Contributors
MONEY MORNING’S WORLDWIDE TEAM OF GLOBAL INVESTING EXPERTS:
Money Morning relies on a team with substantial international investing expertise to bring you the latest and best market intelligence from all around the globe. Here’s a quick introduction to the main members of our worldwide research team.
Keith Fitz-Gerald is the Chief Investment Strategist for Money Map Press LLC, as well as for Money Morning, a daily global investing news service with more than 500,000 daily readers in 30 countries. He is one of the world’s leading experts on global investing, particularly when it comes to Asia’s emergence as a global powerhouse. Fitz-Gerald’s specialized investment research services – The Money Map Report, the New China Trader, The Geiger Index and The Time Trader Pro – lead the way in financial analysis and investing recommendations for the new economy. Fitz-Gerald is a former professional trade advisor and licensed CTA who advised institutions and qualified individuals on global futures trading and hedging. He is a Fellow of the Kenos Circle, a think tank based in Vienna, Austria, that’s dedicated to the identification of economic and financial trends using the science of complexity. Fitz-Gerald, his wife and two children split their time between the United States and Japan. Fitz-Gerald routinely travels the world in search of investment opportunities others don’t yet see or understand. Keith is also the author of Fiscal Hangover: Protect Your Money and Profit in the Global Economy, published by John Wiley & Sons, November 2009.
Martin O. Hutchinson is a Contributing Editor to both the Money Map Report and Money Morning. An investment banker with more than 25 years’ experience, Hutchinson has worked on both Wall Street and Fleet Street and is a leading expert on the international financial markets
At Creditanstalt-Bankverein, Hutchinson was a Senior Vice President in charge of the institution’s derivative operations, one of the most challenging units to run. He also served as a director of Gestion Integral de Negocios, a Spanish private-equity firm, and as an advisor to the Korean conglomerate, Sunkyong Corp.
But it was Hutchinson’s work in Bulgaria, Croatia and Macedonia that solidified his reputation as a true “hands-on” expert on the developing economies. As the U.S. Treasury Advisor to Croatia in 1996, he helped the country establish its own T-bill program, launch its first government bond issue, and start a forward currency market.
In February 2000, as part of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, Hutchinson became an advisor to the Republic of Macedonia, working directly with Minister of Finance Nikola Gruevski (now that country’s Prime Minister). The nation had been staggered by the breakup of Yugoslavia – in which 800,000 Macedonians lost their life savings – and then the Kosovo War. Under Hutchinson’s guidance, the country issued 12-year bonds, and created a market for the bonds to trade. The bottom line: Macedonians were able to sell their bonds for cash, and many recouped more than three-quarters of what they’d lost – to the tune of about $1 billion.
Hutchinson returned to the United States, was named Business and Economics Editor at United Press International, and was able to jump-start the financial-news operation of that historic wire service. In October 2000, Hutchinson began writing “The Bear’s Lair,” a weekly investment column that appears on the Prudent Bear Web site.
Hutchinson earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Cambridge University, and an MBA from Harvard University. He lives near Washington, D.C.
Martin Hutchinson currently launched his Permanent Wealth Investor service that shows you how to collect a guaranteed $4,201 by June 4th – or any higher or lower amount you choose – in his simple 3 step Permanent Wealth building program.
Horacio R. Marquez is Emerging Market Specialist and Editor of the Money Map Report, and the Money Map VIP Trader.
A native of Argentina, Marquez has more than 20 years’ experience as an investment banker, and is a recognized expert on both banking and investing strategies, as well as on the emerging markets of Latin America. He is also recognized as one of the investment industry’s most-talented research analysts.
In fact, it was two stunning and well-publicized predictions he made in 1994 – while serving as a vice president of the Merrill Lynch Emerging Markets Fixed Income Group – that cemented Marquez’s reputation as one of Wall Street’s foremost experts on emerging-markets finance.
