The Iconoclast Investor is a place for the editors at Cabot to discuss the stock market, investing and relevant news. We want to welcome you to the discussion and encourage you to share your views. Come back often to hear what’s on our minds and share what’s on yours.

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Meet The Iconoclast Investor and Cabot editors:

Elyse Andrews became The Iconoclast Investor’s moderator after she joined the Cabot team as the editor of Cabot Wealth Advisory. Cabot Wealth Advisory is a free email newsletter that offers independent, no-nonsense investment advice on how to build long-lasting wealth from Cabot’s team of analysts and editors. Before joining Cabot, Elyse worked at various newspapers around the country. She worked as a writer and researcher at USA Today, a copy editor for the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund in Washington state and as a copy editor and page designer at Newsday on Long Island. Elyse has a dual degree in newspaper journalism and political science from Syracuse University.

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Timothy Lutts heads one of America’s most respected independent investment advisory services, publishing 10 newsletters to over 170,000 subscribers around the world. He leads a dedicated team of professionals who serve individual investors with high-quality investment advice based on time-tested Cabot systems. Timothy also edits Cabot Stock of the Month Report. Under his leadership, Cabot advisories have been honored numerous times by Timer Digest, Hulbert Financial Digest and Dow Jones MarketWatch as the top investment newsletters in the industry. In 2007, Cabot was the only publisher with two investment advisories, Cabot Market Letter and Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report, ranked among the top 10 investment newsletters by Hulbert. Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report was also named 2008 Best Financial Advisory Newsletter by the Specialized Information Publishers Foundation and is currently the #1 newsletter for five years as ranked by Hulbert Financial Digest. Cabot Market Letter was recently honored as one of Timer Digest’s Top Ten Long Term Timers for two years.

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A growth stock and market timing expert, Michael Cintolo is editor of Cabot Market Letter and Cabot Top Ten Report. In his 10 years at Cabot, he has uncovered exceptional growth stocks and helped to create new tools and rules for buying and selling stocks. Perhaps most notable was his development of the proprietary trend-following market timing system, Cabot Tides, that has helped Cabot place among the top handful of market-timing newsletters numerous times. An avid student of the market, Mike has appeared at the World Money Show in Orlando and is a regular guest on TopStockAnalysts.com, WallSt.net and WallStreetReporter.com. He has attended the Investor’s Business Daily Level II and Level III Seminars and holds a B.S. in finance from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Cabot Market Letter was recently honored as one of Timer Digest’s Top Ten Long Term Timers for two years.

Brendan Coffey is a member of the Cabot investment team and editor of Cabot Green Investor. A veteran financial journalist, Brendan has spent more than a decade writing about investing for publications including Barron’s, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and a number of private-client brokerage newsletters. Adept at trend-spotting, Brendan’s work has been required reading at Harvard and Marquette business schools and favorably cited by outlets as diverse as The New York Times and the A&E television network. On more than one occasion, he has talked investing strategy one-on-one with the world’s savviest investors, people like Carl Icahn, Felix Rohatyn, Larry Tisch, Al West (who founded SEI Investments) and Mort Zuckerman. With earth-friendly investing growing into its own, Brendan draws upon insights gleaned from covering everything from the Brazilian ethanol market to the global bottled water craze and filters it through Cabot’s proven system for identifying and capitalizing on fast-growing stocks.

A lifelong investment professional, J. Royden Ward applies his 40 years of investment research, portfolio management, writing and publishing experience to his role as analyst and editor of Cabot Benjamin Graham Value Letter. Cabot Benjamin Graham Value Letter is directed to long-term investors seeking a guide to profitable value investing based on the time-tested systems originally developed by Benjamin Graham. Since the 1930s, Benjamin Graham’s timeless value investing approach achieved returns of 20% per year with low risk regardless of the market’s ups and downs. Graham taught or influenced later investment gurus Warren Buffett, Mario Gabelli, John Neff, Michael Price, John Bogle—and Cabot Benjamin Graham Value Letter editor J. Royden Ward. A second-generation disciple of Benjamin Graham, Roy in 1969 pioneered the development of a computerized model that applied the formulas developed by Graham using a unique ranking system. Today, Roy applies his system to two models in the Value Letter. Prior to joining Cabot, Roy directed all facets of the investment divisions for several financial planning/investment advisor organizations and successfully managed and monitored the performance of 300 individual accounts for investors using stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Roy is a Registered Investment Advisor and holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a major in Finance and Investments from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Paul Goodwin is a member of the Cabot investment team, and analyst and editor of Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report. Under Paul’s stewardship, the Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report was ranked by Hulbert Financial Digest as the top-performing newsletter for two years in a row: in 2006 with a 76% gain and 2007 with a 74.1% gain. Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report was also named Investment Letter of the Year for 2007 by Peter Brimelow of MarketWatch and Best Financial Advisory Newsletter in 2008 by the Specialized Information Publishers Foundation. As of October 31, 2009, Hulbert ranks Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report as the top-performing newsletter for the past five years. A researcher and writer for over 30 years, Paul brings a lifetime of inquiry to the task of figuring out whether stocks and markets are likely to go up or down. Prior to joining Cabot, Paul was a senior financial writer for Putnam Investments’ international and institutional communications, writer and information designer for a consulting design firm, writer/editor of Trivial Pursuit games for Parker Brothers, professor at the University of New Hampshire, and a Chinese linguist for the U.S. Army Security Agency.

Thomas Garrity is analyst and editor of the limited-subscription newsletter, Cabot Small-Cap Confidential. A lifelong investor, Tom has been a stockbroker, stock analyst, venture capitalist, and portfolio manager. His long career and varied experiences taught Tom to make investments only when the odds of winning significantly outweigh the risks. He applies this philosophy to every stock he recommends in Cabot Small-Cap Confidential.  Tom has developed a disciplined investment methodology using a series of qualitative and quantitative metrics that are evaluated for each company under his investment consideration. The company’s products must target large markets, the science or technology must be proven, the balance sheet must be strong enough to support research or investment activity, and the idea must be strong enough to attract future institutional investment. Tom’s analysis results in a portfolio of stocks of companies that are pioneers in their areas of business. In most cases, these companies are creating whole new micro-industries, providing essential tools for an entire industry’s growth. Because these stocks have little or no institutional or research coverage, Small-Cap Confidential subscribers can acquire significant positions in these companies more cheaply than if their stocks were widely followed. Tom is a licensed Security Analyst and holds a B.S. in Finance from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.