994).

CNBC, BLOOMBERG, CNNfn, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, BARRON’S, IBD 1984 – 2002

Commented regularly about the investment and economic outlook.


EDUCATION:
AMOS TUCK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Hanover, NH 1973

Master of Business Administration

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Hanover, NH 1969
Bachelor of Arts -- Economics Major


MILITARY SERVICE:
UNITED STATES ARMY, ARTILLERY 1969-1971

First Lieutenant, Forward Observer and Fire Direction Officer – Vietnam Combat


COMMUNITY SERVICE:
BROOKHAVEN COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, Director 2004
ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Finance Committee 1999-2000