Dr. Randall S. Guttery, FIREL, COBA, UNT

I am a faculty member in the FIREL Department in the College of Business at the University of North Texas.

I have been the Certified Financial Planning Program Director for UNT since 1994.

UNT's CFP Program
Click here to learn more about UNT's registered CFP program with the CFP Board of Standards. You may send electronic mail to me at guttery@unt.edu. You may telephone me directly at USA (940) 565-3073 or fax me messages at 940-565-4234.

Education
I was educated at the following universities:

University of Texas, BBA in Finance (1982)
Louisiana State University, MS in Finance (1991)
University of Connecticut, PhD in Finance (1994)

Teaching Interests

I teach classes related primarily to real estate, both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. In particular, I teach Real Estate Finance, Real Estate Valuation and Appraisal, Principles of Real Estate, Real Estate Investments, and Personal Financial Planning.

The Real Estate Principles classes cover topics related to legal and governmental issues, time value of money and compound interest, investments, finance and mortgage lending, and property valuation and appraisal. Each of the other real estate classes dedicates an entire semester to these topics.

The financial planning class covers topics related to comprehensive financial planning for clients, including an introduction to financial planning, insurance needs, investment analysis, retirement and employee benefits, estates and trusts, and income tax planning.

To accomodate our students who work either part-time or full-time, most of my courses are offered one night per week from 6:30 to 9:30pm. Currently, only FINA 4610, the financial planning class, is offered during the day.

Professional Research Interests

I am interested in researching the following areas:

Creating constant-quality indexes for both single-family and multi-family housing, the securitization of commercial real estate mortgages, real estate derivative assets (e.g., CMOs, IOs, POs, and inverse floaters), environmental issues that affect real estate values, and brokerage agency conflicts.

Click here to see Dr. Guttery's interview on FOX Ch. 4 (March 7, 2004) about FM 2499.

Click here to see Dr. Guttery's interview on National News on recent Credit Card Security Breach (June 20, 2005). The download will take about 3 minutes.

Dr. Guttery's interview on PBS
The 30 minute episode deals with Contemporary Eminent Domain Issues (Sept. 4, 2005).

Service Interests
I serve in the following capacities to serve the Department, the College, the University, our community, and my profession.

Certified Financial Planner ( CFP) Program Director, FIREL Department, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Certified Financial Planner ( CFP) Program Director, Professional Development Institute (PDI), Denton, Texas
Member, Capital Improvements Committee,City of Highland Village, TX