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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.

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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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