Thomas J Sullivan
Throughout my life, helping others has been an integral part of who I am. I chose a career in financial services and wealth management because I can make a difference in the lives of families in my community. I grew up in Northern Virginia and have made this wonderful place my home for most of my life.
I strive to make sure clients feel heard and understand their unique stories. I also help clients understand the investment world in terms they can relate to. I offer investments, services, and tools my clients need to work toward their financial future.
I am an experienced consultant and service disabled and retired U.S. Army Veteran with over fifteen years of supporting the U.S. Government and Fortune 500 companies in strategy, management, and technology.
I am a husband and father who grew up in Northern Virginia and chose to make this wonderful area our home after my time in the military. I volunteer within the military veteran education non-profit space as a transition and education mentor. Additionally, I love fast cars, big trucks, cool tech, fantasy and science, and Dungeons and Dragons.
I hold an Executive Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies.
If you want to tell me more about yourself and your family's situation, don't hesitate to contact me at tom.sullivan3@ml.com or 540-899-2457. You can also reach me by messaging me through LinkedIn.
Supervisors: Matt Solomon
Phone: 5712166651
Address: 820 Belmont Bay Dr Apt 105, Woodbridge, VA. 22191-5465
I strive to make sure clients feel heard and understand their unique stories. I also help clients understand the investment world in terms they can relate to. I offer investments, services, and tools my clients need to work toward their financial future.
I am an experienced consultant and service disabled and retired U.S. Army Veteran with over fifteen years of supporting the U.S. Government and Fortune 500 companies in strategy, management, and technology.
I am a husband and father who grew up in Northern Virginia and chose to make this wonderful area our home after my time in the military. I volunteer within the military veteran education non-profit space as a transition and education mentor. Additionally, I love fast cars, big trucks, cool tech, fantasy and science, and Dungeons and Dragons.
I hold an Executive Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies.
If you want to tell me more about yourself and your family's situation, don't hesitate to contact me at tom.sullivan3@ml.com or 540-899-2457. You can also reach me by messaging me through LinkedIn.
Supervisors: Matt Solomon
Phone: 5712166651
Address: 820 Belmont Bay Dr Apt 105, Woodbridge, VA. 22191-5465
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Trying to take advantage of China's BRI, Latin America (LatAm) has been trying to enter into a higher level economic sphere. There has been some FDI and lending from China into LatAm, with the majority of the money going to infrastructure and mineral/energy initiatives and low/no interest governmental loans. Though these FDIs and loan agreements from China are increasing in the region, they do not account for all of the economic input from China into LatAm. One of those inputs does not receive as much attention: The China and LatAm equities (stock) markets.
Where do stock markets fit into the equation of world economies? Stock markets fit into one of four-sub groups of diversified financial markets, the other three markets are bonds, foreign exchange, and derivatives. Stock markets are an integral part of promoting long-run growth of economies; minimizing information costs and mobilized savings costs. Equity markets also encourage innovation within regions’ respective economies because they let risky and potentially high growth and productive companies seek access to greater financing and capital injections.2 Equity markets also enable retail (individual household) and institutional (investment management funds, companies, and other large organizations) investment into the region’s different companies.
Information is hard to come by when investigating the different stock markets, as the exchanges3 they trade on may not require in depth quarterly and annual reporting of company business transactions, acquisitions & mergers, inflows and outflows of investment capital, profit loss statements, and most importantly for this case study, the major regional, institutional, and retail shareholders of publicly traded companies. There is interesting information to be found by digging deeper into the different equities markets of China and Latin America, acquiring intelligence on how the interplay of these markets works between these regions.
This case study will analyze Chinese institutional and retail investors into publicly traded Latin American markets and observe the correlations between them; attempting to draw conclusions with the data found. Additionally, this case study shall provide a brief of the current state of affairs within the equity markets in the Chinese and LatAm regions. Having an understanding of this relationship can lend aid to investment managers, law and policy-makers, and diplomats in developing and implementing strategies to deal with, invest in, as well as arm possible future and foreign investors with the knowledge they need to move forward in their plans for investing in China and LatAm equities markets.
—JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Is investor behavior rational during times of high market volatility, bear, and bull markets? If investors are armed with the knowledge that markets can be vulnerable to irrational exuberance1 And, therefore, causing speculative bubbles, how can they improve their decision-making process during these periods of market change? These questions can begin to be answered by understanding the history and theory of behavioral finance and learning to implement the lessons that it teaches. Given the current academic understanding of behavioral finance theory: how people think and react to market bubbles; the majority of investors, advisors, and institutions do not act rationally during times of changing market conditions. Investors can correct their decision making processes during times of financial bubbles by learning from past market bubbles, understanding behavioral finance theory, learning to implement its concepts through self reflection of one’s rational expectations, recognizing and understanding their mistakes and those of others, and garnering self control of one’s actions and decisions during any type of financial situation.
