Tom Jacobs in an Investment Advisor managing individual accounts with Dallas's Echelon Investment Management, and co-author of What's Behind the Numbers? A Guide to Exposing Financial Chicanery and Avoiding Huge Losses in Your Portfolio (McGraw-Hill, 2012). He has been investing ...more

Tom Jacobs in an Investment Advisor managing individual accounts with Dallas's Echelon Investment Management, and co-author of What's Behind the Numbers? A Guide to Exposing Financial Chicanery and Avoiding Huge Losses in Your Portfolio (McGraw-Hill, 2012). He has been investing since 1968, when he and his father bought two shares of Ford. Mindful of his Depression-era parents' stories, Tom practices value investing. Though he covers the range from deep value to special situations, he concentrates on shareholder yield. Nothing makes him giddier than a company offering the dividend-buyback-debt paydown virtuous cycle. A graduate of Cornell University and the University of Chicago Law School, Tom is proof that the worst intentions survive the best institutions. He lives with his future husband in Marfa, TX, where he volunteers teaching personal finance and is a Rotarian.less