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 with David
Gitlitz, Don was Vice Chairman and co-Chief Investment Officer of Barclays Global Investors, 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 runs
a web-log based on his
forthcoming book, 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.
Don's column is published weekly on SmartMoney.com he contributes frequently to National Review Online. Don appears regularly on
CNBC's "Kudlow & Company" and on Bloomberg TV, CNN and
Fox News.
He was formerly a columnist for
TheStreet.com and Business 2.0. His commentaries have been
published in the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard
Business Review, Pensions &
Investments, the American Spectator, the San Jose Mercury News,
and the Detroit News.
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CHIEF ECONOMIST
David Gitlitz
 David
is a recognized authority on capital markets and the market influences
of political and policy developments affecting incentives to wealth
creation.
David has developed a wide following for
his supply-side approach to assessing and forecasting developments in
fixed income, equities, currency and commodity markets. He is
recognized as the first economist to diagnose the monetary deflation
of the late 1990s, and forecast its effects on the Asian and US
economies.
Before founding Trend Macrolytics with Donald Luskin, David was
managing director of Kudlow & Co., the economic research and
consulting service headed by Lawrence Kudlow. David also worked
as an independent consultant as chief economist of DG Capital
Advisors, and was a member of the MetaMarkets Think Tank.
Earlier, he served as vice president and senior economist at
Polyconomics Inc., leading the firm’s analysis of domestic and
global capital markets.
David was also director of research and communications for the
United Shareholders Association, the shareholder advocacy group
founded by T. Boone Pickens. He was the former Washington
editor of Bondweek, published by Institutional
Investor, and former senior editor of Fed Fortnightly.
His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal,
National Review, Dow Jones Markets,
TheStreet.com and Forbes Media Critic, and he
has appeared on CNBC and the Fox News Network.
He is a graduate of the University of
Maryland.
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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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