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Vitaliy was born and raised in Murmansk, Russia (the home for Russia’s northern navy fleet, think Tom Clancy’s Red October).  He immigrated to the US from Russia in 1991 with all his family.

His professional career is easily described in one sentence:  “I invest, I educate, I write, and I could not dream of doing anything else”.  Vitaliy often holds contrarian views that are ahead of his time that usually with time passed turn into mainstream views, such as his views on the Chinese real estate bubble.

Vitaliy is the Chief Investment Officer at Investment Management Associates, Inc (IMA), a value investment firm based in Denver, Colorado.  After receiving his graduate and undergraduate (cum laude) degrees in finance from the University of Colorado at Denver, and acquiring the CFA designation, he wanted to keep learning.  Figuring the best way to learn is to teach, Vitaliy first taught an undergraduate class at the University of Colorado at Denver and later a graduate investment class at the same university that was designed based on his day job.

Vitaliy has written articles for the Financial Times, Barron’s, BusinessWeek, New York Post, Forbes.com, and Institutional Investor among others. He was profiled in Barron’s, and has been interviewed by Value Investor Insight, Welling@Weeden, BusinessWeek, BNN, CNBC, and countless radio shows.  Vitaliy is author of the highly acclaimed book “The Little Book of Sideways Markets” (Wiley, 2010) and Active Value Investing (Wiley, 2007).