VICTOR ADAIR
Victor began trading financial markets over 30 years ago and has held a number of senior positions during his long career as a commodity and stockbroker. He provides daily market commentary on CKNW AM 980 radio Vancouver and is nationally syndicated on Mike Campbell’s weekly Moneytalks radio show. Victor’s trading focus is primarily on the currency, precious metal, interest rate and stock index markets and his clients are high net worth individuals and corporations.
DAVID BENSIMON
David Bensimon graduated in 1988 with multiple national awards and top of his class in the Bachelor of Commerce program at the University of British Columbia. He has since had 20 years of experience with interbank, exchange-floor, and proprietary trading and investing across foreign exchange, interest rate, equity index, and commodity markets. His institutional career at top-tier investment banks in Europe over the course of a decade included positions of chief dealer, head of trading, and chief of staff, and he also spent a year on the floor of a major Asian futures exchange.
For the past decade Mr. Bensimon has published his forecasts of global markets with well-documented precision via his Australian-based consulting firm, Polar Pacific. The Special Edition of his book, Polar Perspectives, has won two gold medals at international competitions. His monthly series, PolarView, has correctly predicted key turning points for major markets, including the volatile movements for stocks and commodities in 2008. A sought-after speaker at conferences and seminars around the world for his compelling analysis and dynamic delivery, Mr. Bensimon is also frequently invited to share his views in the financial media. His latest project, Polarcap Prosperity, is a Singapore-registered investment fund.
TYLER BOLLHORN
Founder of Stockscores.com Tyler Bollhorn is a professional stock trader who has been active in the stock markets for over 19 years. In 1999 he founded Stockscores Analytics which provides the Stockscores.com web site research tool.
Today, Canadian investors use the analytical tools of Stockscores to aid them in their investment decisions. Mr Bollhorn is also an educator and has taught thousands of Canadians how to analyze and trade stocks. His simple approach to stock market analysis has been studied and applied by sophisticated professional investors, individual investors managing their retirement portfolios and those just beginning their market education. He and his work have been featured in the New York Times, Barrons, The Globe and Mail and others.
MICHAEL CAMPBELL
Michael Campbell is British Columbia’s most respected business analyst. he is best known as the host of Canada’s top rated business show – Money Talks – heard nationally across the Corus Radio network. Each week Michael and his guests track financial trends to help listeners to find ways to maximize their investments.
Michael is also Senior Business Analyst for BCTV on Global and a frequent contributor to the national Canada Tonight broadcast.
AARON DUNN
Aaron Dunn is a senior equity analyst at KeyStone Financial Publishing Corp., a leading provider of independent investment research on the Canadian stock market. Through the Income Stock Report, KeyStone provides specific buy/sell advice on income producing stocks, trusts, ETFs, and other vehicles–helping investors construct three types of income generating portfolios–conservative, moderate, and aggressive growth, via an RRSP, TFSA, or regular trading account. Previous to his work at KeyStone Financial, Mr. Dunn was the senior editor of the Canadian Investment Journal (CIJ), a nationally distributed financial newspaper focused on delivering small-cap investment research to the Canadian public. He received the Canadian Investment Manager (CIM) designation from the Canadian Securities Institute, is a level 3 candidate in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program, and has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Royal Roads University.
PETER GRANDICH
Though he never finished high school, Peter Grandich entered Wall Street in the mid-1980s with no formal education or training and within three years was appointed Vice President of Investment Strategy for a leading New York Stock Exchange member firm. He would go on to hold positions as a Market Strategist, portfolio manager for four hedgefunds and a mutual fund that bared his name.
His abilities has resulted in hundreds of media interviews including GMA, Neil Cavuto’s Your World on Fox News, The Kudlow Report on CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Financial Post, Globe and Mail, US News & World Report, New York Times, Business Week, MarketWatch, Business News Network and dozens more. He’s spoken at investment conferences around the globe, edited numerous investment newsletters, and is one of the more sought after commentators.
Grandich is the founder of Grandich.com and Grandich Publications, LLC, and is editor of The Grandich Letter which was first published in 1984. On his internationally-followed blog, he comments daily about the world’s economies and financial markets and posts his views on social and political topics. He blogs about a variety of timely subjects of general interest and interweaves his unique brand of humor and every-man “Grandichism” expressions with his experience gained from more than 25 years in and around Wall Street. The result is an insightful and intuitive look at business, finances and the world, set in a vernacular that just about anyone can understand. In his first year, Grandich’s wildly-popular blog had more than one million views. Grandich also provides a variety of services to publicly-held corporations on a compensation basis.
He is the also the founder of Trinity Financial Sports & Entertainment Management Co., a firm with a Christian perspective which he started in 2001 with former NY Giant and two-time Super Bowl champion Lee Rouson. The firm offers services to celebrities, athletes and average folks. Peter Grandich is a member of the National Association of Christian Financial Consultants, and a long-standing member of The New York Society of Security Analysts and The Society of Quantitative Analysts. Grandich is also very active in Christian sports ministries including the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Athletes in Action. He resides in New Jersey with his wife Mary and daughter Tara.
DANIELLE PARK
Portfolio Manager, attorney, finance author and a regular guest on North American media, Danielle Park is the author of the best selling myth-busting book “Juggling Dynamite: An insider’s wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts,” as well as a popular daily financial blog:www.jugglingdynamite.com .
Danielle worked as an attorney until 1997 when she was recruited to work for an international securities firm. Becoming a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), she now helps to manage millions for more than 200 of North America’s wealthiest families as a Portfolio Manager and analyst at the independent investment counsel firm she co-founded Venable Park Investment Counsel Inc. In recent years Danielle has been writing, speaking and educating industry professionals as well as investors on the risks and realities of investment behaviors.
A member of the internationally recognized CFA Institute, Toronto Society of Financial Analysts, and the Law Society of Upper Canada. Danielle is also an avid health and fitness buff.
DON VIALOUX
As Past President and current Director of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA), Don Vialoux has thirty-seven years of experience in the investment industry. He has provided technical analysis services for RBC Investments as well being the author of a daily letter on equity markets available free on the internet. The letter can be accessed at www.timingthemarket.ca.
Don is also the author of a weekly column each Saturday in the Financial Post that combines technical, fundamental and seasonality analysis.