Bio

David Snowball is the Publisher, Co-Founder & Lead Writer for Mutual Fund Observer. He covers Mutual Funds and can be reached via email. David Snowball, PhD, is a professor, professor of communication studies, director of the Austin E Knowlton Honors Program and holder of the Stuart Lee and Virginia Talbott Harbour Endowed Chair at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. Augustana is a nationally-recognized college of the liberal arts and sciences, founded in 1860. David’s teaching portfolio at the college includes: · Advertising and Consumer Culture · Propaganda in the 20th Century · Communication and Emerging Technologies · Business and Professional Communication · Historiography For a quarter century, David competed in academic debate and coached college debate teams to over 1500 individual victories and 50 tournament championships. When he retired from that research-intensive endeavor, his interest turned to researching fund investing and fund communication strategies. David served as the closing moderator of Brill’s Mutual Funds Interactive (a Forbes “Best of the Web” site). From 2006-2011, he was the Senior Fund Analyst at FundAlarm and author of over 200 fund profiles. His monthly column was read by around 5000 people. In 2011, he and Cheryl Welsch (a/k/a “Chip,” Chief Information Office at the Eastern Iowa Community College District and MFO’s technical director) launched the Mutual Fund Observer. Mutual Fund Observer, a non-commercial site and non-profit corporation, focuses on smaller and newer funds, often from boutique advisers, and on the issues challenging individual investors, draws 15,000 - 25,000 readers a month. David, Cheryl and his son Will live in Davenport, Iowa. His work has been cited in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The New York Times, Investment News, Business Week, Bottom Line: Personal, Fund Intelligence, and, on the web, at Motley Fool, MSN Money, CBS Marketwatch and elsewhere.