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Cynthia Harrington

CFA
Managing Director
Sagespring Associates LLC
Country or state 
United States
Available to 
Global
City 
Los Angeles
Fee 
Languages 
English,
Spanish
Volunteer
Yes

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Bio

Cynthia Harrington, CFA is managing director of Sagespring Associates LLC, a behavioral technology consultancy. Harrington is a prolific writer and speaker in the field of behavioral technology, and a serial entrepreneur with successful companies in technology and investment management. She holds the CFA chartered financial analyst designation, is a behavioral finance consultant, and award-winning journalist. Sagespring Associates develops proprietary measurement tools with niche populations in finance and entrepreneurship; the Candidate Success Package improves outcomes for candidates in the CFA program. She is an Insight Partner working with portfolio manager clients of the groundbreaking behavioral application Essentia Analytics, Ltd. and consultant on investor psychology for digital securities platform issuance, inc. Harrington founded and grew Team (You), Inc., a behavior management program for schools. She has published over 400 articles and two textbooks including the Corporate Finance text for the CFA Program; she was cited as one of the "fifty prominent authority on performance measurement" and won an editor’s award for distinguished article of the year for her piece on “The Value Proposition of Sarbanes Oxley” from Journal of Accountancy. She is a member of the CFA Institute, and a founding member of the Applied Behavioral Finance Group of CFALA and the Global Advisory Council of 100 Women in Finance.

Current position (2)

Managing Director

Sagespring Associates LLC

Senior Consultant

Essentia Analytics Ltd.

Degrees (1)
CFA Charter holder
CFA Institute
1990 to 1993

Presentations

Presentations (3)
Innovate Now to Emerge from the Crisis Even Stronger

This presentation details strategies that increase wellness for professionals and their clients. Harrington managed money through the 1987 and 1999 market crises, and coached clients through 2008 and now 2020. Her perspective on crisis and opportunity is schooled by experience and by the findings of behavioral finance.
Cynthia Harrington, CFA is managing director of Sagespring Associates LLC, a behavioral technology consultancy. As a serial entrepreneur with successful companies in technology and investment management behind her, she holds the CFA chartered financial analyst designation, is a behavioral finance consultant, and award-winning journalist.

Robot, CFA: Staying Relevant in the Day of Robots

How are charterholders incorporating technology today for maximum effect?
1) Technology and behavioral finance
2) Making a career in fintech: what charterholders need to know to be successful. How to join a company, how to found a company in the cutting edge.

Blockchain Today

Blockchain is still in development. Understanding the past and the promise keeps investment professionals current.

Past talks (4)
Being Resilient during Crisis to Emerge Even Stronger
CalALTS
Webinar
CyberCFA: Are You Ready for Fintech?
CFA Society of Edmonton
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
September 19, 2018
Beyond Investing: Use Case Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
Intellisight Conference 2018 CFA Society of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
August 14, 2018
Robot CFA: Staying Relevant
CFA Society of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, CA
September 20, 2018
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Being Resilient to Emerge Even Stronger
Robot CFA: Staying Relevant with the Rise of Machines
Compelling Innovative Behavior Fintech
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Books & Articles (8)

Corporate Finance: A Practical Approach, Second Edition
CFA Institute,
2012
Beyond Belief: Pioneering Behavioral Finance
The Biological Investor: Find the Function of Behavior
Speaking Data Science with Investment Accent
Can Financial Technology Restore Trust?
Code Wed: AI in Operation
Phase in the Crowd: Crowdfunding the new IPO?
Start Your Fingines: Your Fintech Career

Expertise (8)

Business
Leadership
Psychometrics Behavioral Finance behavioral economics FinTech Regulation Crowdfunding Blockchain

Reviews

Testimonials (2)
  • “Cynthia provided a thought provoking presentation on the changes AI will bring to the investment profession. She also shared some great analytics on the personality traits that CFA’s typically demonstrate and how that may help/hinder professionals in adapting to a changing career environment. Time well spent!” WLU Calgary CFA October 2018
    WLU
    Verified
  • Cynthia offered a thought-provoking presentation on Robot, CFA, which triggered a healthy discussion among the audience. It was great to see people with diverging opinions speaking up, making the debate within the presentation very interesting. Cynthia demonstrated being at the cutting edge of how she firmly believes we all be impacted by advances in machine learning and other gravitating factors around investment advisory.
    Tiago Lage, CFA
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