Chief economist and global strategist.
Victor is the founder of La Jolla Economics and the economist behind the thinking that informs how we invest. Trained at MIT and the University of Chicago, he has spent five decades in research, teaching, and portfolio strategy.
Victor A. Canto is the founder of La Jolla Economics. He was previously chief economist at Cadinha & Co. Before that, he served as an advisor to the Lazard Capital Allocator Series, advisor to the Nestegg Funds, trustee of StockJungle.com, and director, chief investment officer, and portfolio manager of Calport Asset Management.
He was also president and director of research of A.B. Laffer, V.A. Canto & Associates.
Dr. Canto was a tenured associate professor of finance and business economics at the University of Southern California (USC) from 1983 to 1985, and an assistant professor there from 1977 to 1983.
He has also taught as a professor at the Universidad Central del Este in the Dominican Republic, as a visiting professor at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and as a visiting professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) during the winter of 1987.
Dr. Canto was a consultant to the Financial Council of Puerto Rico in 1980, an advisor to the Economic Studies Division of the Dominican Republic's Central Bank in 1977, and technical advisor to the Finance Minister of the Dominican Republic in 1975.
Dr. Canto's articles have appeared in many of the leading economic journals. His principal fields of interest are international economics, public finance, and macroeconomics.
He has been published in The Wall Street Journal and Investor's Business Daily, written on energy markets for Public Utilities Fortnightly and the Oil and Gas Journal, and authored a series of articles on portfolio strategy for the Financial Analysts Journal.
He contributed "Exotic Currencies" to The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, published by Macmillan Press in 1992, and was a contributing editor for National Review Online Financial.
Dr. Canto has authored, edited, or co-edited a number of books on economics, policy, and investment strategy.
The landmark.Foundations of Supply-Side Economics
02Monetary Policy, Taxation, and International Investment Strategy
03Supply-Side Portfolio Strategies
04Currency Substitution: Theory and Evidence from Latin America
05Understanding Asset Allocation
06Cocktail Economics
07Economic Disturbances and Equilibrium in an Integrated Global Economy
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