Brian Pretti Bio & Archive

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BIO

Brian Pretti is the managing editor of ContraryInvestor.com. Contrary Investor is written, edited and published by a very small group of "real world" institutional buy-side portfolio managers and analysts with, at minimum, 20 years of individual Street experience. Our credentials include CFA, CPA and CFP, as well as the obligatory MBA's in Finance. We are all either partners or employees of institutions with at least $1 billion under management.

OBSERVATIONS ARCHIVES

10/30/2009  Running Government Interference
10/16/2009  Estimated Prophet
10/02/2009  Bucking the Trend?
09/18/2009  More or Less
09/04/2009  The "Other" Real Estate Issue - Revisited
08/21/2009  An Important "Conference Call"?
08/07/2009  Generational Earthquakes?
07/24/2009  Ghost Writers In the Sky
07/10/2009  Going With the Flow
06/26/2009  Five Fatal Flaws of Trading
06/12/2009  Pension Tension
06/05/2009  Place Your Wagers
05/22/2009  What are Payrolls Telling Us About the Equity Market?
05/01/2009  Of Fingers and Dikes
04/24/2009  The Service Economy
04/09/2009  I've Got Friends In Low Places
03/27/2009  The CFO Nose
03/13/2009  Survey Says
02/27/2009  The Most Important Messages From the 4Q GDP Report
02/13/2009  We've Only Just Begun?
01/30/2009  Bench Strength
01/23/2009  Who Needs Economists When We Have the Home Builders?
01/16/2009  Fair Retails
01/02/2009  Homes For the Holidays
12/19/2008  The View From the Executive Sweet?
12/05/2008  Yield Up Ahead?
11/21/2008  If We Make It Through December
11/07/2008  The Bigger Picture?
10/24/2008  Changing the Frequency
10/10/2008  The Other Consumer Confidence Report
09/26/2008  Um... Are We Forgetting Something Here?
09/12/2008  Fun With Funding
08/29/2008  Stool Pigeons
08/15/2008  The Amber Waves of Pain?
08/01/2008  Doscientos Mes
07/18/2008  Elephant Talk
06/20/2008  Cash Out Of Luck?
06/06/2008  The Many Faces of Inflation
05/23/2008  Cool, Clear Water
05/09/2008  Slowly I Turned
04/25/2008  Phase Dance
04/11/2008  Wagging the Dog
03/28/2008  Good to the Last Drop?
03/14/2008  The Bottom Card
02/29/2008  The Far Too Simple Beauty of the Promises We've Made
02/15/2008  Fair Retails?
02/01/2008  The Last Asset Bubble
01/18/2008  Those Twins
01/04/2008  Will the Truly Efficient Market Please Stand Up?
12/21/2007  The CFO Nose
12/07/2007  The "Other" Credit Market
11/23/2007  A Lump of Coal?
11/09/2007  A Simple Twist of Fate?
10/26/2007  Getting Carried Away?
10/12/2007  The (Price) Discovery Channel
09/28/2007  Contain This
09/14/2007  Farewell to ARMs
08/31/2007  Just Roll With It?
08/17/2007  Stress Management
08/03/2007  Going With the Flow?
07/20/2007  Rise and Shine?
06/29/2007  As Per the Script?
06/22/2007  The "State" of Affairs in Mortgage Lending
06/08/2007  The Inflation Maize
05/25/2007  Bail Bonds
05/11/2007  Taking It To the Bank(s)
04/27/2007  Deficit Attention Syndrome
04/13/2007  Jumping the Fire Lines?
03/30/2007  It's Delightful, It's Delovely, It's Deleverage!
03/16/2007  Looking Out the Window
03/02/2007  Love Triangle?
02/16/2007  Davos and Goliath
02/02/2007  We're Swimming in Liquidity, Aren't We?
01/19/2007  Four More Years?
01/05/2007  Homeland Insecurity?

Contact Information

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