Contributors
Azmath Rahiman is a contributor to Cabot’s free e-newsletter, Cabot Wealth Daily.
Mandeep Rai, who has more than 13 years of investing experience, is the editor of Top Stocks Under $10. Working at Weiss Research, Mandeep manages the portfolio of the best-valued lower-priced stocks. He researches and evaluates financial and economic themes and makes decisions on when to buy or sell specific shares for the Top Stocks Under $10 portfolio. He brings a wealth of trading, research and capital markets experience to the Weiss team. Mandeep started his career on Wall Street working on the New York Stock Exchange Trading Floor. Since then, he has earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from University of Florida’s Warrington/Hough School of Business and worked as a stock and credit analyst and helped determine company valuations for private equity and venture capital firms. He led his CFA Chartered Equity Analyst Team to the state finals with their in-depth sell-side style research, with extensive analysis on companies in the specialty retailing space. Mandeep likes new technologies and gadgets, and you can always find him searching for the next best idea and investment opportunities. He enjoys spending time with his family, planning health fairs and volunteers making meals at local outreach organizations. Mandeep resides in Jupiter, Fla., with his wife and three children.
Robert Rapier is the editor of The Energy Strategist. Robert is no armchair analyst—he has two decades of in-the-trenches experience in a wide range of fossil fuel and biofuel technologies, including refining, natural gas production, gas-to-liquids, ethanol production and butanol production. In all, Robert has spent more than a dozen years working on liquid fuels technologies. Along the way he’s picked up five patents, including one for a breakthrough way to convert ethane into ethylene (U.S. Patent 7,074,977). Robert earned his master of science in chemical engineering and a bachelor of science in chemistry and mathematics (double major) at Texas A&M University. A prolific writer, Robert’s articles have appeared in Forbes, The Washington Post and the Christian Science Monitor. His new book, Power Plays: Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil (Apress, 2012), helps investors sort through doom and gloom, hype and misinformation to understand the true costs, benefits and trade-offs for each of our major energy options.
Mike Burnick brings a wide range of experience in the financial services industry to Weiss Research . With over 25-years of professional investment experience, he was a Registered Investment Adviser and portfolio manager responsible for the day-to-day operations of a mutual fund. Mike joined Weiss Research in 2002 as an analyst and writer, and in 2008 was named Director of Research and Client Communications at Weiss Capital Management, where he assisted managing the day-to-day asset-allocation and trading responsibilities for a $5 million ETF strategy. Formerly, Mike served as Director of Research for the Sovereign Society and in the role of senior editor. His responsibilities included analysis of global financial markets and economic trends focusing on global ETF and options investing. At present, Mike serves as Manager of Investment Services for Weiss Research, Chief Investment Strategist for the Extreme Profit Hunter service, and is a regular contributor to the firm’s daily e-newsletter, Money and Markets. Mike is a graduate of Stetson University with bachelor’s degrees in both finance and management. He is a frequent guest commentator on CNBC, Fox Business News, Bloomberg TV, and nationally syndicated financial talk radio programs.
John Reese, founder of Validea.com, is the author of The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History’s Best Investment Strategies and a regular columnist for RealMoney.com and Forbes.com. He is also the founder of Validea Capital Management, a money management firm for high net worth individuals and institutions, and he advises two Canada-based mutual funds (Omega Consensus American & International Equity Funds). John holds a Master’s of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ben Reynolds is the founder of Sure Dividend. Sure Dividend systematically finds the best high quality dividend growth stocks for long-term investors with The 8 Rules of Dividend Investing. Thousands of investors (both individual and professional) use The 8 Rules to invest in great dividend paying businesses for the long run.
Richard Rhodes is the founder of Rhodes Capital Management and co-founder of The CoffeeTree Fund LP. He serves as investment strategist and portfolio manager for RCM clients and for The CoffeeTree Fund LP. Prior to launching these entities, Mr. Rhodes spent years in international corporate finance From 1994 to 1999, he served as the Financial Director of the Moscow-based corporate consulting group, Center for Business Skills Development. Thereafter, he served as on WorldCom’s Strategic and Capital Planning teams before launching The Rhodes Report newsletter and Rhodes Capital Management, Inc. Mr. Rhodes graduated from the University of Houston with a BA in Russian Studies, and holds an international MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management with an emphasis on Russian language, international finance and accounting.
ValueTrend Wealth Management founder and owner Keith Richards has been in the securities industry since 1990. He is an author and popular media personality, often appearing on TV’s Business News Network, and writing for the Globe and Mail and for Investors Digest. He has been critical of the commission-based, follow-the-pack approach to investing—where brokers succeed regardless of performance. An experienced retail investment advisor, he had long recognized the advantages possible if he ventured beyond a bank’s limited investment menu and went forward independently—answering only to his clients on the basis of service quality.
