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onald L. Luskin, Chief Investment Officer, Trend Macrolytics LLC
DONALD L. LUSKIN
Chief Investment Officer
Trend Macrolytics LLC


Donald L. Luskin is chief 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, where he worked with the world's largest institutional investors to create innovative indexing and quantitative investment management strategies.

After Barclays, Don was CEO and co-founder of MetaMarkets.com, and manager of the pathbreaking OpenFund -- the world's first mutual fund to disclose 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 runs a web-log based on his forthcoming book, The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid -- in which he examines the obstacles to wealth creation by ordinary people. 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 & Company.

Don's column is published weekly on SmartMoney.com he contributes frequently to National Review Online. Don appears regularly on CNBC's "Kudlow & Company" and on Bloomberg TV, CNN and Fox News. He was formerly a columnist for TheStreet.com and Business 2.0. His commentaries have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Pensions & Investments, the American Spectator, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Detroit News.


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Current DateTime: 10:51:34 04 Dec 2008
LinksList Documentid: 24732000
    • Which is the Better Bet: Gold or Cash?  08 Oct 2008

        Invest in gold as it may hit $2,000 a troy ounce in the next 6 months, advises Donald Luskin, CIO of Trend Macrolytics. But Graeme Maxton, chief economist, Asia at The Insight Bureau disagrees, preferring cash instead. They make their case to CNBC's Amanda Drury.

    • Rate Hikes the Way to Go?  08 Oct 2008

        We're going wrong way with global rate cuts as rates should have been raised instead, says Graeme Maxton, chief economist, Asia at The Insight Bureau. Maxton & Donald Luskin, CIO of Trend Macrolytics debate the merits of hiking rates, with CNBC's Amanda Drury.

    • The "Paulson Effect"  08 Oct 2008

        People are trading the "Paulson Effect" -- every time U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson takes the stage and talks about the situation, the markets go down, notes Daniel Frishberg, chief investment strategist at LafferFrishberg.com. Frishberg & Donald Luskin, CIO of Trend Macrolytics discuss the phenomena with CNBC's Amanda Drury.

    • Are Global Rate Cuts Effective?  08 Oct 2008

        U.S. stocks continued their losing streak Wednesday, despite the coordinated global rate cuts. Will the rate cuts work? Donald Luskin, CIO of Trend Macrolytics & Daniel Frishberg, chief investment strategist at LafferFrishberg.com offer their opposing views to CNBC's Amanda Drury.

    • Alcoa Beats the Street  08 Jul 2008

        Alcoa reported a smaller-than-expected drop in second-quarter net profits as higher aluminium prices and sales volumes helped offset steep input costs. Charles Bradford, metals analyst at Soleil Securities & Donald Luskin, CIO at Trend Macrolytics review its results, with CNBC's Amanda Drury, Martin Soong & Sri Jegarajah.

    • Prospect of US Financials  08 Jul 2008

        As Donald Luskin, CIO at Trend Macrolytics believes subprime lending was the U.S. financials' best idea, he questions where their future earnings will come from. He tells CNBC's Martin Soong, Amanda Drury & Sri Jegarajah more.

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