Porter Stansberry
Porter Stansberry founded Stansberry & Associates Investment Research LLC, a private publishing company based in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1999. His monthly newsletter, Porter Stansberry’s Investment Advisory, deals with safe value investments poised to give subscribers years of exceptional returns. Porter oversees a staff of investment experts whose expertise range from value investing to insider trading to short selling. Together, Porter and his research team do exhaustive amounts of real-world, independent research. They’ve visited more than 200 companies over the past five years, in order to find the best low-risk investments in the world.

Prior to launching Stansberry & Associates Research, Porter was the first American editor of the Fleet Street Letter, the oldest English-language financial newsletter.

Dr. Steve Sjuggerud
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes True Wealth, a monthly investment advisory that boasts one of the largest followings in the world. He specializes in safe, unique investments that have been overlooked by Wall Street, including gold coins, Japanese real estate, timberland, and Icelandic bonds. Steve also produces Sjuggerud Confidential, an exclusive service focused on more speculative trades that often prove to be highly profitable.

Quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and The Washington Post, Steve is the co-author of Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom, a best-selling book on investment strategies. He is a former stockbroker and vice president of trading at a $50 million international hedge fund. He holds a doctorate in finance (his dissertation covered emerging-market currencies) and has spoken at dozens of investment conferences around the country.

Dan Ferris
Dan Ferris writes Extreme Value, a monthly investment advisory that focuses primarily on great businesses trading at steep discounts. Dan’s strategy of safe and cheap stocks has earned him one of the most impressive track records in the industry.

Tom Dyson
Tom Dyson is the resident bond, fixed income and high yield expert at Stansberry Research. He writes the 12% Letter and is a contributing editor, with Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, of DailyWealth.

Tom made his first trade age 12. The stock returned 300% in less than 9 months. Tom started his professional career at Salomon Brothers, and later Citigroup, working for an international bond trading desk in London. In 2003, he qualified to the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, left Citigroup and moved to the USA to become a fixed income analyst at Stansberry Research.

Matt Badiali
Matt Badiali is the editor of the S&A Oil Report, a monthly investment advisory that focuses primarily on oil as an investment — from small exploration outfits, to equipment companies, to the biggest oil companies in the world.

Matt also researches and writes the S&A Prospector, a monthly advisory that focuses on the best precious metal and natural-resource plays in the world. He has a Masters in Geology from Florida Atlantic University and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the same field. Matt has real-world experience as a hydrologist, geologist, and a consultant to the oil industry.

Rob Fannon
Rob Fannon writes Phase 1 Investor, a monthly investment advisory and conference-call service that targets the fast-moving universe of small-cap stocks, particularly breakthrough businesses on the cutting edges of their industries.

Rob studied physiology and biochemistry as an undergraduate, and has worked at the lab bench in both academia and the private sector. He helped open a new biotechnology company in India, worked as a researcher at the prestigious Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and holds a master’s degree in public health and an MBA, both from Johns Hopkins University.

George Huang
Dr. George Huang specializes in obtaining exclusive information from top universities, labs, and venture capital firms about new technologies in the medical sector. He holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins’ School of Medicine, where he worked under a 2003 Nobel Laureate in chemistry. He speaks three languages, has worked for a Canadian bioinformatics firm, and is published in the four best journals of his field.

In 2008, George launched The S&A FDA Report, which uses a proprietary new strategy to find short-term opportunities in the biotech sector with enormous upside potential and limited risk.

Jeff Clark
Jeff Clark is the editor of The Short Report, an investment advisory that finds extremely overpriced securities set for a sudden fall. Clark is the former president and chief executive officer of an independent, San Francisco-based brokerage house, and the founder of an investor education firm. Jeff has served as a consultant to one of the country’s largest options market-making firms, and he has also developed the curricula for an international Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program.

This year, Jeff started another research service called Advanced Income, a research service focused on providing a steady stream of high income payments. Using his techniques he can show you how to pocket thousands of extra dollars in the next 24 hours, no matter what happens in the stock market.

Brian Heyliger
Brian Heyliger writes Inside Strategist, a weekly trading service focused on using insider activity to gain an advantage in the market. No matter how much information you have or how quickly you can get it, insiders always get it faster and make more money in the market than the average investor.

Formerly an advanced software developer for government agencies and corporations, Brian made such a great second "career" as a real estate and equity investor, he found his conventional job simply didn't pay as well as finding great investments. Now, he finds unique investment opportunities for his readers, each week showing them how to legally profit from insider trading.

Sean Goldsmith
Sean Goldsmith writes the S&A Dividend Grabber, an investment advisory that shows readers how to profit from “special situation” plays. Each month, Sean describes the best way to make money off some of the market’s most unusual developments, including mergers, spinoffs, turnarounds, restructurings, employee buyouts, and, in particular, special dividends.

Sean also heads up the Monthly Dividend Program, S&A’s first-ever investment course. It’s a simple, step-by-step program that shows you an easy way to get all the income you need, for as long as you need it, by owning the absolute best monthly-dividend-paying stocks in the world.

Ian Davis
Ian edits The Quant Trader, which uses a mathematical approach to finding stocks that are hated, cheap, and in an uptrend. Ian specializes in quantitative data gathering and has worked closely with Dr. Steve Sjuggerud to develop trading strategies based on
trend, sentiment, and value.