Glenn Atkins, CFA, MBA

GLENN E. ATKINS, CFA, MBA

Director of Research & Fixed Income Portfolio Manager
Garrison Financial Corporation

I have been in the investment management/financial services industry since 1987.  I received a   BSBA in Financial Management from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and am a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder. I received an MBA with a 4.0 GPA in July, 2012 from the Sam M. Walton Graduate School of Business.

I served on the Student Advisory Board during the second year of the MBA program and was selected by faculty and staff as the Most Outstanding Student from the class of 2012.  I am a member of the University of Arkansas Chapter of The International Honor Society Beta Gamma Sigma, which "is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in a business program accredited by AACSB International."  I am also a member of The Golden Key International Honour Society , the world's largest collegiate honor society.

I oversee the fundamental credit research efforts and am the fixed income portfolio manager for Garrison Financial Corporation in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a boutique SEC-registered investment advisor providing equity and fixed income portfolio management services for high-net worth and small institutional clients throughout the United States.

I am currently on the board of managing members of EquityNet, a software company dedicated to providing innovative tools to both investors and entrepreneurs in the private equity market place and I am also on the board of the Garrison Financial Institute at the University of Arkansas' Sam M. Walton College of Business.

While attending the University of Arkansas, I was selected as Portfolio Manager for the Raymond Rebsamen Trust Fund, an equity portfolio managed and administered by a select number of students from what is now known as the Sam M. Walton College of Business.

I have been managing personal and family equity portfolios since 1981 and I have an extensive   background in residential real estate leasing and development.  I am the majority owner of Atkins Properties, LLC, a family owned real estate leasing company in Springdale, Arkansas.

In 1987 I began specializing in fixed-income research and management for Monarch Capital Corporation, a Fortune 500 insurance holding company with assets under management totaling approximately $1 billion and joined Llama Asset Management Company, LP (the predecessor to Garrison Financial Corporation) in 1994.

I have authored articles for leading financial publications including The American Association of Individual Investors Journal and Arkansas Business, and was a contributing author for a book on bankruptcy investing entitled Bankruptcy Investing - How To Profit From Distressed Companies, which was recognized by Forbes magazine as one of ...the best from the class of '92."

I have also appeared as a guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School and I am a member of the Springdale, Arkansas Club of Rotary International.  In 1998 I was named to the "40 Under 40" list of up-and-coming business leaders by the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal.