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Addison Wiggin
Addison Wiggin is the executive publisher of Agora Financial. He’s written and co-authored three best-selling business titles: Financial Reckoning Day, The Demise of the Dollar and Empire of Debt. He publishes several financial newsletters and investment research advisories and is co-author of The Daily Reckoning.
Chris Mayer cut his teeth in banking and went on to serve as the vice president of corporate lending at Provident Bank. Even in the volatile world of corporate lending and investing, Chris never lost money on a single deal.
In 2004, Chris began his own newsletter, Capital & Crisis. Focusing on finding stocks overlooked by the mainstream, Capital & Crisis gives his readers solid picks destined to last the test of time. Chris is also a contributing writer to The Daily Reckoning. |
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Ian Wyatt
Growth Report was co-founded in 2001 by Ian Wyatt, who now serves as the Editor-in-Chief. During the four years of his leadership, Growth Report has delivered average annualized returns of 27% (years 2001 - 2004).
Growth Report is focused on uncovering undervalued growth stocks before Wall Street and Main Street. Our research focuses on the underlying company fundamentals, and it is our overarching belief that over the long-term financially strong and growing companies will outperform the broader indices.
Rising Star Stocks was founded in 2004 by Ian as a compliment to his Growth Report newsletter where he developed an outstanding reputation for uncovering profitable, high growth small cap stocks. The newsletter's swing for the fences strategy has worked well, as evidenced by returns of 62% during the period of June - December 2004.
Rising Star Stocks is an investment newsletter advisory focused on emerging growth stocks that capitalize on long term growth trends. Simply put, Rising Star Stocks seeks to invest in small companies with business catalysts that might lead to stock appreciation by 500 - +1,000% over a relatively short period of time.
As a leading market expert, Ian has written for CBS Marketwatch, Zacks Investment Research, James Dicks Magazine, StockHouse.com, and Empire Magazine. He has been interviewed or cited in articles in well known publications including Barron's magazine, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, Forbes.com, The Dick Davis Digest, The Dick Davis Income Digest, The Wall Street Transcript, the Money Show Digest, The New Jersey Star Ledger, The Wisconsin State Journal, and the Seattle Times. Additionally, Ian is a regular speaker at Money Show investor conferences held throughout the United States, and is a regular guest on the Money Matters Financial Network radio program broadcast in the tri-state area and online. |
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Tom Gardner, Co-Editor
The Motley Fool is dedicated to educating, amusing and enriching individual investors around the world. The company's name is derived from a tradition in Elizabethan drama where only the court Jester - The Fool - could tell the king the truth without losing his head. In that spirit, The Motley Fool uses its independent voice and the latest technology to revolutionize individual investing. Since 1993, The Motley Fool has helped its members grow their wealth and achieve financial independence across a wide variety of online and offline media channels.
In July 1993, brothers David and Tom Gardner founded The Motley Fool as a humble printed newsletter. In 1994, they set their sights on Fool.com. The Motley Fool's website. Today, the Fool has grown into an international multi-media network offering financial solutions to millions of individuals worldwide seeking to make better financial decisions. Tom Gardner is the lead analyst and director of Motley Fool Hidden Gems™ newsletter. David Gardner is the lead analyst and director of Motley Fool Rule Breakers newsletter. David and Tom, have co-authored several best-selling books, including The Motley Fool Investment Guide, The Motley Fool You Have More Than You Think and The Motley Fool Personal Finance Workbook. They also oversee The Motley Fool's nationally syndicated newspaper column and pen their monthly investing newsletter David and Tom Gardner's Motley Fool Stock Advisor™. David and Tom appear frequently in the media and have been featured speakers across the nation, with audiences ranging from 10 to 10,000. |
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Dr. Stephen Leeb
Dr. Leeb is a leading authority on the stock market, energy trends and personal finance. Dr. Leeb combines his knowledge of macro-economic trends and current market conditions with detailed research about specific companies he follows in order to guide investment decisions.
Dr. Leeb is the author of six books on investments and financial trends. His most recent book, The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel (Broadway Books, 2006) was a New York Times bestseller and is consistently Amazon.com’s top ranking in both energy and natural resources categories. The book outlines the biggest challenges facing the American economy, and the steps individuals and government can take to forestall them.
