<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”-60px|auto||auto||” custom_padding=”2px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Director of Content –<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Jason was global Content Director for CFA Institute<\/a> and its 150,000+ investment professionals in 140 countries. His primary responsibility was to stay apprised of finance industry trends and to curate and create content that made CFA Institute’s members smarter and wiser. To this end he researched and authored the investment industry’s first ever I<\/span>nvestment Idea Generation Guide;<\/a><\/em>\u00a0its first scientific research into lie detection, culminating in the publishing of another industry-first\u00a0Lie Detection Guide: Theory and Practice for Investment Professionals<\/em><\/a><\/span>; and finally the industry’s first\u00a0Meditation Guide for Investment Professionals<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n Jason was also the most popular author for CFA Institute’s Enterprising Investor, responsible for millions of page views (1 in 6 of the total) and 40% of comment traffic, despite there being over 300 authors on the platform. His work led to him being quoted in, or interviewed by: Marketplace Morning Report (NPR), the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Institutional Investor, BBC’s Today Programme. Jason was also the lead author for the award-winning white paper, Future State of the Investment Profession<\/span><\/em><\/a> quoted by Blackrock founder, Larry Fink. His work for CFA Institute led to dozens of speaking engagements in over 30 countries. Last, Jason was also the co-developer of and host of cutting-edge video products, such as Beyond Analysis<\/em>,\u00a0Frontiers of Behavioral Finance<\/em>,\u00a0Virtual Link<\/em>, and\u00a0Conference Live<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jason-Apollo-Voss_Akhet-scaled.jpg” title_text=”Jason Apollo Voss Akhet” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”625.5px” custom_margin=”||-92px|||” custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ border_radii=”on|2px|2px|2px|2px” border_width_all=”2px” border_color_all=”gcid-8ad70dfa-3287-4a28-9300-b56e4fa3b11f” global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-8ad70dfa-3287-4a28-9300-b56e4fa3b11f%22:%91%22border_color_all%22%93}” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_horizontal=”-5px” box_shadow_vertical=”5px” box_shadow_blur=”19px” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”2px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Portfolio Management –\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Over the course of his investment career as co-Portfolio Manager of the Davis Appreciation & Income Fund (DAIF) the fund bested the NASDAQ by 77.0%, the S&P 500 by 49.1% and the DJIA by 35.9%.*\u00a0 The DAIF was\u00a0\u00a0regularly ranked in the top decile of its investment category and further it earned a Lipper #1 ranking.\u00a0 The Fund was named a Lipper Leader and was a perennial Morningstar Analyst Pick<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 The DAIF was one of Morningstar’s first ten mutual funds ever given a Stewardship Grade of “A.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Board Member –<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Jason serves on the Framework Reporting Board<\/a> for the Value Reporting Foundation<\/a>, the entity that is the result of the International Integrated Reporting Council<\/a> merging with the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board<\/a> (SASB). Previously he served on the Advisory Board for Quantum Leap Innovations<\/a>; the Mindful Business Conference<\/a>; NuraHealth<\/a>; the Institution Design Group<\/a>; and on the Advisory Board for Clinton Capital Management, a Chicago-based hedge fund.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Sarasota Institute co-Founder –<\/em> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In 2017 Jason co-founded a 21st century think tank, The Sarasota Institute<\/a>, along with globally renowned futurist, David Houle<\/a>, and marketing godfather, Philip Kotler<\/a>. TSI thinks about solutions to the big questions facing the World and the United States. Our focus is on critical topic areas are: technology, public policy, natural resources, marketing & media, intelligence, health care, education, democracy, climate change, and economics. Other members include William Johnson<\/a>, retired president of the NYSE, and Dr. Gerald Zaltman<\/a>, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Books –<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Most recent among Jason’s books is\u00a0Return of the Active Manager: How to apply behavioral finance to renew and improve investment management<\/em><\/a>, a book which MarketPsych’s CEO, Richard L. Peterson said, “Wow! I expected a terrific book from Howard and Voss, but ROAM knocked me back. It\u2019s a once-a-decade genre-defining must-have-on-every-investor\u2019s-bookshelf type of book. Read this and your wealth (and life!) will be wiser and smoother for it.”