Mark Boyar is the Founder and Chairman of Boyar Research, Boyar Asset Management and Boyar Value Fund, firms specializing in investing in the equity securities of intrinsically undervalued companies. He began actively managing money in 1975 and launched Boyar Asset Management in 1983. Prior to coming to Wall Street in 1968, he served on the audit staff of PricewaterhouseCoopers. A successful money manager and flexible value investor, Mark speaks frequently on the valuation of corporate assets as well as stock selection. He has been interviewed and quoted regularly in financial publications, has appeared numerous times on the CNBC network, and was a guest on Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser. He also taught a course on mergers and acquisitions at The New School for Social Research.
Since 1975, he has published a monthly research report entitled Asset Analysis Focus (AAF), which identifies and evaluates companies.
In 1987, a group headed by him acquired control of American Corporate, a closed-end fund listed on the Sydney Stock Exchange.
In 1998, he launched his first mutual fund, The Boyar Value fund (BOYAX).
He has spoken at the Cleveland and Milwaukee Societies of Security Analysts, the Chase Exchange, and the SIRE Club.
He has been featured in the Ceil Walzer Memorial Lecture Series at The New School for Social Research, The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association, Inc., Annual Investment Conference, and The New York Bankers Association among others.
He has been featured in Barron's, Business Week, Financial World, Forbes, Money Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.
He has been interviewed in USA Today, The International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times.
He sits on the Investment Committee of Long Island University, which has sole responsibility for selecting advisors that manage the university's Endowment.
He received a BS from C.W. Post College of Long Island University in 1965, and attended Suffolk university Law School in Boston.
Mark Boyar's Affiliations
Federation of Financial Analysts