- Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is a Wall Street stock investor. He is currently a research consultant at Fidelity Investments and his likeness is the primary marketing tool of the company. Lynch graduated from Boston College and studied finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. - Henry Blodget
Henry Blodget is CEO of Cherry Hill Associates, LLC, an Internet research and consulting firm. He serves as an advisor to several Internet companies, edits an award-winning blog, Internet Outsider , and is a frequent contributor to Slate , Newsweek International , The New York Times , and other publications. He is the author of The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing . - Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle, founder of the Enderle Group, is a consultant, writer, and widely quoted technical and legal analyst in the information technology industry. Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices, the SCO Group, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell are (or have been) among his clients. Enderle has been critical of Apple Computer and Linux, as well as Unix and the open source/free software movements in general. - Peter Schiff
Mr. Schiff is one of the few non-biased investment advisors (not committed solely to the short side of the market) to have correctly called the current bear market before it began and to have positioned his clients accordingly. As a result of his accurate forecasts on the U.S. stock market, commodities, gold and the dollar, he is becoming increasingly more renowned. - Larry Williams
Larry R. Williams is a stock and commodities trader and technical analyst. Larry Williams is a graduate of the University of Oregon, with BS in Journalism. In 1982, his book "How to Prosper in the Coming Good Years" was published. It forecast the largest bull market and surge of economic growth the United States has ever seen. The book was written at a time when the majority of pundits were calling for slowdown in economic growth and stock market, … - Mary Meeker
Mary G. Meeker (born September ??, 1959 in rural Portland, Indiana, USA) is an influential Wall Street securities analyst and investment banker primarily associated with dot coms and the 1990s internet bubble. Meeker became known as "Queen of the Net" after being dubbed so by "Barron's Magazine" in 1998. Meeker holds a B.A. in psychology from DePauw University (1981) and a M.B.A. in finance from Cornell University (1986). - Abigail Johnson
Abigail Johnson (born January 7, 1962) is an American financial businesswoman. She runs Fidelity Investments together with her father Edward Johnson. From the 2006 annual list of 400 richest Americans Abigail Johnson ranks 16th with $13 billion. She was ranked as the 28th richest person in the world in 2005 and the 5th richest woman by "Forbes" magazine's list of the world's richest people. Forbes calculated her net worth in 2005 at $12 billion. - Dean Faiello
Dean Faiello was the main suspect in the murder of Maria Cruz, a Filipino immigrant who worked as a financial analyst in New York City. It was suspected that she was the victim of a botched medical operation by the unlicensed Faiello. Additionally, her body was found in his New Jersey home after police traced the victim's activities and bank records on the day of her disappearance. Faiello is gay and was sharing his home with his life partner, … - Richard Dennis
Richard J. Dennis, a former commodities speculator known as the "Prince of the Pit," was born in Chicago, in January, 1949. In the early 1970s, he borrowed several thousand dollars and reportedly made $200 million in about ten years. He incurred significant losses in the stock market crash of 1987, and retired from trading for several years. He has been active in Democratic and Libertarian political causes, most notably in campaigns against drug prohibition. - Abby Joseph Cohen
Abby Joseph Cohen 'Abby Joseph Cohen ' ( CFA ) (born 1952 in Queens, New York ) is an American economist and financial analyst on Wall Street . She is a partner and chief U.S. investment strategist at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Ms Cohen earned economics degrees from Cornell University and George Washington University then began her career as an economist in 1973 at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. serving until 1977. - Bill Jelen
Bill Jelen (born February 17, 1965 in Salem, Ohio) is a technology author, book publisher, webmaster, television personality, and a Microsoft Excel MVP. He majored in Business at University of Notre Dame. He currently resides outside of Akron, Ohio with his wife and two sons. Jelen is the author of "Guerilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel", "The Spreadsheet at 25 - The Evolution of the Invention That Changed the World", "Learn Excel from MrExcel". - Frank Quattrone
Frank Quattrone (born 1956) is a former investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston who helped bring dozens of companies public during the 1990s tech boom, including Netscape, Cisco, and Amazon.com. Later he was prosecuted for interfering with a government probe into Credit Suisse First Boston's behavior in allocating "hot" IPOs. The case was eventually dropped. He was earning roughly $160 million a year during his peak at the firm. - Gretchen Morgenson
Gretchen Morgenson , Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from The New York Times, is an expert from the world of journalism. She is knowledgeable on the WHOs and the WHATs of Executive Compensation's uses and abuses. Her topic is The Good, The Bad and the Ugly in Executive and Board Compensation. - Mario Gabelli
Mario Joseph Gabelli (born June 19, 1942) is an American stock investor, investment advisor and financial analyst. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Gabelli Asset Management Company Investors (GAMCO Investors) a $30 billion dollar global investment firm headquartered in Rye, New York. "Forbes" magazine's 2006 Forbes 400 rankings listed as #346 on the list of wealthiest Americans and estimated his net worth at $1.0 billion. - Robert Krausz
Robert Krausz (1936 - October 3, 2002) was a commodities and futures trader. As a child born in Budapest, Hungary, Robert Krausz spent most of his childhood living in one of nine ghettos formed by the Nazis during World War II, established to confine Jews into tightly packed areas of the cities of Eastern Europe. He survived World War II by escaping from a group being led to a concentration camp. After the war, he ended up in a South African orphanage, … - David Koch
David James Koch, (pronounced Kosh), nicknamed Kochie (pronounced Kosh-ee), (born 7 March 1956), is an Australian television personality, and financial commentator. He currently presents Seven Network's "Sunrise" morning program each weekday, as co-host with Melissa Doyle. Koch and Doyle also co-host another Seven Network production "Where Are They Now". Koch hosts Australia's top-rated small business show, "My Business", … - Julian Robertson
Julian H Robertson Jr (1933-) was born in Salisbury, North Carolina in the United States. Robertson founded the investment firm Tiger Management Corp. He is credited with turning $8 million in start-up capital in 1980 into over $22 billion in the late 1990s, though that was followed by a fast downward spiral that ended with the funds' closing in 2000. In 1993, his compensation and share of Tiger's mammoth gain reportedly exceeded $300 million. - Toby Crabel
William "Toby" Harrison Crabel (born 1955) is a United States self made millionare commodities trader, The Financial Times called Crabel "the most well-known trader on the counter-trend side"He is the fund manager of "Crabel Capital Management". Crabel Capital Management ranked number "101" out of "196" funds on Absolute Return magazine list "Absolute Return survey of U.S. groups with more than $1 billion AUM, July 2005".. - Chris Gardner
Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a self-made millionaire, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and philanthropist who, during the early 1980s, struggled with homelessness while raising his toddler son, Christopher. Gardner's book of memoirs was published in May 2006 by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. As of 2006, he is CEO of his own stockbrokerage firm, Gardner Rich, based in Chicago, … - Barton Biggs
Barton M. Biggs, well-known in the investment world, runs Traxis Partners, a hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut. He formerly held the title of "chief global strategist" for Morgan Stanley and was with that firm for 30 years. Biggs has appeared numerous times on CNBC and was a member of the Barron's Roundtable. His influence could be seen when, in 1996, some traders were surprised that India funds suddenly became popular. - Peter Thiel
Peter Andreas Thiel (born 1967) is an American financier, entrepreneur, and prominent donor to charities focusing on economic liberty and technology. With Max Levchin, Thiel co-founded PayPal and is its former CEO. Thiel once proposed that PayPal could be a catalyst for change in world politics. From Foster City, California, Thiel is an avowed libertarian. He studied 20th-century philosophy at Stanford University before going on to Stanford Law School. - Richard Farleigh
Richard Farleigh (born November 9, 1960) is an Australian private investor. He is currently a member of the "Business Review Weekly" Rich 200 list, a list of the 200 wealthiest Australian individuals. Born in Kyabram, Victoria, Farleigh was one of eleven siblings. His father, a labourer and sheep shearer who moved around Australia with his wife and eleven children, was a violent alcoholic. - Victor Niederhoffer
Victor Niederhoffer, a well known hedge fund manager, champion squash player and statistician, studied statistics and economics at Harvard University (B.A. 1964) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. 1969). He was a finance professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1967-1972). In 1965, while still at college he co-founded with Frank Cross a company called Niederhoffer, Cross and Zeckhauser, Inc., … - Martin Schwartz
Martin S. Schwartz (Buzzy) is a Wall Street trader who made his fortune successfully trading stocks, futures and options. He received national attention when he won the U.S. Investing Championship in 1984. He is the author of "Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Day Trader". - Irving Kahn
Irving Kahn (born 1905) is an American value investor and, with over 77 years experience in the investment business, one of the oldest financial analysts on Wall Street. Chairman of Kahn Brothers & Co., Inc. -- the firm he started in 1978 with his two sons Thomas and Alan -- he still performs an active role at the company at the age of 101. Educated at the City College of New York, … - Edward Lampert
Edward S. "Eddie" Lampert (born July 19 1962) is an American investor, financier and businessman. He is the chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD) and founder, chairman, and CEO of ESL Investments. Until May, 2007 he was a director of AutoNation, Inc. He previously served as a director of AutoZone, Inc. from 1999 to 2006. Lampert graduated from Yale University in 1984 (B.A., economics, summa cum laude), where he was a member of Skull and Bones and Phi Beta Kappa. - Linda Bradford Raschke
