Dr. Stephen Leeb is a recognized authority on the stock market, macroeconomic trends and commodities, especially oil and precious metals.
Dr. Leeb is also founder of the Leeb Group, which publishes a line of financial newsletters including The Complete Investor, Leeb's Income Performance Letter, Leeb's Real World Investing e-letter, and Leeb's Aggressive Trader, Leeb’s Million Dollar Portfolio and Leeb’s ETF World Alert e-letter. His total readership exceeds 250,000. The Complete Investor newsletter has earned two awards for Editorial Excellence.
Dr. Leeb sits on various boards sharing his strategic perspectives on financial markets and natural resources. Since 2008, Dr. Leeb has been a Director of Plain Sight Systems, a technology holding company centered at Yale University. Plain Sight owns a world-class patent portfolio in areas such as information organization/search, computational analytics, electro-optics, and spectroscopy. These technologies are licensed to Fortune 500 companies and used as part of private buyouts and venture spin-offs.
As part of Plain Sight, Dr. Leeb also sits on the board of Water Intelligence plc, due to be listed in June 2010 on AIM (London), operating in the water management space and Deep Markets Corporation, a division of Plain Sight developing next generation risk management applications.
Dr. Leeb is also Head of the Advisory Board of Leor Exploration & Production LLC (since 2006 - present) and a member of the advisory boards of Electrum USA Ltd. (since 2007) and Los Gatos. Each of these companies explore for natural resources, especially precious metals and energy.
Dr. Leeb is the author of seven books on investments and financial trends. His latest book, Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy (Business Plus, 2009) predicts a permanent peak in global commodity production.
His previous book, The New York Times best selling business book, The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel (Warner Books, 2006), predicted that tightness in global energy supplies would cause the American economy to oscillate between periods of recession and high inflation this century.
Dr. Leeb’s best seller, The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself and Profit from the Coming Energy Crisis (Warner Books, 2004), outlined the relationship between oil prices and stock market performance and accurately predicted the subsequent surge in oil prices. The book was rated among the top investment books of the year by Stock Trader's Almanac 2005.
His earlier best seller, Defying the Market: Profiting in the Turbulent Post-Technology Market Boom (McGraw-Hill; 1999) predicted the collapse of technology stocks and the growing importance of oil, and other hard assets during the 21st century. The book was selected by Library Journal as one of the Best Business Books of 1999.
His first book Getting in on the Ground Floor (Putnam, 1986) predicted the secular bull market in financial assets and the fall in inflation. The book was a main selection of the Money Book Club.
Dr. Leeb earned his Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He then completed both a Master's degree in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Illinois.
Gregory Dorsey, Portfolio Editor
Greg has spent 20-plus years analyzing stocks and writing on an array of investment topics. Before joining the Leeb team four years ago he ran an investment management firm which he founded. Prior to that he worked for 11 years at a leading investment newsletter publisher, researching stocks and providing clients with expert investment advice. Greg has written for and edited several award-winning newsletters during his career, including a five-year tenure as associate editor for Personal Finance. He specializes in providing readers with in-depth analysis of undervalued small stocks.
You may have seen Greg quoted in the press, including Barron’s, Investor’s Business Daily, Money Magazine and numerous syndicated columns in newspapers nationwide. He has also provided his views on the stock market and the economy as a guest on many television and radio programs and at investment conferences around the country.
He holds a bachelors degree in Economics and International Relations from the University of Delaware. Greg is a passionate guitarist, an avid sailor and a lousy golfer, he also enjoys chasing after his two young daughters.
Genia Turanova CFA, Editor
Ms. Turanova, CFA began her investment career as an equity and portfolio analyst at a New York-based boutique investment management company. Prior to that, she was teaching at Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. She holds an MBA in Finance and Investments from Honors MBA program at Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, New York.
