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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 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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