Founder, Managing Partner & CIO, The Bahnsen Group
David L. Bahnsen is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, a national private wealth management firm with offices in Newport Beach, New York City, Bend, Nashville, Minneapolis, Austin, Phoenix, West Palm Beach, Dallas, and Grand Rapids. The firm manages more than $9 billion in client assets.
Prior to launching The Bahnsen Group, David spent eight years as a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and six years as a Vice President at UBS. He is consistently recognized among the nation’s top financial advisors by Barron’s, Forbes, and the Financial Times.
A frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, and Fox Business, David is also a regular contributor to National Review. He hosts the popular weekly podcast, Capital Record, which focuses on the defense of free enterprise and capital markets, and publishes a widely read weekly macroeconomic commentary at DividendCafe.com.
David is a founding Trustee of Pacifica Christian High School of Orange County and serves on the Boards of Directors of the Acton Institute, National Review, and Hightower Advisors.
He is the author of several bestselling books, including:
Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It (2018)
The Case for Dividend Growth: Investing in a Post-Crisis World (2019)
There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths (2021)
Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life (2024)
Outside of his professional work, David is passionate about USC football, the financial markets, and politics. Above all, he values his family—his wife of 24 years, Joleen, and their three children, Mitchell, Sadie, and Graham—and the life they have built together on both coasts.