Ron Rowland is the editor and publisher of All Star Fund Trader, a subscription-based investment newsletter that has garnered long-term performance accolades from Hulbert’s Investment Digest for more than 20 years. He is also the founder of www.InvestWithAnEdge.com, the critically acclaimed ETF review website where he publishes his monthly ETF Deathwatch. Additionally, Mr. Rowland runs his own money management firm, Capital Cities Asset Management, located in Austin, Texas. Mr. Rowland edits the International ETF Trader and is a weekly contributor to Money and Markets for Weiss Research. He is a member of the Forbes Investment Team and has his ETF reviews published on SeekingAlpha and TheStreet. He is also a board member of the National Association of Active Investment Managers and is the chairperson of the Active Fund Index committee.
Briton L. Ryle has helped individual investors protect and grow their wealth since 1998. He succesfully navigated the Internet bubble (1998-2000), the ensuing Internet crash (2000-2001), the jobless recovery (2003-2004), the housing bubble (2004-2007), the financial crisis (2008-2009), and the recovery (2009 to the present). Briton recommended Petrochina at $20 a share, six months before Warren Buffett bought in. He kept his readers out of bank stocks during the financial crisis of 2008. And he advised readers to load up on oil stocks (like Gulfport (NASDAQ: GPOR) at $1.50) in spring of 2009. Briton makes use of fundamental analysis, technical analysis, and good old-fashioned horse sense to help individual investors grow their wealth. He’s a firm believer that hard work and thorough research leads to investment success. Briton is a contributor for the Wealth Daily e-Letter and serves as research assistant for The Wealth Advisory income advisory.
Sadoff Investment Management is an independent investment advisory firm registered with the SEC. The three-member investment team has over 70 years of combined investment experience during all types of markets. Ronald founded Ronald Sadoff’s Major Trends in 1978 (now known as Sadoff Investment Management LLC). Previously, Ronald gained financial and investment industry experience working as an institutional investment and research strategist. Bryan joined the firm in 1997 as an investment advisor after working at the Bank of Montreal and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Michael joined the firm as an investment advisor in 2000. Previously, Michael was a senior financial analyst at Norwest/Wells Fargo and Green Tree Financial Corporation.
As the editor and publisher of The No-Load Fund Investor since 2003 and of The Investor’s ETF Report since 2006, Mark Salzinger writes or oversees all the content in the newsletters. He alone decides which no-load mutual funds and ETFs to recommend and put into one or more of the newsletters’ Best Buys model portfolios. For a decade, Mr. Salzinger served as executive editor of Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street and Louis Rukeyser’s Mutual Funds, where he worked closely with Louis Rukeyser to provide expert, unbiased investment guidance to hundreds of thousands of investors. Mark is also the chief investment officer of Salzinger Sheaff Brock, LLC, a full-service money-management firm he co-founded in April 2009 for investors seeking expert portfolio management using mutual funds and ETFs.
Steve Savage is a managing partner of Litman/Gregory Asset Management LLC. In addition to overall business management responsibilities, he directly oversees the research publishing operations, including AdvisorIntelligence and the No-Load Fund Analyst. Mr. Savage joined Litman/Gregory in 1999, became a partner in 2003, and became a managing partner in 2010. Prior to joining Litman/Gregory, he founded and served as executive director of both Value Line’s mutual fund research and electronic publishing divisions. He is recognized in the national media for his industry expertise, and has over 25 years of experience in mutual fund and investment research.
Zachary Scheidt is the Editor of Taipan’s New Growth Investor and Velocity Trader, two of Taipan Publishing Group’s financial research newsletters. He is able to draw on his decade of experience as a hedge fund manager to determine which companies would be the most profitable to invest in. Mr. Scheidt’s experience has given him the skills to manage sizeable investments for a number of private investment partners and develop advanced investment strategies to make the highest returns possible. Zach Scheidt is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder.
Ned W. Schmidt, CFA, CEBS, has more than thirty years of experience as a value oriented investment manager and researcher. His investment activities have included management of $3.5 billion of discretionary portfolios serving individuals and retirement plans. Mr. Schmidt was for many yeas the value editor for the Global Advisor published in Toronto, and successfully managed an offshore mutual fund for that firm. The third edition of his major Gold report, $1,265 GOLD, published in 2003, has been read around the world. He was also a long time Adjunct Professor of Finance at Nova Southeastern University.
Andreas Schreyer is a founder and editor of The Green Investor. A longtime investor and student of the markets, Mr. Schreyer has been a financial newsletter editor since 2003. At Fraser Partners, the publisher of the TimingCube, TradeGuru, and ETFTide investment services, he authored the acclaimed Trend Timing School editorials and the Weekly Updates since their inception. He continues as a partner at Fraser Partners and MARKETTREND Advisors, a full service S.E.C registered investment advisory firm, where he is still active. In addition to his investment background, Mr. Schreyer has over 30 years of experience in the electronics, computer and software industries. He also served in executive management positions at a number of start-up companies such as Internet Dynamics and Globeset before moving to the financial investment newsletter sector.