<\/span><\/p>\n Jason is also author of\u00a0The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth<\/a><\/em> is unique among investment books for its emphasis on the mind’s creative and intuitive functions and was a 2011 Foreword\u00a0Reviews Business & Economics\u00a0Book of the Year finalist<\/a>. Other works by Jason include the investment industry’s first book about coming up with new investment ideas, The Investment Idea Generation Guide<\/a><\/em>. Another industry first is the\u00a0 Lie Detection Guide: Theory and Practice for Investment Professionals<\/em><\/a> to complement analysts’ hard skills when evaluating executive management of prospective investments. Still another is the investment industry’s first meditation guide for investment professionals, written because of meditation’s scientifically proven benefits to overcome stress, improve mental functioning, improve creativity, improve intuition, and help practitioners overcome behavioral biases. Jason is also the co-editor with David T. Larrabee, CFA of Valuation Techniques: Discounted Cash Flow, Earnings Quality, Measures of Value Added, and Real Options<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the Press –\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Voss has given hundreds of press interviews, been cited in, or contributed\u00a0to: the Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/span>, Barron’s, Business Week<\/a><\/span>, Bloomberg<\/a><\/span>, Institutional Investor<\/span><\/a>, Reuters, Money, the Wall Street Transcript, Smart Money<\/a>, Journal of Private Equity<\/a>, Journal of Behavioral Finance<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0public\u00a0radio’s Marketplace Business<\/a><\/span>, the BBC’s Today Programme<\/a><\/span>, Zero Hedge<\/a>, Seeking Alpha<\/a>,\u00a0Morningstar<\/a>, Business Insider<\/a>, U.S. News & World Report,\u00a0Red Herring<\/a><\/span>, Value Line, Blog on Books<\/a><\/span>, AskMen.com<\/a><\/span>, Trust Across America<\/a><\/span>, Cafe Mutual (India)<\/a>, The Globe and Mail<\/a>, Yahoo! Finance<\/a>, etc.\u00a0 You might have seen him on television<\/a><\/span> speaking about the importance of analysis coupled with intuition<\/em> in order to generate excellent investment returns.\u00a0 Or you might have seen one of his pieces written in his previous role as a Forbes Contributor<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking –\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Jason speaks at a number of industry conferences including: the Mindful Business Conference<\/a>; Battle of the Quants<\/a>;\u00a0Fund Forum USA<\/a>; the Morningstar Investment Conference<\/a>;\u00a0the Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing<\/a>; the CFA Institute Annual Conference<\/a>;\u00a0the Indian Association of Investment Professionals<\/a>; the Burridge Conference<\/a>; and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Contributing Author –\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n You may also have read about Jason in other authors’ books, including Patricia Aburdene’s Conscious Money: Living, Creating, and Investing with Your Values for a Sustainable New Prosperity<\/em><\/a>, David Houle’s Entering the Shift Age: The End of the Information Age and the New Era of Transformation<\/em><\/a>, Tom Brakke’s Letters to a Young Analyst: advice and resources for aspiring investment professionals<\/em><\/a>, and Chinhwee Tan and Tom R. Robinson’s Asian Financial Statement Analysis<\/em>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Intuitions –\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Other noteworthy accomplishments include: his October 21, 2004 epiphany in which he realized there was going to be a global recession, a realization that led to his retirement August 19, 2005; and his calling of\u00a0the March 9, 2009 market low just several days\u00a0after the fact<\/a> on his blog.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Education –\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Voss holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and a Masters of Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance and Accounting, from the University of Colorado.\u00a0 Additionally, he is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) as designated by\u00a0CFA Institute.\u00a0Lastly, he has studied the ancient martial art of ninjutsu, and has also taught meditation.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Jason is both a lifelong meditator and conscious capitalist.<\/span><\/p>\n * Results include the effects of dividends and stock splits on total return.\u00a0 Results were calculated based on data published by Yahoo!<\/em> Finance; DAIF ticker symbol is DCSYX and covering the period of September 22, 2000 to August 18, 2005 – the length of Jason Apollo Voss’ tenure as co-portfolio manager of the Davis Appreciation & Income Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jason Apollo Voss is CEO of Deception And Truth Analysis (D.A.T.A.), Inc. which provides deception and truth analysis of almost any document with double-blind scientifically tested accuracy of 88.4% that is 380x faster than pros. Jason was co-portfolio manager of the Davis Appreciation & Income Fund, which bested the S&P 500 by 49.1% during his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Jason Apollo Voss<\/strong><\/em> is CEO of Deception And Truth Analysis (D.A.T.A.), Inc. which provides deception and truth analysis of almost any document with double-blind scientifically tested accuracy of 88.4% that is 380x faster than pros.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/span>\r\n\r\nJason was co-portfolio manager of the Davis Appreciation & Income Fund, which bested the S&P 500 by 49.1% during his tenure, was Lipper #1, and one of the first ten funds awarded Morningstar's Stewardship Grade \"A\". Prior to that he was CEO of Active Investment Management (AIM) Consulting, LLC.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDirector of Content -<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/webwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jason-Apollo-Voss.