John M. Longo, PhD, CFA

Dr. Longo is a Distinguished Professor of Professional Practice in the Finance & Economics Department at Rutgers Business School and Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager for Beacon Trust, a registered investment advisor with $4 billion under management. Beacon is a subsidiary of Provident Financial Services (NYSE: PFS), founded in 1839. Dr. Longo was a Visiting Professor of Finance at EMBA Global – the joint international Executive MBA Program of Columbia University, London Business School, and The University of Hong Kong for 7 years. He is the bestselling author of The Art of Investing: Lessons from History’s Greatest Traders, published by TheGreatCourses.com and Buffett’s Tips: A Guide to Financial Literacy and Life (Wiley, 2020). He is a member of the Board of Directors of a San Diego-based Biotech firm traded on Nasdaq.

Dr. Longo has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Radio, ABC News, Fox Business, BBC World, wsj.com (video), GreatInvestors.tv, The (Ron) Insana Quotient and several other programs. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones MarketWatch, U.S. News & World Report, CNBC.com, The Chicago Tribune, The Star Ledger, Hedge Fund Alert, FundFire, Business Insider, The Harvard Crimson, Yale Daily News, and dozens of other periodicals. He led Rutgers students to a personal visit with Warren Buffett in Omaha, Nebraska on four separate occasions. Previously, he was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. and served on the Advisory Board of Bloomberg’s educational subsidiary, The Bloomberg Institute.