J Anthony Boeckh PhD

From 1968 to 2002, he was chairman, chief executive and editor-in-chief of Montreal-based BCA Research (previously known as BCA Publications), publisher of, among others, the highly regarded Bank Credit Analyst, a monthly big-picture analysis of the U.S. economy and financial markets. BCA Research is now owned by Euromoney PLC.

He was also chairman of Greydanus, Boeckh and Associates from 1985-99, a fixed-income investment firm which managed $2-billion in assets when it was sold to Toronto-Dominion Bank in December, 1999.

Mr. Boeckh has a PhD in Finance and Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a B. Comm from the University of Toronto. He spent four years in the research department of The Bank of Canada in the early 1960's working in the areas of monetary and economic analysis.

He taught Economics and Finance at McGill University in Montreal from 1968 to 1973 and has lectured at economic, financial and investment seminars and conferences in various international centers in North America, Asia and Europe. He recently authored The Great Reflation: How Investors Can Profit from the New World of Money, published by John Wiley & Sons in 2010 and co-authored The Stock Market and Inflation, published by Dow Jones-Irwin in 1982. He is a founding trustee of the Fraser Institute in Vancouver British Columbia (an economic "think tank" dedicated to free market principles).