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Our Contributors
"The Investing
Guys" (contact)
Both Cory Wagner & Cory Janssen developed their backgrounds in Finance while
attending the University of Alberta School of Business. Co-founders of Investopedia.com,
"Investopedia Staff" have shared their investing approach with a wide
variety of audiences throughout Canada and the United States. Investopedia Staff
(and Investopedia.com) have been featured/quoted in hundreds of publications ranging
from CNBC to The Wall Street Journal.
Denise Appleby,CISP, CRC, CRPS, CRSP,
APA (contact)
Denise is a retirement plans consultant who has been in the business for several
years. Denise, a Rutgers State University graduate, has earned the following designations:
Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist (CRPS) designation from the College for
Financial Planning; Certified IRA Services Professional (CISP) designation from
the Institute Of Certified Bankers; Certified Retirement Services Professional
(CRSP) designation from the Institute Of Certified Bankers; and the Certified
Retirement Counselor (CRC) designation from the International Foundation for Retirement
Education (InFRE) and the Accredited Pension Administrator (APA) from the National
Institute of Pension Administrators. Denise has successfully completed also the
Pension Administrator's course offered by the American Society of Pension Actuaries
(ASPA).
Ben McClure (contact)
Ben McClure is director of McClure & Co., an independent research and consulting
firm that specializes in investment analysis and intelligence. Before founding
McClure & Co., Ben was a highly-rated European equities analyst at city of
London-based Old Mutual Securities. He also spent several years as a business/technology
journalist at the Economist Group. Mr. McClure has also graduated from
the University of Alberta School of Business with an MBA.
Matt Blackman (contact)
Matt Blackman is a technical trader, author, reviewer, keynote speaker and regular
contributor to a number of trading publications and investment/trading websites
in North America and Europe. His articles have been published in Technical
Analysis of Stocks & Commodities Magazine, Working Money, Traders.com
Advantage, Traders Mag (Europe), Active Trader and SFO (Stocks, Futures & Options) Magazine. He has also written articles
on a wide variety of international finance and e-commerce business-related topics
for E-Commerce Quarterly, Offshore Finance USA, Offshore
Finance Canada, Offshore Outlook, Shore-to-Shore and Shoreliner
Magazine, the official membership publication for the Offshore Institute.
He is an affiliate of the Market Technicians Association and Canadian Society
of Technical Analysts member and currently enrolled in the Chartered Market Technicians
(CMT) program. He earned a BSc (Honors) degree from Simon Fraser University.
Ellis Traub
An alumnus of Harvard and Cornell Universities, Ellis is also the chairman of
the Inve$tWare Corporation (www.investware.com),
manufacturers of stock analysis software. He the author of Take Stock: A Roadmap
To Profiting From Your First Walk Down Wall Street, published by Dearborn
Trade and available at Amazon.com.
A popular speaker at national events as well as at many National Association of
Investors Corporation (NAIC) chapter functions across the country, he has written
many articles appearing in NAIC's Better Investing magazine and in Bits,
the Computer Group's newsletter.
Richard J. Wayman, CFA
Richard is President of Researchstock.com,
an independent equity research firm that focuses on under-followed small-cap stocks.
Prior to co-founding Researchstock.com,
he was a buy-side analyst for Fifth Third Bank and a sell-side analyst for The
Ohio Company. He is an active member of the Association for Investment Management
and Research and is the President of the Columbus Society of Financial Analysts.
John F. Summa, CTA (contact)
John Summa, a hedge fund manager and president of OptionsNerd.com,
is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) with the National Futures Association.
He recently coauthored with Jonathan Lubow of Trader's Edge, Inc, He recently
co-authored with Jonathan Lubow Options
on Futures: New Trading Strategies and Options on Futures Workbook (John
Wiley & Sons). Founded in 1997 by Mr. Summa, OptionsNerd.com is devoted to
providing market commentary, trading advisories and educational support to options
traders. A former professional skier with a master's degree in economics, Mr.
Summa also operates Summa Capital Partners, LP, a private investment fund based
in Connecticut.
David Harper (contact)
David Harper is a senior consultant with Sibson Consulting. He has over ten years
of experience consulting to chief-level officers and corporate boards on corporate
performance, performance measurement, valuation, incentive plan design, stock
option programs, and transaction effectiveness. He has consulted several prominent
investment management firms, banks, and private equity firms (including Barclays
Global Investors, American Century Investors, Bank of America, and growth and
value-oriented asset managers of Old Mutual PLC). He is also a frequent speaker
and writer on issues related to performance measurement and valuation. He is a
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) candidate, having passed Level II.
Jason Van Bergen (contact)
Jason Van Bergen is president and chief analyst of Hi-Tequity
Research, an independent stock research service employing its proprietary
“Management Matters” system to analyze and predict the future performance
of North American small-cap companies. Mr. Van Bergen also writes for the About.com
Guide to Stocks, an educational resource containing extensive information relating
to stocks and investing geared to both beginning and intermediate investors.
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