HEDGEFOLIOS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Publisher of the Wellington Letter

Bert Dohmen is a serious professional trader, investor, and analyst. You've probably seen him on national TV, on programs like CNBC, Neil Cavuto's show on FoxNews, and CNN, or read his views in Barron's, the Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Business Week, and other publications. As founder of Dohmen Strategies , he has been giving his analysis and forecasts to traders and investors for over 45 years. Bert Dohmen looks behind the scenes of the global investment markets. He analyzes cross-market relationships, global correlations, and especially credit market data, all of which give him superb clues as to what is likely to happen in various markets that are ignored by other analysts. Bert Dohmen has been called "a leading Fed Watcher" by the Wall Street Journal. Federal Reserve Board actions, worldwide politics and economies, along with fundamental and technical analysis give him the important clues. His degree was in chemistry, with minors in physics and math. This made him a natural at reading charts. After beginning to invest for the first time in graduate school, he became unsatisfied with the conventional analysis of earnings, dividends, and other fundamentals, because these were backward-looking data . He was searching for a way to detect where hedge funds and other "smart money" institutions were moving their money today. He discovered an old book in the university library about something called "technical chart analysis." It was a classic, written several decades earlier. He immediately recognized it as what he had been looking for: using volume and price data changes, he could see what was happening now, not what earnings did last year. He understood immediately why the different chart patterns in the markets worked. There was a simple logic that he loved. Thus he can predict a change in the price trend before the news is made public. Bert Dohmen's analysis often goes totally contrary to accepted "Wall Street Wisdom." He is the original Fed Watcher, having made astounding predictions of Federal Reserve policy. He considers Fed policy the most important fundamental factor. Bert says that it isn't easy, however, as he has to anticipate not only what policy should be, but also the mistakes the Fed is likely to make. Bert Dohmen is the publisher of the Wellington Letter, an award-winning investment newsletter with an impressive 45-year record. He is also the author of the #1 best-selling books "Prelude to Meltdown" and "Financial Apocalypse".