Robert N. Gordon

Adjunct Professor of Finance

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
44 West 4th Street, 9-150
New York, NY 10012
Phone number: (212) 998-0300
Email: rgordon@stern.nyu.edu


Applications of Arbitrage Theories	Arbitrage and Hedging Strategies

Business Experience

Founder and President of Twenty-First Securities Corporation
Partner in Charge of Arbitrage and Tax at Oppenheimer & Co.
Senior Vice President and Regional Manager at Laidlaw Adams & Peck
Member of the Securities Industry Association's Board of Directors
Chairman of the SIA Tax Policy Committee
Chairman of SIA's New York District
Trustee and former Chairman of the Securities Industry Institute at the University of Pennsylvania

Mr. Gordon is the author (with Jan Rosen) of Wall Street Secrets for Tax-Efficient Investing and author or coauthor of chapters of Tax Planning for the Affluent, Market Shock and The Investment Think Tank. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of Derivatives Report, The Journal of Taxation and Investments and The Journal of Wealth Management. As a member of the Curriculum Committee of the Chartered Investment Analysts Association, he has contributed half the CAIA's study material on the intersection of taxes and hedge funds.

Publications

Gordon, Robert and Rosen, Jan, "The Benefits and Methods of Harvesting Your Losses, and Not Just at Year-End," The Journal of Wealth Management, Institutional Investor, Inc., New York, Fall 2001.
Gordon, Robert, "Commodities in An Asset Allocation Context," Journal of Taxation of Investments, Civic Research Institute: Kingston, New Jersey: Winter 2006.
Gordon, Robert, and Fichtenbaum, Mark, "Hedging Appreciated Employee Stock Options: Tax, Economic and Regulatory Concerns," Derivatives Report, Warren, Gorham & Lamont, RIA Group: New York, October 2000.
Gordon, Robert, "Hedging Nonqualified Stock Options," Journal of Taxation of Investments, Civic Research Institute: Kingston, New Jersey, Spring 2004.
Gordon, Robert, "Hedging Nonqualified Stock Options Revisted," Journal of Taxation of Investments, Civic Research Institute: Kingston, New Jersey, Summer 2004.
Gordon, Robert, "Is Your Hedge Fund a Trader or an Investor?" Journal of Wealth Management, Institutional Investor: New York, NY, Summer 2005.
Gordon, Robert, "Making Hedge Funds More Tax-Efficient," Journal of Wealth Management, Institutional Investor: New York, NY, Summer 2004.
Gordon, Robert and Fichtenbaum, Mark, "Practitioners Are Concerned About Proposed Regulations On Exempt Qualified Covered Call Options, Interest And Expense Capitalization," Derivatives Report, Warren, Gorham & Lamont, RIA Group: New York, May 2001.
Gordon, Robert and Fichtenbaum, Mark, "The Pursuit of Dividends After the Tax Act of 2003: Limitations, Traps and Ambiguities," Journal of Taxation of Investments, Civic Research Institute: Kingston, New Jersey, Autumn 2003.
Gordon, Robert, "Recent Developments Involving Hedges, Collars and Microsoft Dividends," Journal of Taxation of Investments, Civic Research Institute: Kingston, New Jersey, Winter 2005.
Gordon, Robert, "The Right Way to Utilize Wall Street Research," The Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Philadelphia, Vol. 1, No. 2, July 1994.
Gordon, Robert, and Fichtenbaum, Mark, "Tax Consequences of Using Listed Equity Derivatives in Managing A Stock Portfolio," Derivatives Report, Warren, Gorham & Lamont, RIA Group: New York, July/August 1996.