Buff Dormeier serves as the Chief Technical Analyst at Kingsview Wealth Management.  Previously, he was a Managing Director of Investments and a Senior PIM Portfolio Manager at the Dormeier Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors.

In 2007, Dormeier’s technical research was awarded the prestigious Charles H. Dow Award. Also an award winning author, Buff authored “Investing with Volume Analysis“. Partnering with Financial Times Press, Pearson Publishing and the Wharton School, this book is the only one to win both Technical Analyst’s Book of the Year (2013) and Trader Planet’s top Book Resource (2012) to date.

Buff’s work has also been featured in a variety of national and international publications and technical journals. Now, with Kingsview Wealth Management’s affiliation, Buff’s expertise and proprietary work on technical and volume analysis shall become much more accessible to journalists and other media alike.

As a portfolio manager, Buff was featured in “Technical Analysis and Behavior Finance in Fund Management” – an international book comprised of interviews with 21 PM’s across the world who utilize technical analysis as a portfolio driver. In his new role with Kingsview Wealth Management, Buff’s unique performance driven strategies will be now be available to a wide audience of financial advisors and institutional clientele.

Buff has a Bachelor’s Degree of Science (B.S.) in Business and a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Urban and Regional Planning from Indiana State University.

John Kolovos is Head of Technical Strategy at Macro Risk Advisors. In this role, John is responsible for delivering high-conviction investment insights, identifying tactical trading opportunities, and analyzing cross-asset relationships between stocks, commodities, currencies, and interest rates from across the globe. John has been one of Wall Street’s most sought-after macro-based analysts for over 20 years, working alongside some of the industry’s most legendary investors.

Before joining MRA, John spent the early part of his career at Lehman Brothers and then at International Strategy & Investment (ISI) Group, where he regularly published technical and macro strategy reports to institutional investors in a focused and unbiased manner. Later, John moved to Boston, joining Fidelity Investments as vice president and senior global technical strategist, working side by side with domestic and international portfolio managers.

John is also an adjunct professor at Brandies University, where he teaches a graduate-level course on Technical Analysis and is very active in the technical analysis community by serving on the executive committee as Vice-President for the Charted Market Technicians Association (CMT) as well as sitting on the Governance committee. John is a member of the CFA Society of Boston, a dual CFA and CMT Charterholder, is a frequent guest on CNBC and Bloomberg TV and is widely quoted in the financial press. An avid guitar player and golfer, John is best known for being an integral part of the investment process for those around him by integrating his knowledge and years of experience with systematic processes based on trend, momentum, and relative strength.