In the fall of 1994, at a time when Argentina was viewed as a highly favorable investment, Marquez correctly reasoned that a recent change in the country’s tax policy made a debt default inevitable. After making that controversial prediction public, Marquez reasoned that Mexico was on a similar path, and predicted the same outcome for that market. Both countries had major currency crises by the end of that year.
During his 25-year career, Marquez has held positions in such well-known financial firms as Touche Ross & Co., Barclay’s Bank, Swiss Bank, First National Bank of Boston and ADP Capital Management. He has also worked as a consultant, and as an institutional investment manager.
These experiences have allowed Marquez to develop and then refine a financial-analysis approach that has enabled him to repeatedly predict major market reversals, while also identifying top investment opportunities in both stocks and bonds.
Marquez earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration, and a Master’s Degree in Industrial Administration from Pittsburgh’s prestigious Carnegie-Mellon University. He currently lives in Princeton.
William (Bill) Patalon III is the Executive Editor and Senior Research Analyst for Money Morning, and The Money Map Report. Before he moved into the investment-research business in December 2005, Patalon spent 22 years as a journalist, most of it covering financial news as a reporter, columnist, and editor that included stints with Gannett Co. Inc., and The Baltimore Sun.
Patalon has covered finance and investing, economics, manufacturing, the defense sector, biotechnology, and telecommunications. The companies he’s covered include Eastman Kodak, Xerox, Harley-Davidson, Caterpillar, Westinghouse Electric, Verizon, MedImmune, and Black & Decker.
His most-memorable interviews include: Former President Richard M. Nixon, General Electric CEO John F. “Jack” Welch, Forbes magazine publisher and former Presidential candidate Steve Forbes, and business-turnaround specialist and helicopter-industry pioneer Stanley Hiller Jr.
It was Patalon’s work covering Eastman Kodak Co., during the last half of the 1990s that solidified his reputation as one of the nation’s top analytical business journalists. With his award-winning reports on Kodak’s competitive travails, he consistently scooped his competitors in the national business media. His chronicles of Kodak’s turnaround efforts took him to China, Japan, Silicon Valley, New York, Washington, D.C., and even Hollywood.
Patalon’s work has appeared in Kiplinger’s personal finance magazine, USA Today, and The South China Morning Post, among other publications. A winner of approximately two-dozen journalism awards – including top honors from The Associated Press and the prestigious Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). Patalon is also the co-author of the Prentice Hall book, Contrarian Investing: How to Buy and Sell When Others Won’t and Make Money Doing it. Before taking over as managing editor of Money Morning, he served as the editor of The Rebound Report, an investment newsletter focusing on turnaround stocks.
Patalon has a BA in Print Journalism from Penn State University, and an MBA in finance from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He lives near Baltimore.
Jon D. Markman brings a unique perspective and unparalleled insights to his role as a Money Morning contributor. And with good reason: During the past two decades, Markman has worked as both a journalist/commentator and as an actual portfolio manager. In addition to his contributions to Money Morning, Markman manages The Markman Portfolios, and is the editor of two premium investment research services: Strategic Advantage and Trader’s Advantage.
From 1982 to 1997, Markman was an editor, reporter and investments columnist at the Los Angeles Times. In 1992 and 1994 he was a news editor on staffs that won Pulitzer Prizes, the top award a journalist can receive. From 1997 to 2002, Markman was managing editor of CNBC on MSN Money. He received Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists regional and national awards for his 2001 reporting on the Enron scandal, as well as for his work chronicling the financial impact of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. He has also received the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism for his work exposing flaws in the management of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index
Markman is the author of two best-selling books: Online Investing (1999) and Swing Trading (2003). A third book – an annotated version of the widely read investment classic, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – is due out in January. Markman is also the co-inventor on two investment-software patents.
A graduate of both Duke University and Columbia University, Markman is a regular guest on radio and television, and at investment conferences – sought out for his insights on stocks, credit and the global economy. Markman lives with his family in Seattle.