Linda Bradford Raschke is a commodities and futures trader who is President of LBRGroup, Inc., a registered CTA and money management firm and president of LBR Asset Management, a "Commodity Pool Operator". - Martin Zweig
Martin E. Zweig (born 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American stock investor, investment advisor and financial analyst. - Victor Sperandeo
Victor Sperandeo, known as Trader Vic, is a professional wall street stock trader, speculator and investment advisor. He has written two books on speculation, and co-written a novel about finance. Sperandeo uses a combination of fundamental and technical analysis. He subscribes to the Austrian School of Economics and the objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand. He has traded stocks, stock index futures, commodity futures, and options on all these, … - Kenneth L. Fisher
Kenneth L. Fisher is founder, Chairman, and CEO of Fisher Investments, a money management firm headquartered in Woodside, California. Fisher writes the monthly “Portfolio Strategy” column in "Forbes" magazine, contributes to other financial and news magazines, has authored four books, and has written research papers in the field of behavioral finance. - David Tepper
David Alan Tepper (born on September 11, 1957) is a value investor, successful hedge fund manager and the founder of Appaloosa Management. His investment specialty is distressed companies. In recent years he's become known as a philanthropist, his largest gift going to Carnegie Mellon University, whose Tepper School of Business is named after him. He earned his MBA (then known as an MSIA) from Carnegie Mellon in 1982. - Steven A. Cohen
Steven A. Cohen (born circa 1956), a self-made billionaire hedge fund investor, is the founder and manager of SAC Capital Partners, a Stamford, Connecticut-based hedge fund. Cohen lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, with his wife and five of his children.. Cohen grew up in Great Neck, New York, and he attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. After Wharton, Cohen got a Wall Street job as a junior trader in the options arbitrage department at Gruntal & Co. - Michael Marcus
Michael Marcus is a commodities trader who, in under 20 years, is reputed to have turned his initial $30,000 into $80 million. Marcus met his mentor Ed Seykota while working as an analyst and learned money management from him. Later while working. at Commodities Corporation and before becoming the company's executive vice president, he hired Bruce Kovner to be his assistant and taught Bruce the ins and outs of trading. - John W. Henry
John William Henry (born September 20, 1949 in Quincy, Illinois), a hedge fund manager who founded John W. Henry & Company. He is also the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing. In March 2006, Boston Magazine estimated his net worth at $860 million, but noted that his company had recently had difficulties. In May 2007, reports in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg noted further difficulties with the firm. - David Ryan
David Ryan is a stock investor who won the U.S. Investing Championship three times between 1985 and 1990. He is the protégé of William O'Neil. In July 1998 he founded Ryan Capital Management in Santa Monica, California, which is an investment advisory firm specializing in asset management and offers stock market expertise and portfolio management experience to a limited number of investors. He is the investment strategist and portfolio manager. - John Moody
John Moody (1868 - 1958) was a U.S. financial analyst and investor. He pioneered the rating of bonds and founded Moody's Investment Services. Moody's Manuals are still issued, carrying on the tradition begun by the seminal Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities and continued by the annual Moody's Analyses of Investments. - Blair Hull
Marson Blair Hull, Jr. (born September 3, 1942), commonly known as Blair Hull, is an American businessman and politician, notable for his attempt to win the Democratic Party nomination to serve in the United States Senate from Illinois in 2004. He is the founder and CEO of the Hull Group, an equity option market making firm that was sold to Goldman Sachs. - Paul Kangas
Paul Kangas a former stockbroker with more than 12 years experience, is the Miami-based Anchor and Financial Commentator host of Nightly Business Report since it was a local Florida program in 1979. The show is still hosted from Florida, where he resides with his wife, Peni. Although he hosts the show that gives premier financial advice, he owns no stock. Kangas was born in Houghton, Michigan and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. - Mark Ritchie
Mark Andrew Ritchie is a Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange commodities trader. A twenty- year veteran of the financial industry, Mark is one of the original founding partners of "Chicago Reasearch and Trading (CRT)" (the other his brother Joe Ritchie) once the largest options firm in the industry. He is also the author of two books, "God in the Pits" and "Spirit of the Rainforest". - Sallie L. Krawcheck
Ms. Krawcheck is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Citi Global Wealth Management. Until March 2007, Ms. Krawcheck served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy for Citigroup Inc. She is also a member of the Citi Management, Operating and Business Heads Committees, as well as the Citi Foundation Board and Citi Business Practices Committee. Ms. Krawcheck joined Citigroup in October 2002 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Smith Barney.
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