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Empowering the individual investor and trader through our global network of financial experts and media by creating dynamic communities of education online and at live events around the world.


Speakers

Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes is the chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media. Since assuming his position in 1990, Forbes has expanded, launching a variety of new publications and businesses including: ForbesLife, the irreverent lifestyle supplement; ForbesWoman, a lifestyle publication providing executive women with content that they value and respect; Forbes.com; Forbes Asia, the magazine's Asian publication; and Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Turkish editions of the magazine. In both 1996 and 2000, Mr. Forbes vigorously campaigned for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. In 1985, President Reagan named him chairman of the bi-partisan Board for International Broadcast, a role in which President Bush reappointed him to until 1993. In this position, Mr. Forbes oversaw the operation of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. He writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under "Fact and Comment" and is the author of several books including Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS, A New Birth of Freedom, and most recently, How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels Between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today. A widely respected economic prognosticator, Mr. Forbes is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times, which was formerly given by U.S. Steel to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate. He serves on the boards of The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, and The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and holds honorary degrees from numerous universities.

Kenneth Fisher
Ken Fisher is founder, chairman, and CEO of Fisher Investments, a multi-billion dollar money management firm, serving large pension plans, endowments, foundations, and high-net-worth individuals across the US, UK, Canada, and Germany (as of March 31, 2011). He is best known for over 26 years as Forbes' Portfolio Strategy columnist--the fourth longest running columnist in Forbes history. Third-party research firm, CXO Advisory Group's, "Guru Grades," ranks Mr. Fisher as one of the most accurate stock market forecasters over recent years (as of March 31, 2011). He has written seven major books. Mr. Fisher's 2010 book, Debunkery (John Wiley & Sons), was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His eighth book is due out Fall of 2011. Mr. Fisher has been published, interviewed, and/or been written about in most major American, British, Canadian, German, and Swiss finance or business periodicals. He was ranked #252 on the 2010 Forbes 400 list of richest Americans and #736 on Forbes' 2011 Worlds Billionaire list. In 2010, Mr. Fisher was also recognized in Investment Advisor magazines prestigious list of the industrys 30 most influential people over the last 30 years (IA-30-30), and was included again in their list of the 25 most influential advisors of 2011 (IA-25). His 1970s theoretical work developed the price-to-sales ratio, now a core part of financial curriculum. A prize-winning researcher, Mr. Fisher's credits span a multitude of professional and scholarly journals--recently including The Journal of Portfolio Management and The Financial Analyst's Journal. In 2009, he was awarded the inaugural annual Tiburon Strategic Advisors "CEO Summit" award for "Challenging Conventional Wisdom."

Rich Karlgaard
Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes, one of the world's most popular business and financial magazines that is read by 4.5 million people per issue. In every issue of Forbes, he writes a column about technology, entrepreneurship, regional and economical development, and the future of business and work called "Innovation Rules." Mr. Karlgaard also lectures on these subjects and is a regular guest on the FOX News Channel's Forbes on Fox. He is the author of Life 2.0 How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness. Mr. Karlgaard joined Forbes in 1992 and started Forbes ASAP, a technology magazine, along with Forbes CEO and editor-in-chief, Steve Forbes, and the futurist and writer, George Gilder. He has co-founded two companies, Garage Technology Ventures and Upside magazine as well as a civic organization called the Churchill Club. For the latter, Mr. Karlgaard was a co-winner of an Ernst & Young "Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year" award. He is also on the board of directors at Forbes.com, Garage Technology Ventures, and Extend America. Mr. Karlgaard is a graduate of Stanford University.

James Stack
Recognized by Barron's Winner's Circle as one of the Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors in the US, James Stack is president of Stack Financial Management and InvesTech Research. He has been a popular speaker at MoneyShow conferences for over 24 years and is renowned in the industry for his historical perspective and safety-first approach to investing. In Mr. Stack's first appearance on Wall $treet Week in 1986, Louis Rukeyser introduced him as "a technician from the Northern Rockies who is beating the city boys at their own game." In 1987, USA Today wrote, "From his office overlooking Whitefish Lake in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, Jim Stack foresaw the stock market crash of October 19th--Black Monday." Credited with having warned investors of the impending housing bubble in 2005 and imminent bear market in August 2007, he told Orlando MoneyShow attendees in 2009--just four weeks before the March 9th bottom--to "prepare for the best buying opportunity in over a decade." Mr. Stack has a track record that has been described by Forbes as "more or less impervious to declines."

