Dan Bott:
CLASS OF 1967
South Gate High SchoolClass of 1967
South gate, CA
Dan's Story
Many of my friends knew me as a true car nut. After High School and while going to college I worked as associate editor of Popular Hot Rodding magazine and then built a few race cars while writing for a number of popular car magazines. I eventually followed my brothers involvement in the financial services industry and became an investment consultant. Below is my 40 plus year professional career history. I still love cars and in fact anything that has an engine, I have an airplane and live on an airport community and have owned boats for the past 30 years with a cruiser in Lake Powell. For more about our race program go to BottMotorsports.com
Daniel R. Bott Sr. CIMC Professional Bio:
Dan Bott is a First Vice President with of "The Bott Group" at Merrill Lynch in Scottsdale, AZ. Formerly associated Senior Institutional Consultant at Wachovia Securities and Managing Director - Investment Officer of Bott & Associates Investment Consulting Group of Wachovia Securities. Bott & Associates based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Our practice consults over one half billion in client assets and services a selective list of retainer clients that include a growing list of employee benefit plans, charitable organizations and high net worth individuals. Bott & Associates has extensive experience in working with plan fiduciaries as a fee based fiduciary consultant, offering procedural policy consulting, cost study analysis and peer performance analysis. Over the past 40 years he has performed over 1000 investment manager reviews. His practice is currently focused on a growing their list of clients that require performance analysis, access and guidance to fiduciary analytical tools and access to best of breed Emerging Managers.
Dan's investment career spans over 44 years, he was formally Senior Vice President & Consulting Group Director within the Consulting Group Division at Smith Barney, Inc. In 1985 it was his vision that convinced management at Dean Witter to offer access to best of breed independent investment managers. Dan was the product manager and department head that was responsible for the initial start-up of what is now the third largest fee based managed account program on Wall Street, currently operating as Morgan Stanley. His formal investment career began in March of 1975 with Kidder Peabody in Newport Beach, California where he managed a research based institutional clientele.
Dan Bott is a highly recognized industry leader, speaker and author; he is directly and indirectly resp...Expand for more
onsible for training more financial professionals than any one individual in the profession of investment management consulting through the two organizations that he began. He was Co-founder of the Investment Management Consultants Association in 1985 and in 1988 he was founder of and now Chairman Emeritus of the Institute for Certified Investment Management Consultants (IIMC). He is one of the first listed in the Who's Who of investment management consulting and is the first in the U.S. to be recognized as a Certified Investment Management Consultant (CIMC) by the Institute Investment Management Consultants.
In 1994, Dan was the subject of a major cover story in Financial Planning on Wall Street, titled¿The Prophet of a New Wall Street¿, dealing with the conversion of brokers from commissions to fee based compensation. In 1998, Dan was featured as one of the top 10 Wall Street advisors in the U.S. by¿ON Wall Street Magazine¿, as voted by his peers. For years, while promoting the IIMC, Dan authored a monthly column in the Registered Rep magazine on Managed Money and he authored the first book written on fees in lieu of commissions, "Wrap Account Investment Advisor", published by Dow Jones Irwin in 1993. Dan just finished his second book on the subject ¿The Art & Science of Investment Management Consulting¿ which is considered the industries definitive book on the subject. Dan has been acknowledged as the one of the brokerage industry¿s most influential individuals in reshaping the broker culture from a commission based business to a fee based business. He led this change many years before Wall Street executives realized that this would become the fastest growing area of their firm¿s business, as it is today.
Dan is a native of Southern California, where he received his marketing and communications BA degree at California State University at Fullerton. During Dan's college years he was an accomplished photojournalist with over 100+ stories published in national automotive magazines. Dan lives with his wife, Judy, of 30 years and their airplane on a private airport community in Carefree Arizona. He is an instrument rated pilot, a car enthusiast and loves just about anything that has an engine.
Dan's son joined the practice full time June 2005 after graduating from Arizona State University with honors from the School of Business. Dan and his son tour a drag racing program nationwide, visit the website at :bottmotorsports.com for more details of the story and race results.
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