Investment Director
Who would have guessed that a former dog food delivery person, housepainter, and short order cook would achieve success in the world of money management? “When I was 21, just out of college, I didn’t know the difference between a stock and a bond” Bob confessed at a recent IDE meeting. “It’s been quite a ride.”
After graduating from Washington University, Bob began his long career in the financial services industry as a business development manager for a major financial magazine. Traveling extensively around the globe he established relationships with international banking executives. He leveraged this experience into a regional sales manager position with a mid-sized money manager. He took the Florida territory, ranked dead last, to the most profitable territory for the company within a very short timeframe.
Bob then became Vice President for one of the world’s largest money managers. While in this role, Bob doubled the number of its Florida clients, and increased sales to over $750 million annually. Building on his success Bob was chosen to be the National Speaker for his organization. . He became a sought after keynote speaker at national and regional meetings for the company’s strategic partners which included some of the largest financial companies in the world.
Bob joined Investor’s Daily Edge as Investment Director to help address what he saw as the fundamental behavioral flaw with most investors. “I learned that most people continue to make the same mistakes time and time again. Most investors are hard wired for investment failure. I see IDE as an ideal platform for encouraging practices which, when followed, lead to long term investor success.”
Michael Masterson says, “Bob understands the investment business from the inside out. And he’s applied that knowledge to helping our readers – who are, as individual investors, outsiders – get a distinctive edge. Plus he’s a talented communicator who can make sense of complex financial news and strategies.”
Editor
After earning his Masters from the London School of Economics, Andrew has enjoyed a 25-year business career that has taken him around the world. He’s been involved in infrastructure in Indonesia, port development in Russia, road construction in Malaysia and environmental services in China. He’s also authored six books on the global markets, including China’s Oil and Gas Industry, and The World Coal Market.
Andrew has spent his entire career evaluating companies and appraising investments and he is a proponent of the idea that a healthy portfolio is not dependent on flourishing markets. He specializes in identifying deep value companies with a solid margin of safety as well as income investments with a strong potential for capital gains. He has also become a leading expert in utilizing Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to profit from rising and falling market sectors.
Andrew is currently the Editor-in-Chief of three monthly investment research services – INCOME, Red Flag Insider, and The Wealth Advantage. He resides in Delray Beach, FL and Catonsville, MD, with his wife and two children.
MaryEllen Tribby
Publisher of Investor’s Daily Edge
MaryEllen Tribby has led the Investor’s Daily Edge team for the past 2 years as Publisher & CEO. With her, she has brought over 20 years of publishing and business experience; and most notably, her direct marketing expertise.
Her extensive publishing experience includes serving as President of Weiss Research, managing divisions of Forbes, Globe Communications, Times Mirror Magazines and Crain’s New York Business.
MaryEllen often speaks on expert panels at industry specific events including SIPA, FIPA and DMA. She is in the process of completing her first book “Changing The Channel: How to get Rich with Multi-Channel Marketing” co-authored by Michael Masterson and published by John Wiley and Sons to be released in October 2008.
She currently resides in Boca Raton, FL with her husband of 12 years, Patrick, and their three beautiful children, Mikaela, Connor and Delanie.
Jon Herring
Editorial Contributor
Jon is a staunch advocate for honest government, hard money and the libertarian values of privacy, freedom, and personal responsibility. After graduating from the University of Georgia with a degree in Finance, he started his first business in his early 20s, a venture that soon provided him with a comfortable lifestyle and the money to invest.
Jon is an avowed contrarian, a voracious reader and a diligent student of the markets. He participated in the tech boom (and got out with a profit). He backed the truck up on gold below $300 (and has been buying ever since). And in numerous articles he predicted and warned about the current bear market and credit collapse. Jon’s passion is to study and forecast the major economic and geopolitical trends shaping our world and help his readers use this information to protect and multiply their wealth.
Christian Hill
Managing Editor/Research Analyst
Christian is the resident Research Analyst for Investor’s Daily Edge. He attended Eastern Michigan University, where he graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.
After college, Christian spent the next 5 years in the mortgage industry before serving a short stint with The Street.com. The experience with The Street reinvigorated Christian’s infatuation with the market and led him to his current position with Investor’s Daily Edge.
Christian was born and raised in Michigan and a few years ago he decided that he had enough of the Midwest’s cold winters and short summers. When the opportunity to relocate to the warmth of South Florida presented itself, there was no turning back
Ted Peroulakis
Editorial Contributor
Ted’s passion is protecting and growing people’s wealth. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Florida State University and graduated at the top of his MBA class from the University of Miami, where he specialized in International Business. With more than 15 years of experience in the financial industry, Ted was trained in the World Trade Center by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and seasoned as a stock broker on Wall Street. He also has experience starting and running a successful financial firm. He studied under legendary financial icon Dr. Martin Weiss, and learned the best ways to protect wealth and profit in a bear market while at Weiss Research. Now, Ted is a valuable member of the Investor’s Daily Edge staff as financial analyst and editorial contributor. Ted’s expertise is in showing investors how to invest and profit in natural resources, options, bonds, currencies, futures and stocks.
Editorial Contributor
Steve is a weekly contributor to Investor’s Daily Edge. He is also editor of the red-hot Bond Trader - which has provided subscribers with substantial double-digit returns…. without stock market risk, and his newest blockbuster service, IDE’s Sound Profits.
Steve’s first foray into “risk management” came at an early age, when he served as a pilot in the Navy. He served his country for eight years before beginning his career in the markets as a broker and analyst.
Steve’s specialties are bonds and fixed income investments. His career in the investment field has been dedicated to finding conservative investments for those who want to avoid the risks of the stock market, but still get the returns it offers.
Editorial Contributor
Dr. Russell McDougal is a practicing dentist of over 30 years as well as a past professor of dentistry. The most fitting description of Rusty is the word “student,” and his appetite for learning was only whetted with his formal education. He is a voracious reader and has been known to focus on a particular topic daily for a decade or more.
Rusty has been an active investor for 25 years, holding everything from stocks, bonds and mutual funds, to options, futures, currencies, limited partnerships, private placements and rare coins. Before the days of the internet, he typically subscribed to 10 to 12 financial newsletters at a time. He has learned from the brightest and the best.
Since 1993, Dr. McDougal has focused almost exclusively on gold, silver and resource investing. He has a particular affinity for silver and has studied virtually everything available on the topic since 1994. Today, Dr. McDougal’s personal portfolio is a virtual mutual fund of natural resource exploration and development companies.
Over the years, he has developed an excellent understanding of the risk and reward elements involved and has discovered exactly what it takes to become ultra-successful in this speculators’ paradise. If you have ever dreamed of engaging in prudent speculations that can return $5… $10… or even $20 for every $1 invested, you’ll want to pay close attention when Rusty writes for Investor’s Daily Edge.
Dr. McDougal is a bold and outspoken advocate of honest money, honest markets and honest, constitutional government.