Hilary Kramer
Hilary Kramer is the editor of GameChangers, Breakout Stocks Under $10, and High Octane Stocks, published by InvestorPlace Media. She is also a weekly commentator on Nightly Business Report, and author of The Little Book of Big Profits from Small Stocks. She has 25 years of investing experience, first as an analyst, then as a portfolio manager, investment banker, and hedge fund manager, and has managed more than $5 billion in global private equity and publicly traded investments. She received an MBA from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and within a decade was recognized as one of the best equity investors on Wall Street.

Marilyn Cohen
Marilyn Cohen is one of the country's top bond managers. She began her 33-year financial career as a securities analyst at William O'Neil & Co, moved into bond brokerage at Cantor Fitzgerald, Inc., then founded Envision Capital Management 17 years ago. As Envision's CEO, Ms. Cohen and her company specialize in managing bond portfolios for individuals. During this same 17 years she has written the bond column appearing in Forbes magazine. Ms. Cohen is the author three books, her latest being Surviving the Bond Bear MarketNuclear Winter (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011), which shows investors how to survive the coming nuclear winter of the bond market and identifies the indicators that will tell you when to make strategic moves. She is also publisher of the Bond Smart Investor, a monthly newsletter that provides individual investors with timely bond insights and specific recommendations and focuses exclusively on fixed income investments. Ms. Cohen is a popular guest on CNBC, FOX Business News, PBS, and each of the major broadcast networks. Her comments--stated in plain English--guide individuals through the inner workings of the bond market.

Jack Ablin
Jack Ablin is executive vice president and chief investment officer with Harris Private Bank. He chairs the Asset Allocation Committee and is responsible for establishing investment policy and strategy within the Personal Investment Management Group. Mr. Ablin joined BMO Harris in 2001 and has more than 25 years of experience in money management. Previously, he served as a professor of finance at Boston University, Graduate School of Management and spent five years as a Money and Markets correspondent for WTLV, the NBC affiliate in Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. Ablin has written on a variety of topics, including investor psychology and financial markets outlook and is the author of Reading Minds and Markets: Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Returns in a Volatile Global Marketplace, published in July 2009 by F.T. Press; Wall Street Journals bestseller list, 2009. He is a frequent contributor to CNBC, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, and Barrons. Mr. Ablin was named one of the top 100 Wealth Advisors in North America, by Citywealth magazine in 2006, 2010, 2011, and 2012. He earned a Bachelors degree from Vassar College, New York, graduating with honors with an AB in mathematics and computer science, and received an MBA with honors and graduated cum laude from Boston University, Massachusetts. Mr. Ablin is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society and the CFA Society of Chicago, holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, and is a CFA Institute Charter holder.

John Stephenson
John Stephenson is a senior vice president and portfolio manager with First Asset Investment Management, Inc., where he is responsible for a wide range of equity mandates with a particular focus on energy and resource investing. Mr. Stephenson has been recognized by Brendan Wood International (BWI) as one of Canada's 50 best portfolio managers for the past three years. He is the author of The Little Book of Commodity Investing (John Wiley & Sons, 2010), which has been translated into five languages and Shell Shocked: How Canadians Can Invest After the Collapse (John Wiley & Sons, 2009), and writes a free bi-weekly investment newsletter, Strategic Investor, which reaches a global audience of more than 225,000 (www.StephensonFiles.com). Mr. Stephenson is regularly quoted by Bloomberg News, Reuters, The Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, and the Globe and Mail, and is a frequent guest on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN, FOX Business, and Canada's Business News Network (BNN), Sun TV, and the CBC. He is also frequently the keynote speaker at investment conferences throughout North America. Mr. Stephenson holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Waterloo, an MBA from INSEAD, as well as the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designations.