
Donald Luskin
Chief Investment Officer
don@trendmacro.com
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.
After a decade building Wells Fargo Investment Advisors into the world's
largest and most innovative investment manager -- where indexing,
tactical asset allocation and quant-active investing were invented and
popularized -- Don was a member of the three-man management team that
sold the firm to Barclays Bank PLC in 1995.
After Barclays, Don was CEO and co-founder of MetaMarkets.com, and
manager of the pathbreaking OpenFund -- the world's first "interactive
mutual fund," that showed 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 appears weekly on CNBC's "Kudlow & Company". His columns are
published weekly on SmartMoney.com. He contributes frequently to
the editorial page of Wall Street Journal, and to National
Review Online. His articles and commentaries have been published in
the Harvard Business Review, National Review, Pensions
& Investments, Townhall, the American Spectator, the
San Jose Mercury News and the Detroit News. He was
formerly a columnist for TheStreet.com and Business 2.0.
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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David Gitlitz
Chief Economist
dgitlitz@trendmacro.com
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 iconoclastic approach to forecasting and analyzing
developments in macroeconomic and market dynamics. 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
Previously, David was
managing director of Kudlow & Co. He worked as chief economist of DG
Capital Advisors, and was a member of the MetaMarkets Think Tank.
Earlier, he served as senior economist at Polyconomics Inc., the
economics research firm headed by Jude Wanniski, 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,
and former senior editor of Fed Fortnightly. His work has been
published in the Wall Street Journal, National Review,
Dow Jones Markets, and TheStreet.com, and he has appeared on
CNBC and Fox News.
He is a graduate of the University of Maryland.
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Thomas Demas
Managing Director
tdemas@trendmacro.com
As client
service and marketing point of contact, Tom brings to bear a keen
understanding of market-based, supply-side economics and the connection
between politics and markets -- as well as a flair for client
communications
Tom was institutional sales
manager at Polyconomics, the economics research firm headed by Jude
Wanniski. His institutional experience ranges from representing
macroeconomics research firms such as H.C. Wainwright Economics, and 13D
Research to securities analysts such as GARP Research, Calvert Crary and
Farmhouse Equity Research.
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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