Eric Singer manages the Congressional Effect Fund (CEFFX), a public mutual fund launched 2008 through his registered Investment Advisor, Congressional Effect Management. He was the first to document the general effect of Congress on daily stock prices in an article published in Barron’s in 1992. Since then the idea has attracted additional support and evidence from both the financial and academic communities, and acknowledgement from the academic community about his discovery of this phenomena.
Mr. Singer has been a finance professional for over 25 years. Before starting his mutual fund, his practice focused on raising funds for, and investing in, small cap public companies. During the 1990’s, he was head of Corporate Finance at Gerard Klauer Mattison & Co., a research oriented brokerage firm. In the 1980’s, he launched a corporate finance new products group at Smith Barney, and headed a similar group at PaineWebber. He also practiced law for several years and developed the Empire Hotel in New York City.
He is a frequent op-ed publisher in Investor’s Business Daily as well as Forbes, American Spectator, American Thinker, Townhall, Seeking Alpha and Newsmax, and has appeared on national TV and Radio programs.
He was graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, and Cornell Law School, where he was on Law Review. He is married to Aet Paaro Singer, his wife of 37 years, and has two children.