CHIEF
INVESTMENT OFFICER
Donald L. Luskin
 Don's
30-year career as an entrepreneur,
executive, investment manager and commentator has been built around his passion
for the application of technology and innovation to the challenge of investing.
Prior to founding Trend Macrolytics, Don was Vice Chairman and co-Chief Investment Officer of Barclays Global Investors
(now acquired by Blackrock), where he worked with the
world's largest institutional investors to create innovative indexing and
quantitative investment management strategies.
After Barclays, Don was CEO
and co-founder of MetaMarkets.com, and manager of the pathbreaking OpenFund
-- the world's first mutual fund to disclose all its holdings and trading
activity in real-time on the Internet.
Don was the inventor of the POSIT ECN, and
founder of Investment Technology Group at Jefferies & Company. He has been a
hedge fund manager and an options market maker on the Chicago Board Options
Exchange, the Pacific Stock Exchange, and the New York Stock Exchange.
Don's column is published weekly on SmartMoney.com.
He contributes frequently to National Review Online and the
op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal. Don appears regularly on
CNBC's "Kudlow Report."
He was formerly a columnist for
TheStreet.com and Business 2.0. His commentaries have been
published in the Washington
Post, National Review, the Harvard
Business Review, Reason, Pensions & Investments, the American Spectator, the San Jose Mercury News,
and the Detroit News.
Don runs
a blog The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid -- in which
he examines the obstacles to wealth creation by ordinary people. He is the author of Index Options
and Futures: The Complete Guide, and editor of Portfolio Insurance: The
Guide to Dynamic Hedging, both published by Wiley.
COMPLETE CV
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MANAGING DIRECTOR
Thomas Demas
 Tom
has been the client service and marketing point of contact for
several leading independent research firms. His institutional
experience ranges from representing macroeconomic analysis firms such
as Polyconomics, H.C. Wainwright Economics, and 13D
Research to securities analysts such as GARP Research,
Calvert Crary, and Farmhouse Equity Research.
Tom's skills include a keen understanding
of market-based, supply-side economics and the connection between
politics and markets -- as well as a flair for client contact.
As an institutional salesman for both Rochdale Securities and
Capital Institutional Services, Tom was involved exclusively in
independent research, bringing together the best and brightest on Wall Street
with their counterparts in the firms he has represented. Communicating with top
decision-makers, Tom has served as the information distribution nexus
for timely and need-to-know analysis.
Tom graduated from St. Lawrence
University with a BA in economics.
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