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Instructor

Anthony Webster

Practical Experience:


Anthony Webster is president and senior portfolio manager of West End Advisors, LLC, which has served individual and institutional investors, family offices and corporations with excellent investment management and financial planning services since 2002. At West End, Mr. Webster specializes in high yield corporate bonds, equity-index options, related index-linked instruments and risk management. Prior to founding West End, he served as a financial advisor to corporations and high net worth individuals, and served on the boards of high-growth companies and leading technical publications. Mr. Webster has also authored books on technology and construction economics, and published extensively in leading technology journals.

Mr. Webster is a Lecturer in Finance at Columbia University’s Engineering School, where he teaches “Introduction to Accounting and Finance” and “Decision Models and Applications” (a quantitative financial modeling course). He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia’s Graduate Business School, where he teaches “Decision Models” in the Columbia/Berkeley executive MBA program. Columbia’s students have ranked Mr. Webster as a “Golden Nugget Professor” at their CULPA.info website.

Areas of Expertise:


High yield bond analysis and trading
Equity and equity-index options and futures
Simulation and Optimization methods
Portfolio management
Corporate finance
Valuation
Risk Management
VAR

Education:


MBA in finance from Columbia University's Business School
MS in Engineering Mechanics from Columbia University’s Engineering School
BS in Applied Science in Engineering from Rutgers University (summa cum laude).

Licenses:


Registered Investment Advisor
Series 65

Publication(s):


Mr. Webster has authored books on technology and construction economics, and published extensively in leading technology journals. Example publications include:
Technological Advance in Japanese Building Design and Construction. American Society of Civil Engineers Press, 1994.
Designing Digital Space. Daniela Bertol, ed. John Wiley and Sons, 1996 (in press). Chapter 11: Augmented Reality Applications in Architectural Construction, pp 193 - 200. Steven Feiner, Blair MacIntyre, William Massie and Ted Krueger are co-authors.
“Augmented Reality in Architectural Construction, Inspection and Renovation.” Proceedings: Third Congress in Computing and Civil Engineering, June 1996, in press 3/96. Steven Feiner, Blair MacIntyre and Ted Krueger are co-authors.

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