The age of western Enlightenment, spanning through the 17th and 18th centuries, took shape through radical ideas on the nature of human beings, shunning old prejudices, using reason and science to come to conclusions once never thought possible. Divine-right monarchy soon looked like tyranny, resulting in humankind looking towards their universal rights and political constitutions; seeking reform and change. Knowledge of all things began to spread to all the people and ignorance was fading, allowing for people’s minds to be ‘enlightened’ to universal and natural truths. The spreading of these radical ideas and truths across Europe and America are due to the intellectual salons and women (and the Republic of Letters that resulted), technology, and a growing population.
Political scientists such as England’s Edmund Burke, who wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France and the United States of America’s Thomas Paine, who wrote Rights of Man shortly after in response to Burke, were both penultimate thinkers of their day, establishing themselves as men of authority on government, liberty, and the rights of man. Both Burke and Paine wrote and had differing opinions on the rights of man and on the proper forms of government, and were both adamant and accusatory in their writings: Burke on France and Paine on Burke.
Trying to take advantage of China's BRI, Latin America (LatAm) has been trying to enter into a higher level economic sphere. There has been some FDI and lending from China into LatAm, with the majority of the money going to infrastructure and mineral/energy initiatives and low/no interest governmental loans. Though these FDIs and loan agreements from China are increasing in the region, they do not account for all of the economic input from China into LatAm. One of those inputs does not receive as much attention: The China and LatAm equities (stock) markets.
Where do stock markets fit into the equation of world economies? Stock markets fit into one of four-sub groups of diversified financial markets, the other three markets are bonds, foreign exchange, and derivatives. Stock markets are an integral part of promoting long-run growth of economies; minimizing information costs and mobilized savings costs. Equity markets also encourage innovation within regions’ respective economies because they let risky and potentially high growth and productive companies seek access to greater financing and capital injections.2 Equity markets also enable retail (individual household) and institutional (investment management funds, companies, and other large organizations) investment into the region’s different companies.
Information is hard to come by when investigating the different stock markets, as the exchanges3 they trade on may not require in depth quarterly and annual reporting of company business transactions, acquisitions & mergers, inflows and outflows of investment capital, profit loss statements, and most importantly for this case study, the major regional, institutional, and retail shareholders of publicly traded companies. There is interesting information to be found by digging deeper into the different equities markets of China and Latin America, acquiring intelligence on how the interplay of these markets works between these regions.
This case study will analyze Chinese institutional and retail investors into publicly traded Latin American markets and observe the correlations between them; attempting to draw conclusions with the data found. Additionally, this case study shall provide a brief of the current state of affairs within the equity markets in the Chinese and LatAm regions. Having an understanding of this relationship can lend aid to investment managers, law and policy-makers, and diplomats in developing and implementing strategies to deal with, invest in, as well as arm possible future and foreign investors with the knowledge they need to move forward in their plans for investing in China and LatAm equities markets.
—JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Is investor behavior rational during times of high market volatility, bear, and bull markets? If investors are armed with the knowledge that markets can be vulnerable to irrational exuberance1 And, therefore, causing speculative bubbles, how can they improve their decision-making process during these periods of market change? These questions can begin to be answered by understanding the history and theory of behavioral finance and learning to implement the lessons that it teaches. Given the current academic understanding of behavioral finance theory: how people think and react to market bubbles; the majority of investors, advisors, and institutions do not act rationally during times of changing market conditions. Investors can correct their decision making processes during times of financial bubbles by learning from past market bubbles, understanding behavioral finance theory, learning to implement its concepts through self reflection of one’s rational expectations, recognizing and understanding their mistakes and those of others, and garnering self control of one’s actions and decisions during any type of financial situation.
The age of western Enlightenment, spanning through the 17th and 18th centuries, took shape through radical ideas on the nature of human beings, shunning old prejudices, using reason and science to come to conclusions once never thought possible. Divine-right monarchy soon looked like tyranny, resulting in humankind looking towards their universal rights and political constitutions; seeking reform and change. Knowledge of all things began to spread to all the people and ignorance was fading, allowing for people’s minds to be ‘enlightened’ to universal and natural truths. The spreading of these radical ideas and truths across Europe and America are due to the intellectual salons and women (and the Republic of Letters that resulted), technology, and a growing population.
Political scientists such as England’s Edmund Burke, who wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France and the United States of America’s Thomas Paine, who wrote Rights of Man shortly after in response to Burke, were both penultimate thinkers of their day, establishing themselves as men of authority on government, liberty, and the rights of man. Both Burke and Paine wrote and had differing opinions on the rights of man and on the proper forms of government, and were both adamant and accusatory in their writings: Burke on France and Paine on Burke.