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Sam Burns is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Mill Street Research, a boutique investment research and consulting firm providing high quality, independent global portfolio research. Burns is a renowned market strategist with over 25 years of experience in financial markets and investment research. He provides expert analysis and commentary to institutional buy-side clients globally, with focus in top-down, macro, and quantitative research on global economics, equity markets, sectors, styles, and stock selection processes. Prior to founding Mill Street, Burns worked as a senior strategist at leading firms on Wall Street, including Oppenheimer & Co., Brown Brothers Harriman, State Street Global Advisors, and Ned Research.

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EARLY CAREER & EXPERTISE

Burns was an Institutional Portfolio Strategist at Oppenheimer & Co., where he was a principal architect of a suite of quantitatively driven research publications.
At Brown Brother Harriman, he was also Head of Thematic Strategy and Asset Allocation.
He was a Senior Equity Strategist at SSGA, where he developed, wrote and marketed institutional research and studies.
At Ned Davis, he worked with NDR's Global Equity Strategist to develop and maintain institutional research for clients.
He started his career as an assistant market strategist at J.C. Bradford & Co. before earning his MBA at the University of Texas, Austin.
He is skilled in idea generation, data analysis, and modeling, writing and presenting commentary, and extensive interaction with institutional buy-side clients.
Skills include idea generation, data analysis and modeling, writing and presenting commentary, and extensive interaction with institutional buy-side clients.

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Burns has been featured at Business Wire, Reuters, Blockworks, Business Insider, and more.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.

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