Timer Digest has rated Dr. Leeb among the top market timers for both stocks and bonds several times over the past decade, and Dr. Leeb’s The Complete Investor newsletter has earned awards for editorial excellence by the Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Association. Dr. Leeb is frequently quoted in the financial media, including Investors Business Daily, USA Today, BusinessWeek, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In addition, Dr. Leeb is a recurring guest on Fox Business, Bloomberg and has appeared on Wall Street Week, Business Insiders and CNBC.
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Bernie Schaeffer
Bernie Schaeffer is Chairman and CEO of Schaeffer's Investment Research, Inc. and author of The Option Advisor: Wealth-Building Techniques Using Equity and Index Options. Mr. Schaeffer has edited the Option Advisor newsletter since its inception in 1981, and it has since grown to be the nation's leading options newsletter. He also contributed a chapter on sentiment analysis to the Bloomberg Press book, New Thinking in Technical Analysis: Trading Models from the Masters. In 2003 Bernie penned a chapter on Technical and Sentiment Trading for the Bloomberg Press book, Investing Under Fire: Winning Strategies from the Masters for the Bulls, Bears, and the Bewildered.
Mr. Schaeffer is widely recognized as an expert on equity and index options, investor sentiment and market timing. Timer Digest has been monitoring Mr. Schaeffer since 1984 and ranks him as the #1 Gold Timer for the past 3, 5, and 10 years running. Furthermore, among more than 100 of the nation's top market timers, Bernie is rated as the #6 Long-Term Market Timer for the last five years and the #4 Bond Timer and the #5 Intermediate Market Timer for the last decade.
In 2000, Mr. Schaeffer applied his stock picking prowess to his own "Master Portfolio". Since inception, his portfolio, which is tracked by Marketocracy.com, has returned 81% while the S&P over the same period is up only 6%. Bernie's Master Portfolio is a powerful learning tool for numerous investors. |
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Bob Bogda,
Editor-in-Chief
Editor in Chief Bob Bogda comes to SmallCapInvestor.com with more than 25 years of financial journalism experience, most of it as an editor and manager at the former Knight-Ridder Financial News.
At Knight-Ridder and its successor, financial news service BridgeNews, Bob was a leading member of an editorial team that developed an equities news and information service that grew to $15 million in two years. In that capacity Bob oversaw 20 sector-specific news reporters and editors in nine locations across the United States while developing strategic news coverage and products.
Prior to that Bob served as Chicago Bureau Chief and later designed specialized writing and editing workshops and conducted seminars in bureaus on three continents. As an editorial supervisor Bob received Knight-Ridder’s Editorial Excellence award, cited for "…hiring, training and inspiring a team that (it) believes is the best in the business."
Bob began his journalism career as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering the commodity markets at the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and has written for Barron’s. Later in his career Bob developed a niche news service about financially distressed companies, and worked as the editorial content director, with emphasis on new product development, at a higher education publishing company in Madison, Wis. He received a bachelors degree in agricultural journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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Dylan Jovine
Mr. Jovine has held senior management roles for several corporations including CEO and Chief Investment Officer of LMJG Partners, a money management firm that was sold to Silver Capital (since acquired themselves). At LMJG Partners, Mr. Jovine spearheaded the takeover of brokerage firm Lexington Capital Partners and positioned the company for a turnaround by identifying profitable growth opportunities while developing and implementing a business model that improved customer focus, product quality, productivity, profitably and shareholder value. In addition, Mr. Jovine has held senior roles as a portfolio manager at several firms. In these capacities, Mr. Jovine has applied a disciplined value investment approach to identifying undervalued equities on behalf of institutional and select individual investors. He also managed money on behalf of the firm’s own capital in several cases. Most recently, Mr. Jovine has been a consultant for several large hedge funds, helping them identify and research profitable investment opportunities.
But now, he’s the ultimate Wall Street whistleblower. He got sick and tired of seeing institutional investors get richer while average investors watched their nest eggs fall victim to the rampant conflicts of interest in the major brokerage firms. Dylan left the cushy corner office behind and set out on a mission: To make institutional quality stock research available to individuals at prices anybody could afford. |
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