EXPERIENCE
40+ years
Wall Street & international experience
Global Approach · Asia Insight · Independent Thinking
Research, advisory
& finance education
Brian Langenberg, CFA combines independent investment research, cross-border M&A and middle-market corporate finance advisory, and finance education. Investment strategy for decision makers, informed by global research and contacts across Asia.
CREDENTIALS
CFA Institute
Charterholder since 1992
Kellogg School of Management
MBA, Finance / Transportation
Saint Norbert College
BA, Economics
MIT Professional Education
Certificate, Agentic AI
Langenberg & Company
Founder
There will always be an analyst with more detail on one company, or an economist with more economic data. None of them combine both, along with contacts across Asia, a track record you can check and no "institutional constraints".
MACRO
80% of GDP
Tracked across 23 countries
COVERAGE
60+ companies
Under active monitoring and analysis
Education Leadership
150% / 75%
One-year growth rates leading a business school and an internship program at two institutions
RESEARCH · ADVISORY · EDUCATION
Three activities, One core.
I research, read and…think. My published research, advisory activity and teaching flow from one stream.
Research
Institutional equity research on transportation and logistics, aerospace, defense, space and selected industrials, supported and informed by macroeconomic analysis across twenty-three countries. Published through Langenberg & Company.
THE RESEARCH PLATFORMAdvisory
Cross-border M&A advisory, business strategy, corporate finance and investor positioning for middle-market company owners and key executives, with transaction execution arranged when appropriate through partnerships across China, Asia, Europe and the US.
HOW MANDATES WORKEducation
Graduate and undergraduate teaching in finance, economics, investments and financial literacy, plus a growing library of course materials that is free for students — my own slides, models and workbooks, not a textbook summary.
STUDENT RESOURCESNetwork · Process · Independence
Why me
Global network
Industry conferences are great. Hundreds of executives, portfolio managers and analysts talking to each other. That is not a network. It is a beehive of current consensus. Direct relationships with corporate managements are a given. My network is global, widely diversified, and it provides insight.
Proprietary research process
Trained in naval intelligence collection. Think outside the box. Geopolitics, national interests and biographies, combined with bottom-up data and intelligence collection, cut through the effluent (“news” flow) and market chatter to identify mismatches between current market prices and reality.
Fierce independence
See my track record. I have the receipts on being early, loud and not backing down. Once frozen out by a “blue chip” for five years — and was right.
Watch · Read · Follow
Insights & media
Market commentary, interviews and teaching clips informed by live research.
CNBC · THE CHINA CONNECTION · JUNE 2025
Can China's COMAC be a competitor to Boeing and Airbus?
What it actually takes to certify, finance and support a commercial airframe at scale — and how long that runway really is.
CNBC · STREET SIGNS ASIA · MARCH 2025
Europe and Taiwan defense stocks stand to gain
Rearmament is a decade-long procurement cycle, not a headline. Where the budget actually lands, and who builds it.
CNBC · AUGUST 2024
The long-term outlook for Boeing is more bearish than people say
Production quality, engineering culture and the balance sheet — why the recovery case rested on assumptions worth questioning.
REUTERS · AUGUST 2025
Caterpillar and the real cost of tariffs
On why the tariff line item tells you less about policy than about how a manufacturer's supply chain is actually built.
CLIENTS & COLLABORATORS
Who I work with
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Institutional investors — I provide research to hedge funds, registered investment advisors and long-only portfolio managers.
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Founder-owned and family businesses — advisory work for owners weighing a sale or recapitalization, succession planning, or simply a business valuation.
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Private equity and strategic acquirers — family offices, sovereign wealth funds and VC- or PE-backed executive teams seeking to sell or buy an asset cross-border.
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Education — I teach finance, banking and investments in both undergraduate and graduate settings, and support career development and business incubator activities.
TEACHING & EDUCATION LEADERSHIP
Everything I teach,
free to whoever needs it.
University students — get your course materials, presentation slides, Excel models and white papers here. Anyone can take them whether you are my student or not.
Parents — teach your children personal finance and stock investing now! Also have learning materials for history and other subjects. Starting to think about college? Never too early to think about the benefits, costs and mapping it out.
Chairs, deans and presidents — find out how I teach, set standards and grow programs.
Let's talk, in confidence.
Whether you are considering a transaction, want a second opinion on one already in progress, or simply want the research — start here.