Andrew Stotz

Andrew Stotz, CFA is the current President of the CFA Society Thailand^[1] and is one of Thailand’s award-winning equity analysts. He is also the founder and CEO of A.Stotz Investment Research (ASIR),^[2] a financial services company based in Bangkok, Thailand. Prior to launching ASIR he had spent 20 years working global investment banks in Asia. He has also been a university lecturer in finance for more than two decades and is a co-founder of CoffeeWORKS Co. Ltd., Thailand’s specialty coffee roaster.

Education

He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and an MBA from California State University. He is currently a Ph.D. in Finance candidate at the University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei, Anhui province.

Career

Andrew Stotz is the founder and current CEO of A. Stotz Investment Research (ASIR), providing institutional investors and fund managers with financial services such as valuation, stock selection and portfolios in Asian markets, based on the proprietary FVMR methodology. The methodology is aimed to not only favor one style such as value or growth, but instead considers four elements Fundamentals, Valuation, Momentum, and Risk—FVMR. In addition Stotz is the current President of the CFA Society of Thailand, a public speaker on topics such as investing, valuation and management related to Dr. Deming’s teachings. Since 2016, Stotz and ASIR have made much of their research free and publicly available through their initiative Become a Better Investor.^[3]

In 2013, Andrew Stotz retired from a 20-year career as an equity analyst at various investment banks in Thailand to set up ASIR. His last position was as a portfolio strategist and managing director of the International Business Department at Maybank Kim Eng Securities (Thailand).

He is a recognized public speaker and commentator on matters of investing in Thailand and Asia in general, invited and quoted by Bloomberg, US News, The Star and other regional and global news outlets.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

Books

• You Won't Get Rich in the Stock Market...Until You Change the Way You Think About It^[9]
• Transform Your Business with Dr. Deming's 14 Points^[10]

SSRN publications

• Ten Stocks are Enough in Asia^[11]
• Eight Stocks are Enough in China^[12]
• Financial Analysts Were Only Wrong by 25%^[13]

Private life & family

Andrew Stotz is the grand son of architect, architectural historian, and preservationist Charles Morse Stotz, and the great grand son of a notable Pittsburgh architect Edward Stotz.

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