John Albert is a Research Analyst covering financials and REITs for Emerald Investment Advisers and previously for F/m Investments, and was a founding member of Piermont Capital Management, where he was a Senior Portfolio Manager. John has also held roles at Asset Consulting Group, SLP Capital, LLC, and the Financial Valuation Group at Arthur Andersen LLP. John has 25+ years of investment experience and is a Chartered Financial Analyst®. He earned a B.A. in Accounting from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.