Raymond U. Ogums has worked for a number of institutional asset-management firms, including Barings Asset Management LLC, State Street Corporation, JPMorgan Chase & Co. He has also served as an adjunct professor at colleges local to the Springfield Massachusetts area, including Bay Path University, Western New England University and American International College. His studies have concentrated in financial economics, and he earned a DBA from the University of Phoenix, where his research focused on both the changing proportion of working retirees and the mix of factors that cause retirees to work. He also earned an MBA from Western New England University and graduated a business economics major at the University of New Haven. Dr. Ogums also follows global economic and financial news and works on finance and investment research for publication in the academic journals.