THE GEORGE JARKESY SHOW WELCOMES SPECIAL GUEST WAYNE FERBERT, CO-AUTHOR OF THE BOOK ‘BUY AND HEDGE: THE 5 IRON RULES FOR INVESTING OVER THE LONG TERM.’ THE SHOW ALSO WELCOMES MATT FERRIS, CHAIRMAN OF THE US GOLD BUREAU, AND JEFF MILLER. 

WAYNE FERBERT

Wayne Ferbert is a cofounder and principal of ZEGA Financial, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor.

He has spent his entire 17-year career in financial services, with 10 of them in the online brokerage segment with TD Ameritrade. In addition to managing business development as a member of the Senior Operating Committee at TD Ameritrade, which included M&A and market research, he ran product development. Prior to Ameritrade, he worked in planning and analysis roles at a Fortune 500 insurance firm and then a Fortune 500 bank.

Wayne has an MBA in finance from Loyola (Md.) and a BSBA in finance from Bucknell University. He has his series 65 license. He resides in Ellicott City, Md. with his family. He has three daughters, ages 6, 8, and 9, and coaches youth soccer.

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http://buyandhedge.com/home.htm

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http://www.linkedin.com/pub/wayne-ferbert/0/b43/991

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@BuyAndHedge

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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Buy-and-Hedge/

JOHN KICKLIGHTER

John Kicklighter is a currency strategist for FXCM in New York where he specializes in combining   fundamental and technical analysis with money management. John authors a number of regular articles for DailyFX.com, ranging in topics from basic fundamental forecasts for the G10 economies and commodities to more complex subjects like the level of risk sentiment across the financial markets and the carry trade specifically.  John has actively traded since he was a teenager. His experience ranges from spot currency, financial futures, commodities, stocks, and options on all of these instruments for his personal accounts. John graduated from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York with a Bachelors degree in Finance and Investment.

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@JohnKicklighter

MATT FERRIS

Matt Ferris is the Chairman of the United States Gold Bureau, a physical precious metals company headquartered in Austin, Texas.  The Company was targeted for takeover by Mr. Ferris and his associates following the identification of opportunities for significant improvement in the management and operations of the firm, in addition to the long-term outlook for hard assets over the coming decades.  Mr. Ferris, along with his business partners and management team restructured the Company in 2008 and are now guiding its healthy, rapid growth.

In addition to serving as the Chairman of the United States Gold Bureau, Mr. Ferris is an active investor and entrepreneur; he is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mr. Ferris has significant experience in international business, especially in Asia.  Prior to acquiring the United States Gold Bureau, Mr. Ferris founded a consumer products business that solved a significant problem in residential fire safety.

Most recently, Mr. Ferris has taken an active role in evaluating and seeking solutions for regulatory and political pressures that are affecting the rare coin and precious metals industry.  In order to ensure that private citizens retain unrestricted access to precious metals, he became a founding member of the Gold and Silver PAC.

In his spare time, Matt is an avid water skier.  Mr. Ferris holds an MBA in international business and entrepreneurship from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, in addition to a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the California State University at Chico.

WEBSITE

www.neaagold.com

LINKEDIN

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-ferris/31/358/a6

JEFF MILLER

Jeff, author of A Dash of Insight, is a former college professor with a hands-on, real world attitude. His quantitative modeling helped inform state and local officials in Wisconsin for more than a decade. A Public Policy analyst, he taught advanced research methods at the University of Wisconsin, and analyzed many issues related to state tax policy.Jeff has worked for market makers at the Chicago Board Options Exchange where his approach included finding anomalies in the standard option pricing models and developing new forecasting techniques. In 1991 he has set up a general research consultancy for professional traders at all of the Chicago financial exchanges. In 1998 he started NewArc Investments, Inc., a company that manages both institutional and individual accounts.Jeff has a commitment to the specific needs of individual investors. NewArc offers six different programs. It is not a one-size-fits all approach, but one that emphasizes the risk/reward needs of each client.

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