VALUEWALK - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of Advertising Operations / Investing Media Solutions, LLC
Ben Strubel, a regular contributor to the site, is a graduate of Drexel University with a Master of Business Administration in Investment Management. He is the President and Portfolio Manager of Strubel Investment Management, LLC a registered investment advisor based in Lancaster, PA. Strubel Investment Management provides separate account management services to clients and also publishes The Value Investor's Edge Newsletter. Email: bstrubel@strubelim.com
Job Titles:
- Chief Investment Officer
- Co - Founder
Charles (Chuck) C. Carnevale is the Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of http://edmpinc.org, and has been working in the securities industry since 1970. He has been a partner with a private NYSE member firm, the President of a NASD firm, and a Vice President, Regional Marketing Director for a major American Stock Exchange listed company, and he was an Associate Vice President and Investment Consulting Services Coordinator for a major NYSE member firm. Prior to forming EDMP, Inc., he was a partner in a 30-year-old established registered investment advisory in Tampa, Florida. Chuck holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance from the University of Tampa. Chuck is a sought-after public speaker who is very passionate about spreading the critical message of prudence in money management. Chuck is a veteran of the Vietnam War and was awarded both the Bronze Star and the Vietnam Honor Medal.
Christopher Morris is an extensively published writer on the subjects of technology and finance, among other topics. He is a regular contributor to Yahoo. Christopher is an avid video gamer in his spare time.
Job Titles:
- Chief Analyst for Oilprice.Com
Oil Price: Dr. John C.K. Daly is the chief analyst for Oilprice.com. Dr. Daly received his Ph.D. in 1986 from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. While at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, where he is currently a non-resident scholar, in 199 he founded The Cyber-Caravan, which continues today under the title, The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst. He subsequently served as Director of Programs at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC before joining UPI as International Correspondent.
Duncan MacInnes is a regular contributor to the site, his blog is-kelpie-capital
Duncan works for a large Wealth Manager in the UK, the views expressed on this blog are entirely his own and do not reflect the views of his employer or investment advice. He is a 26-year-old Portfolio Manager who discovered investing after completing law school. Since then, he has added the Investment Management Certificate and completed all three levels of the CFA. In 2012, he will study for The Practical History of Financial Markets at Edinburgh Business School. He has worked in London, Singapore, Edinburgh and currently in Glasgow, UK.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director at RGA Investment Advisors, LLC
Elliot Turner is a Managing Director at RGA Investment Advisors, LLC and founder of Compounding My Interests. Prior to joining RGA, Mr. Turner was a Principal and Managing Director at AustinWeston Asset Management LLC, a value-driven investment management firm, where he specialized in discovering and analyzing long-term investment opportunities and strategic portfolio management.
Mr. Turner's professional asset management career began as a Proprietary Equities Trader at Chimera Securities, LLC, where he developed his own unique trading strategy integrating both fundamental and technical analysis. Mr. Turner then joined T3 Capital Management, LLC to continue his trading career on T3's Equities Desk and to develop the T3Live Blog. From T3, Mr. Turner joined the Wall St. Cheat Sheet, a financial media website specializing in news and analysis on events in the investment and entrepreneurship space. As Managing Editor at the Wall St. Cheat Sheet, Mr. Turner authored numerous columns on investment ideas and philosophies, macroeconomic policies, and trends in technology and innovation. His works and opinions have been published on Yahoo! Finance, TheStreet.com, Marketwatch, Business Insider, and Seeking Alpha. While still at the Wall St. Cheat Sheet, Mr. Turner rejoined Chimera Securities, LLC to manage the firm's first long/short investment portfolio.
Mr. Turner holds a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School, and is admitted to practice law in New York State. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory University where he double majored in Political Science and Philosophy.
Job Titles:
- Founder and CEO of FDR Capital
Fabrice Drouin Ristori is the Founder and CEO of FDR Capital/Goldbroker.com, a company that helps people invest in physical gold and silver and more broadly helps people understand our monetary system.
He is a specialist and investor in the precious metals market since 2008.
Greg Speicher is a private investor who has been investing, studying and writing about the the markets since 2006. Greg built several successful offline businesses including an Inc. 500 Company which he co-founded. Buffett stated, "I am a better investor because I am a businessman." It is in that spirit that Greg brings his years of business experience to investing.
Greg received his B.A. in philosophy Magna Cum Laude from the University of St. Thomas in Rome, Italy, and attended the MBA Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also studied with Bruce Greenwald at the Value Investing Executive Education Course at Columbia University.
Job Titles:
- Content Manager
- Content Manager and Support
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Editor in Chief
- Founder
- Owner
- Founder, and CEO of ValueWalk.Com
Jacob Wolinsky is the founder and CEO of Hedge Fund Alpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund intelligence service. Prior to Hedge Fund Alpha, Jacob started Valuewalk.com, a popular business news site. Prior to that Jacob worked as an equity analyst specializing in mid and small-cap stocks. He lives with his wife and 5 kids in New Jersey.
Job Titles:
- How to Master Your Circle of Competence ( Buffett 's Guide )
Job Titles:
- SVP, Business Development / Investing Media Solutions, LLC
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing a trading program's strategy and mapping it to a market environment and performance driver. He provides analysis of managed futures investment performance and commentary regarding related managed futures market environment. A portfolio and industry consultant, he was an adjunct instructor in managed futures at Northwestern University / Chicago and has written or edited three books, including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade's Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008). Mark was director of the managed futures division at Alaron Trading until they were acquired by Peregrine Financial Group in 2009, where he was a registered associated person (National Futures Association NFA ID#: 0348336). Mark has also worked as a Commodity Trading Advisor himself, trading a short volatility options portfolio across the yield curve, and was an independent consultant to various broker dealers and futures exchanges, including OneChicago, the single stock futures exchange, and the Chicago Board of Trade. He is also Editor, Opalesque Futures Intelligence and Editor, Opalesque Futures Strategies.
Job Titles:
- Editor in Chief
- Senior Editor
- Television News Producer
Michelle Jones was a television news producer for eight years. She produced the morning news programs for the NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spent a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville. She also has experience as a writer and public relations expert for a wide variety of businesses.
Rob Bennett developed the the Valuation-Informed Indexing investing strategy, a strategy that combines the most powerful insights of Vanguard Founder John Bogle and Yale Professor Robert Shiller in a simple approach offering higher returns at greatly diminished risk.
A full bio of Rob is here. He today writes two weekly columns on investing: (1) "Valuation-Informed Indexing", which appears on Tuesdays on Value Walk here.) and; (2) "Investing: The New Rules", at the Death by 1,000 Paper cuts Site, available here.
Job Titles:
- Value Investor and a General Partner
Todd Sullivan is a Massachusetts-based value investor and a General Partner in Rand Strategic Partners. He looks for investments he believes are selling for a discount to their intrinsic value given their current situation and future prospects. He holds them until that value is realized or the fundamentals change in a way that no longer support his thesis.
Vikas Shukla is a business writer. He contributes breaking news and Op-Ed articles about business, finance, investment, Forex, economics and politics on ValueWalk.