My name is Rich Howe. I’m 35 years old and live outside Boston with my wife and 4 year old daughter and 1 year old son. For my entire life, I’ve loved investing.

My dad was a large cap equity portfolio manager in Boston and my mom was a junk bond analyst for PIMCO, and so growing up, I would pester them constantly with questions about investing. Luckily, they would humor me and do their best to answer my repetitive and basic questions. In high school and then in college, I joined the investment club and continued to build my investing knowledge.

After graduating from Trinity College in Connecticut, I joined Eaton Vance full-time as an equity research associate. While at Eaton Vance, I completed the Chartered Financial Analyst program and earned the CFA designation. Eaton Vance was a great place to learn the investment business, and I had the opportunity to cover many industries (software, internet, health care, financials). It was while at Eaton Vance that I read Joel Greenblatt’s You Can Be a Stock Market Genius and became instantly hooked on investing in stock spin-offs. I had some success (EGL and FURX) and some failures (TMQ), but I kept learning important lessons.

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