Hello, my name is Daniel A. Barnes.  I am the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Barnes Capital LLC, a fee-only Registered Investment Advisor.

My experience prior to founding Barnes Capital included: fixed-income account management, equities analyst on the Buy-side and Sell-side, CFO of a start-up, senior associate of a medium size investment advisory firm and bank and hedge fund operations.

I am hard to pigeon hole.  In January 1990, 8 weeks after the Berlin Wall fell,  I sold my car and bought a one-way ticket to Vienna.   I mastered German, completing a Masters thesis depicting how social insurance was introduced following a decade of federal failures at railroad nationalization.  I largely adapted to German life, started a family and worked in the institutional bond market. This independent path supported a habit of free and unfettered thinking on financial, economic and social issues.  Ultimately, after operations and experience as an Analyst on both sides of Wall Street, I was drawn to the investment advisory business because I wanted to work one-on-one with individual clients.

My ability to think creatively about a client’s financial situation and my passion to deliver customized, high touch client service, are key to Barnes Capital’s ability to meet and exceed our client’s goals.

Daniel A. Barnes, CFA

Education
Daniel holds the designation of Charter Financial Analyst (CFA). He is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of San Francisco. Although many financial professionals hold credentials, none of those credentials is more rigorous or requires a greater breadth of investment knowledge than the CFA designation, which Daniel completed in 2002.
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Daniel received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1989. He moved to Budapest and then Munich in 1990.  Daniel completed a Master of Arts in Political Science and History from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in 1995.

His hobbies include cooking, boardgames, Argentine Tango and time abroad.  He has a large old dalmatian named Jazz and a teenage daughter and son.