Over his 17-year career in the equity investment field, Richard Segarra has dedicated himself to developing new and creative ways to improve the investment decision-making process. Since joining Ford Equity Research in 1995, Mr. Segarra has been responsible for the database and all published research. His major accomplishments include the development of robust equity models (including the Value/Momentum model) and substantial increases in company coverage, data item coverage and update frequency of the Ford database. Mr. Segarra is a frequent contributor to articles for the financial press. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Chapman University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of San Diego.
Daniel Alan Seiver is a Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at Miami University (Ohio) where he taught from 1978 to 2005. He is currently a Lecturer in Finance at San Diego State University. Seiver’s academic research has been published in leading economics journals including the American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), the International Economic Review, and the Review of Income and Wealth. He is the author of Outsmarting Wall Street (3rd edition, 1994), the basis for the PAD System. Seiver’s comments on financial markets and the economy have been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Money, Business Week, and many other financial and online publications. He has been a Guest Market Monitor on the PBS program Nightly Business Report. Seiver received his BA and his PhD in Economics from Yale.
Mr. Selesky covers the Basic Materials sector for Argus. He has worked in the investment business for over 15 years, including positions as a senior equity analyst for firms such as Palisade Capital Management, PaineWebber/Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management and John Hsu Capital Group. He has provided coverage on groups including Consumer Staples, Consumer Discretionary, Energy, Media, Transportation, Gaming, and Utilities. At PaineWebber, he also served as part of a team that managed $9 billion in active equity products. Prior to working in the investment field, Mr. Selesky spent eight years as a credit analyst at American Express Company and five years as an analyst at Equifax Services. Bill has a Masters of Business Administration degree in Investment Finance from Pace University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Fordham University.
Joseph L. Shaefer retired as a Senior VP of Charles Schwab to found Stanford Wealth Management and to speak and write on investment subjects. He is a retired USAF Brigadier General and the author of the investment classic, “Bringing Home the Gold.” Mr. Shaefer has been interviewed on FNN, Fox, CNBC, ABC and other financial television shows and has been quoted in Forbes, The Wall Street Transcript, Barrons, Financial World and scores of other publications.
Benjamin Shepherd is a recognized exchange traded fund (ETF), mutual fund and stock expert with an extensive background analyzing time-tested funds, their management and investment strategies which have proven themselves in both bull and bear markets. Ben is editor of Global Investment Strategist, which examines top-performing investments in Brazil, Russia, India, China, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, and other rising economic powers. He’s also editor of Benjamin Shepherd’s Wall Street, born from his years learning from famed investment guru Louis Rukeyser and subsequently serving as editor of Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street and Louis Rukeyser’s Mutual Funds.
Jeff Siegel is the managing editor of the Power Portfolio, an independent investment research service focusing primarily on renewable energy and organic and natural food markets. Mr. Siegel also works as a consultant, has been a featured guest on Fox, CNBC and Bloomberg Asia, and is the author of the best-selling book, “Investing in Renewable Energy: Making Money on Green Chip Stocks.”
Brad Simmerman is Senior Analyst and Editor of Cabot Wealth Daily, the award-winning free daily advisory.
Mark Skousen, Ph. D., editor of Forecasts & Strategies, is a nationally known investment expert, economist, university professor and author of more than 25 books. In July 2018 Dr Skousen was awarded the inaugural Triple Crown in Economics for his work in economic theory, history and education, and has been identified as one of the 20 most influential living economists (Amazon.com).
Dennis Slothower is a veteran financial analyst, widely read author, popular speaker, and the editor of Stealth Stocks. Mr. Slothower is consistently ranked as one of the top investment advisors by many different tracking services and has earned a reputation as one of the America’s most consistently successful financial strategists. After earning a degree from Brigham Young University, Mr. Slothower spent many years as a commodities trader for one of Wall Street’s largest investment firms. He is now a renowned authority on the use of cyclical and technical indicators, and has lectured at financial conferences and seminars across the country since 1987. In addition, he has counseled thousands of investors and his views are quoted by major financial publications throughout the country.
Ross L. Smotrich joined Barclays Capital in September 2008 and is currently a managing director and senior research analyst following the real estate investment trust and real estate securities sectors. Previously, he had joined Lehman Brothers in June 2008 after 10 years as a senior managing director at Bear Stearns, following four years as a senior equity analyst at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Smotrich has ranked in the Institutional Investor’s “All-America Research Team” survey five times and has twice been named to The Wall Street Journal’s “All-Star Analysts” survey (earnings forecasting). Before moving to sell-side research, Ross was a real estate banker for Chemical Bank doing lending, investment banking and workout. He earned an MBA from Columbia University in finance/real estate and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in diplomatic history/international economics.
Andrew Snyder is the Editorial Director of Insiders Strategy Group and Editor of Unconventional Wealth. Mr. Snyder entered the world of finance as an advisor working with one of the nation’s largest investment firms. He specialized in handling the vast portfolios of wealthy clients, where he excelled at making them even wealthier. In the years since getting on the inside of the industry, Mr. Snyder earned his MBA, published an award-winning book and has been published in numerous publications--with over 1,500 articles and columns in his name. He has also appeared on Fox News and other media outlets.