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nJason was global Content Director for CFA Institute<\/a> and its 150,000+ investment professionals in 140 countries. His primary responsibility was to stay apprised of finance industry trends and to curate and create content that made CFA Institute's members smarter and wiser. To this end he researched and authored the investment industry's first ever I<\/span>nvestment Idea Generation Guide;<\/a><\/em>\u00a0its first scientific research into lie detection, culminating in the publishing of another industry-first\u00a0Lie Detection Guide: Theory and Practice for Investment Professionals<\/em><\/a><\/span>; and finally the industry's first\u00a0Meditation Guide for Investment Professionals<\/em>.<\/span>\r\n\r\nJason was also the most popular author for CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor, responsible for millions of page views (1 in 6 of the total) and 40% of comment traffic, despite there being over 300 authors on the platform. His work led to him being quoted in, or interviewed by: Marketplace Morning Report (NPR), the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Institutional Investor, BBC's Today Programme. Jason was also the lead author for the award-winning white paper, Future State of the Investment Profession<\/span><\/em><\/a> quoted by Blackrock founder, Larry Fink. His work for CFA Institute led to dozens of speaking engagements in over 30 countries. Last, Jason was also the co-developer of and host of cutting-edge video products, such as Beyond Analysis<\/em>,\u00a0Frontiers of Behavioral Finance<\/em>,\u00a0Virtual Link<\/em>, and\u00a0Conference Live<\/em>.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPortfolio Management -\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nOver the course of his investment career as co-Portfolio Manager of the Davis Appreciation & Income Fund (DAIF) the fund bested the NASDAQ by 77.0%, the S&P 500 by 49.1% and the DJIA by 35.9%.*\u00a0 The DAIF was\u00a0\u00a0regularly ranked in the top decile of its investment category and further it earned a Lipper #1 ranking.\u00a0 The Fund was named a Lipper Leader and was a perennial Morningstar Analyst Pick<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 The DAIF was one of Morningstar's first ten mutual funds ever given a Stewardship Grade of \"A.\"<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBoard Member -<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nJason serves on the Framework Reporting Board<\/a> for the Value Reporting Foundation<\/a>, the entity that is the result of the International Integrated Reporting Council<\/a> merging with the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board<\/a> (SASB). Previously he served on the Advisory Board for Quantum Leap Innovations<\/a>; the Mindful Business Conference<\/a>; NuraHealth<\/a>; the Institution Design Group<\/a>; and on the Advisory Board for Clinton Capital Management, a Chicago-based hedge fund.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Sarasota Institute co-Founder -<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nIn 2017 Jason co-founded a 21st century think tank, The Sarasota Institute<\/a>, along with globally renowned futurist, David Houle<\/a>, and marketing godfather, Philip Kotler<\/a>. TSI thinks about solutions to the big questions facing the World and the United States. Our focus is on critical topic areas are: technology, public policy, natural resources, marketing & media, intelligence, health care, education, democracy, climate change, and economics. Other members include William Johnson<\/a>, retired president of the NYSE, and Dr. Gerald Zaltman<\/a>, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBooks -<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nMost recent among Jason's books is\u00a0Return of the Active Manager: How to apply behavioral finance to renew and improve investment management<\/em><\/a>, a book which MarketPsych's CEO, Richard L. Peterson said, \"Wow! I expected a terrific book from Howard and Voss, but ROAM knocked me back. It\u2019s a once-a-decade genre-defining must-have-on-every-investor\u2019s-bookshelf type of book. Read this and your wealth (and life!) will be wiser and smoother for it.\"\r\n\r\nJason is also author of\u00a0The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth<\/a><\/em> is unique among investment books for its emphasis on the mind's creative and intuitive functions and was a 2011 Foreword\u00a0Reviews Business & Economics\u00a0Book of the Year finalist<\/a>. Other works by Jason include the investment industry's first book about coming up with new investment ideas, The Investment Idea Generation Guide<\/a><\/em>. Another industry first is the\u00a0 Lie Detection Guide: Theory and Practice for Investment Professionals<\/em><\/a> to complement analysts' hard skills when evaluating executive management of prospective investments. Still another is the investment industry's first meditation guide for investment professionals, written because of meditation's scientifically proven benefits to overcome stress, improve mental functioning, improve creativity, improve intuition, and help practitioners overcome behavioral biases. Jason is also the co-editor with David T. Larrabee, CFA of Valuation Techniques: Discounted Cash Flow, Earnings Quality, Measures of Value Added, and Real Options<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIn the Press -\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nVoss has given hundreds of press interviews, been cited in, or contributed\u00a0to: the Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, Barron's, Business Week<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, Bloomberg<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, Institutional Investor<\/span><\/a>, Reuters, Money, the Wall Street Transcript, Smart Money<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Journal of Private Equity<\/a>, Journal of Behavioral Finance<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>