The following are profiles of the financial advisors quoted in this Special Report on Alternative Energy sponsored by editor Steven Halpern, of TheStockAdvisors.com.
- Paul Tracy founded StreetAuthority.com and became the firm's Chief Investment Strategist in 2001. Prior to that he spent several years as Managing Editor at a multi-million dollar financial publishing firm with over 150,000 subscribers. In addition to his role as managing editor and lead financial writer, he was also responsible for equity research and managing a team of seasoned professional financial writers, researchers and market commentators.
Paul's previous experience includes a position at Robert W. Baird & Co.'s full-service brokerage operations as well as economic research work on a Money and Banking project funded by the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has also spent time doing outside consulting and research for the University of Virginia, has appeared as a guest expert on several prominent financial radio shows, and has been a featured speaker at various investment conferences across the U.S.
Paul graduated with a B.S. in Finance and Management from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.
- Neil J. George is an investor, philanthropist and professor. He's editor of Personal Finance, Inner Circle, www.neilsinnercircle.com, The Yield Letter and Pay Me Weekly and he's co-editor of the new journal, The Partnership. After years as an insider in the bond and banking communities, Neil now focuses his full attention on offering solid advice to individual investors - his only agenda is serving his readers and subscribers. Among his many accomplishments, Neil recently retired as Chief Economist of a New York-based money management and affiliated brokerage company. He also served as Chief Economist at several institutions, including Mark Twain Bank, Mercantile Bank and British-based Guinness Flight. He has also worked on six different continents analyzing the world's markets and economies. Neil earned an undergraduate degree in economics from Kings College and a master's degree in international finance from Webster University in Europe. Neil has established himself as a respected economist, market sage and advocate to the individual investor. He's not only a sought-after speaker at investment conferences, but he's also a contributor to the world's most watched financial networks including CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg. His perspectives are regularly featured in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Money, BusinessWeek and Barron's. He appears regularly on CNNfn, CNBC and Bloomberg.
- Harry Domash publishes the Winning Investing, www.winninginvesting.com, stock and mutual-fund advisory newsletter, the Dividend Detective Web site for dividend investors and writes an online investing column for the San Francisco Chronicle. Domash has two investing books out, the most recent being "Fire Your Stock Analyst," published by Financial Times Prentice Hall.
- Tobin Smith is the founder and editor of ChangeWave Investing, www.changewave.com. He also serves as executive editor of ChangeWave MicroCap Investor, and contributes his weekly market outlook and editorial rants to ChangeWave's WaveWire e-letter, which is read by more than 250,000 investors each week.
Since 2000, Mr. Smith has served as a contributing market analyst for the Fox News Channel and currently co-stars on "Bulls & Bears," cable television's No. 1 rated investment program. He is a frequent guest expert on Fox News "Your World With Neil Cavuto" and "Fox & Friends" programs and is heard frequently on many nationally syndicated investment talk radio programs. Toby has also appeared on CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg TV, CBS Radio and other leading media outlets.
Since 1980, Toby has delivered more than 1,000 speeches on how to put your money on the winning side of change. In 1995, he became vice president and group publisher of Phillips International. As vice president, Toby launched the company's Interactive Media Group where he refined the investment strategies and approaches featured in the flagship service Change- Wave Investing.
- Elliott H. Gue is editor of The Energy Letter, a bi-weekly e-letter as well as editor of The Energy Strategist, a premium bi-weekly newsletter on the energy markets. Mr. Gue is also associate editor for Personal Finance, www.pfnewsletter.com, where he contributes his knowledge of the energy markets.
Mr. Gue has a Master's of Finance degree from the University of London and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Management from the University of London, graduating in the top 3 percent of his class. Mr. Gue was the first American student to ever complete a full degree at that university.
- Stephen Leeb has 25+ years of investment experience with a focus on growth stocks. Editor of The Complete Investor, www.completeinvestor.com. Former editor of Personal Finance, one of the most widely read financial newsletters with over 100,000 subscribers. Author of five books - most recent, The Oil Factor (Warner Books, 2004). Defying the Market (McGraw-Hill, 1999) was one of the Library Journal's Best Business Books of 1999. Regular guest on CNNfn, Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg Radio • Ph.D. Psychology & M.A. Mathematics - Univ. of Illinois; B.A. Economics - Wharton School of Business, Univ. of Pennsylvania.
- BI Research, www.biresearch.com, is edited by Tom Bishop, who developed the roots of the BI Ranking while earning his MBA in finance from Cornell University. He has been actively investing in the stock market for over 35 years. So, unlike many on Wall Street, the editor isn't wet behind the ears, having experienced several bear markets and countless 10-20% corrections since 1969. BI Research began publishing in 1981 and has been published continually since that time. Tom does all the research himself using a fundamental approach and his time tested BI Ranking System. He and BI Research have been written about in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Money, Barrons, BusinessWeek and countless local papers like the Miami Herald.
