Martin Zweig
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Martin E. Zweig (born 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American stock investor, investment advisor and financial analyst.
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[edit] Education
Zweig started buying stocks as a teenager. Following high school, he earned degrees from three of nation's leading business schools, including a BSE from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1964, an MBA degree from the University of Miami in 1967, and a Ph.D. in finance from Michigan State University in 1969.
[edit] Winning on Wall Street
He started his career in the 1970s as an investment newsletter writer and contributed numerous articles to Barron's Magazine. He went on to become a successful and influential investment advisor on Wall Street, known for his exhaustive data studies. In 1986, Zweig authored the book, Winning on Wall Street (ISBN 0-446-52533-2). In it, he called Jesse Livermore one of his heroes and "one of the most fabulous traders of all time," recommending that people read the 1923 Edwin Lefèvre book, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.
[edit] Mutual fund manager
Zweig appeared regularly on PBS television's Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser and in 1992 he was voted into the program's Hall of Fame. It was on that very program five years earlier that he predicted the 1987 stock market crash. The publisher of the Zweig Forecast, he served as the Chairman of his "Zweig Fund" and the "Zweig Total Return Fund", until announcing his retirement in October, 2005.
[edit] Personal
While he maintains a home in The Hamptons and spends the majority of his time in Miami, Zweig is known for owning the most expensive apartment in Manhattan, a $70 million triplex penthouse atop the lavish Pierre Hotel.
He is a trustee of the Museum of American Financial History and is a member of the Wharton Undergraduate Executive Board.
