Arthur Budolfson is a lecturer with W. P. Carey School of Business. His research areas include international finance, investment security analysis and portfolio management, and personal finance. His professional experience ranges from service as a security analyst, personal trust investment portfolio manager, and employee benefit investment portfolio manager to partner in an independent investment counseling firm. He joined ASU in 1997. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a designation awarded by The CFA Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia; past-president of the Phoenix CFA Society; Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS), a designation awarded by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.