Marty Fridson is the chief investment officer at Lehmann, Livian, Fridson Advisors (a SEC registered investment adviser) and a widely respected fixed-income analyst. He is one of Wall Street’s most thoughtful and perceptive analysts. In 2000, Marty became the youngest person ever inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame. The Financial Management Association named him its Financial Executive of the Year in 2002. He has been dubbed “The Dean of The High Yield Bond Market” in conjunction with being voted on to the Institutional Investor’s All-America research team. In 2013, he served as special assistant to the director for deferred compensation in the Office of Management and the Budget in New York City.
A respected author, Marty has been ranked in the top 10 most widely published authors in finance from 1990 to 2001. In 2000, The Green Magazine called Fridson’s Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner’s Guide “one of the most useful investment books ever.” The Boston Globe said his 2006 book, Unwarranted Intrusions: The Case Against Government Intervention in the Marketplace, should be short-listed for best business book of the decade.