Fall 2023 Virtual Presentation

Dr. Oliver Schnusenberg

Oliver Schnusenberg was born in Germany, where he lived until 1989 (two months before the Berlin Wall came down!), when he moved to the U.S. In 1993, he received a B.S. degree in Hospitality Management from Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL. In 1995, he completed my MBA degree with a specification in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1999, he received my Ph.D. in Finance from Florida Atlantic University. He has taught at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and is currently a Earle C. Traynham Endowed Teaching Professor of Finance at the University of North Florida.

His work, which focuses primarily on Behavioral Finance, is published in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Financial Research, Energy Economics, and the Journal of Behavioral Finance. He has co-authored a book entitled Closed-End Funds, Exchange-Traded Funds, and Hedge Funds, which was published by Springer in 2009. In 2014, he obtained the CFP® designation and became the director of UNF's Financial Planning Program in 2016, which he directed until 2019. In 2020, he obtained the Behavioral Financial Advisor (BFATM) designation. He teaches in the Finance and Financial Planning majors at UNF, is a member of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), and was the advisor of the FPA Student Chapter at UNF until 2019. He live in Mandarin with his wife Lynda, who works at the Florida State College of Jacksonville as a simulation lab coordinator, and their two dogs, Roxy and Lacy.