Armada Hoffler Properties, Inc. announced that Dennis Gartman – renowned investor, economist, and longtime publisher of “The Gartman Letter” – has joined the Company's Board of Directors. He will be the sixth independent member of the Board. Gartman was an economist for Cotton, Inc., where he analyzed supply and demand in the U.S. textile industry. He later moved to NCNB National Bank in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he traded foreign exchange and money market instruments. Subsequently, Gartman became the Chief Financial Futures analyst for A.G. Becker & Company in Chicago, Illinois, and acted as an independent member of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Later, Gartman led the futures brokerage operation at Sovran Bank. Beginning in 1987, he began publishing “The Gartman Letter” which ran continuously through 2019. From 2006-2008, he served as an outside Director of the Kansas City Board of Trade. Gartman currently chairs the Investment/Endowment Committee at the University of Akron Foundation and serves on a similar committee at North Carolina State University.