Robert W. Parenteau is a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and a sole proprietor of MacroStrategy Edge, where he uses macroeconomic insights to inform U.S. equity and global balanced-portfolio strategy. He has recently joined Presidio Graduate School as adjunct faculty teaching in the sustainable management graduate program. For more than two decades, Rob served as chief U.S. economist and investment strategist at RCM, an investment management company that is part of Allianz Global Investors. In this effort, he guided the global and domestic asset allocation, sector, factor, and industry selection decision making of RCM portfolio managers and equity analysts.Rob is also a Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute. He has published several papers with the Levy Institute and in Contemporary Post Keynesian Analysis (L. R. Wray and M. Forstater, eds. 2004) and Financialization and the World Economy (G. A. Epstein, ed., 2005). In addition, Rob is a frequent blogger on New Economic Perspectives, EconoMonitor, and Naked Capitalism. Rob’s research focuses on Hyman P. Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis, the macrodynamics of financial imbalances, and monetary sovereignty. Rob earned a BA in political economy at Williams College in 1983. He completed a chartered financial analyst degree in 1989 and then served as a regular lecturer for all three levels of the Security Analysts of San Francisco CFA preparation course until 1999.
