Nicole joined Comstock Valuation Advisors, Inc. in 2006 as a Valuation Associate.  Prior to joining ComStock, Nicole spent over six years as an analyst for A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. in St. Louis , MO.  

While at A.G. Edwards, Nicole held positions in the Futures Department and the Trust Company.  As a bond and foreign currency futures analyst, she published research reports and provided trade recommendations to brokers and their clients.  And as a quantitative analyst in the Trust Company, she performed variance analysis studies and calculated total returns for client portfolios, researched bankruptcy reorganization plans, and analyzed proxy ballots and made voting recommendations to the Proxy Committee.

Nicole is also a former finance instructor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and a former adjunct professor of economics at McKendree College in Lebanon , IL . 

Nicole graduated Summa Cum Laude from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with her Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Finance in 1999, and then with her Master of Science degree in Economics and Finance in 2001.  As a graduate student, she co-authored “Inflation and Output as Predictors of Stock Returns and Volatility: International Evidence.”  Applied Financial Economics 13:9 (2003): 693–700.

Currently, Nicole is pursuing her Master of Accounting degree from Keller Graduate School of Management.  She has passed two levels of the CFA program, and hopes to achieve the full CFA designation and obtain a CPA.

 Nicole holds her Series 3 futures broker license, and she is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of St. Louis.