Jack Schwager (born 1948)
is a
trader and
author
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. His books include ''Market Wizards'' (1989), ''The New Market Wizards'' (1992), ''Stock Market Wizards'' (2001) and ''Unknown Market Wizards: The best traders you've never heard of'' (2020).
He is a well-known author, fund manager and an industry expert in
futures
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Finance
*Futures contract, a tradable financial derivatives contract
*Futures exchange, a financial market where futures contracts are traded
*''Modern Trader'', formerly Futures, an American finance magazine
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and hedge funds. He's published a number of books, such as ''Market Wizards''.
Biography
He holds a
BA in Economics from
Brooklyn College
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(1970) and an
MA in Economics from
Brown University
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(1971).
He is currently the co-portfolio manager for the ADM Investor Services Diversified Strategies Fund, a portfolio of futures and FX managed accounts. He is also an adviser to Catalytic Investment Group Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based fund management company, for their multi-manager multi-strategy fund. Previously, he was a partner in the Fortune Group, a London-based hedge fund advisory firm, which specialized in creating customized hedge fund portfolios for institutional clients. His prior experience includes 22 years as Director of Futures research for some of Wall Street's leading firms and 10 years as the co-principal of a CTA.
He has written extensively on the futures industry and great traders in all financial markets. He is perhaps best known for his best-selling series of interviews with the greatest hedge fund managers of the last two decades: ''Market Wizards'' (1989), ''The New Market Wizards'' (1992), and ''Stock Market Wizards'' (2001). The fourth book in the series, ''Hedge Fund Market Wizards'', was released in May 2012.
Schwager's first book, ''A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets'' (1984) is considered to be one of the classic reference works in the field.
Books
References
Further reading
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External links
Video interviewwith ''Opalesque TV''
Podcast interviewwith ''IG Group''
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1948 births
Living people
American finance and investment writers