- Ron Rowland is the founder All Star Investor, www.allstarinvestor.com, and serves as its Executive Editor. He is also Chief Investment Officer of Capital Cities Asset Management (www. ccam.com). Quoted by Forbes, Barron's, Kiplingers and the New York Times, Ron is the industry go-to guy for sector rotation insight.
Having run a hedge fund, a mutual fund, and now managed accounts, Ron has experience in both money management and investment publications. Ron developed his own fund/equity momentum indicators while working as an engineer at IBM. His All Star Fidelity Single Sector Strategy average returns are 19.6% for 17 years!
Hulbert Finanical Digest has rated Ron's Single Sector Strategy #1 for many years. It is the all-time leader among Fidelity Funds portfolios.
Ron, former U.S. Investing Champion, earned his bachelor's in Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University of Cincinatti with additional studies at the University of Texas. Ron has been publishing All Star Investor for the past 17 years.
- Eric Roseman has covered the global markets for 15 years, as both a money manager and investment editor, and he recently stepped up to become the Investment Director for the Sovereign Society. Eric serves as editor for The Sovereign Society's Commodity Trend Alert, www.commoditytrendalert.com, an investment service focusing on commodity based securities. Eric's talents include blending a dozen or more alternative investment funds to produce consistent returns to traditional asset classes and making commodity-based recommendations with huge upside and limited downside.
Eric also continues to serve as President of Montreal-based E.N.R. Asset Management, Inc., specializing in alternative portfolio management. E.N.R.'s strategies are highly diversified and include non-traditional hedge fund managers that trade global markets and asset classes long and short. Eric advises managed accounts, funds and partnerships that invest with the top names in the industry, including Global Asset Management (GAM), Momentum, AHL-ED&F Man, Tudor Jones, Medallion, Caxton and Trout Trading.
- Neil Macneale III, editor 2-for-1 newsletter, www.2-for-1.com, was born in Ohio in 1945, attended Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, and graduated from Stanford in 1969.
Stock market investing has been a passion of Mr. Macneale for over 25 years. However, during the busy years of starting a family and a business at the same time, the family's retirement account was put in the hands of a very capable money manager who is a "value" investor of the Buffet and Graham school. The account did well, and for the 80s and 90s so far, has kept just about even with the market. In early 1996, Mr. Macneale acted on a desire to get back into the active management of his IRA account. Studying a theory of stock picking involving companies that had announced 2 for 1 splits, a procedure was developed for picking and managing stocks that showed great promise. Numerous test portfolios were tried and, at the end of July 1996, $50,000 was invested in a real IRA account that reflected the best of the test portfolios. toward their goal of financial independence.
- David Fried is the editor and publisher of The Buyback Letter, www.newsletters.forbes.com, the only investment newsletter devoted to finding opportunities among companies that repurchase their own stock. His asset management firm - Fried Asset Management, Inc. - offers separate investor advisory and money management services which use the "Buyback Strategy" principles.
The Buyback Letter's 6 guided portfolios have all beaten their benchmarks since inception, with one particular portfolio - the 20-Stock Buyback Index - outperforming the S&P 500 by 398.57% as of March 31, 2008. In fact, it has gained more than 7 times the 65% return for the S&P! On average, the 3 "Indexed Portfolios" (Buyback Dogs, Income Index and Buyback Index), all begun in March 1997, are beating the S&P 500 by an average of more than a four-to-one margin, through March 2008. Additionally, The Buyback Letter was ranked #1 for risk-adjusted returns among stock-picking newsletters by the prestigious, authoritative Hulbert Financial Digest for the 10-year period ending 12/31/06). The Buyback Letter continues to receive consistently high grades from The Hulbert Financial Digest.
- One of Canada's most respected financial authors and the nation's leading expert on mutual funds, Gordon Pape is the editor and publisher of the Internet Wealth Builder (IWB), www.buildingwealth.ca, The Income Investor, and Mutual Funds Update. His best-selling books include 6 Steps to $1 Million, Get Control of Your Money, Retiring Wealthy in the 21st Century, and his most recent book, Quizmas: Christmas Trivia Family Fun. He is a columnist for Fifty-Plus magazine, The Fund Library, and GlobeinvestorGOLD.com and is a frequent guest on radio and television programs across Canada.
- Bill Martin is the Editor and cofounder of FindProfit (FindProfit.com). In 1997, Bill Martin and two partners founded Raging Bull with the goal of becoming the leading online financial community for individual investors. While leading Raging Bull, Bill Martin also managed the Raging Portfolio, a model investment portfolio that racked up cumulative gains of over 400% from 1998 to 2000.
Since Raging Bull, Bill Martin was as a private investor and served as an advisor to a number of leading technology and media companies. He co-founded FindProfit with Matt Ragas in early 2002 with the mission of becoming the leading independent investment service for long and short-term investors who love investing and want to consistently beat the market. Bill Martin also runs the Indie Research family of investment services which, in addition to FindProfit.com, includes The Bull Market Report (BullMarket.com), InsiderScore (InsiderScore.com), and Next Inning Technology Research (NextInning.com) which is edited by Paul McWilliams.
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