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Timothy Francis McCarthy (born September 19, 1951) is a former financial services chief executive, a columnist, and author of ''The Safe Investor: How to Make Your Money Grow in a Volatile Global Economy''.


Early years

McCarthy grew up in the San Mateo/Burlingame area in northern California. He attended Aragon High School and Serra High School in San Mateo. He graduated from the
University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...
with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations. McCarthy then graduated from
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
's Graduate School of Business as a Baker Scholar, Harvard’s highest academic award.


Career

McCarthy began his career in the financial services industry working at
Merrill Lynch Merrill (officially Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated), previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America. Along with BofA Securities, the investment bank ...
in New York from 1983 to 1987. He then moved onto
Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments, commonly referred to as Fidelity, earlier as Fidelity Management & Research or FMR, is an American multinational financial services corporation based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was established in 1946 and is on ...
in Boston, where he served as an executive from 1987 to 1994. While at Fidelity, McCarthy served as president of both the Fidelity Investment Advisor Group and the National Financial Institutional Services group, as well as director of International Brokerage Group. McCarthy then worked as chief executive at Jardine Fleming Unit Trusts in Hong Kong from 1994 to 1995. After a year at Jardine Fleming, McCarthy went to work at Charles Schwab in
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, where he served as president for three years, until 1998. While at Schwab, McCarthy was one of the top three executives at the firm. Following his departure from Schwab, McCarthy spent the next 12 years in Asia, first serving as chairman at Good Morning Securities Group in Seoul, South Korea. After four years there, McCarthy spent eight years as chairman and CEO of Nikko Asset Management Co. in
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. McCarthy currently serves on the board of directors for Sherpa Digital Media.


Published works

McCarthy is the author of ''The Safe Investor: How to Make Your Money Grow in a Volatile Global Economy'', published by Palgrave Macmillan in February 2014. He has also written articles for various trade publications and writes ''The Smart Investor'' column for '' U.S. News & World Report''.


Personal life

McCarthy earned a black belt in
Kenpō is the name of several arts. The word kenpō is a Japanese translation of the Chinese word "''quánfǎ''". This term is often informally transliterated as "kempo", as a result of applying Traditional Hepburn romanization, but failing to use ...
karate when he was younger, and later ran a
dojo A is a hall or place for immersive learning or meditation. This is traditionally in the field of martial arts, but has been seen increasingly in other fields, such as meditation and software development. The term literally means "place of the ...
in San Francisco. He has said that he used the philosophy he learned through karate and adapted it to his management style while working as a chief executive in the financial services industry.


Bibliography

*
The Safe Investor: How to Make Your Money Grow in a Volatile Global Economy
', , published by Palgrave Macmillan in February 2014


References


External links


Timothy McCarthy's website

Timothy McCarthy's blog


Selected works


Archive of McCarthy's columns at U.S. World and News and World Report


written with Dan Kern For Financial Advisor magazine


Interviews and profiles



in the ''Financial Times''

in ''Forbes'' magazine
A Q&A with McCarthy about his book for ThinkAdvisor
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:McCarthy, Timothy Francis 1951 births Living people Harvard Business School alumni University of California, Davis alumni American finance and investment writers American Kenpo practitioners