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Meet the Investment U Team
Alexander Green, Chairman, Investment U; Investment Director, The Oxford Club
At the height of the stock market boom in the late 1990s, Alexander Green walked away from a prestigious position with one of the country’s leading money-management firms – retiring from Wall Street after 16 years at the ripe old age of 43. He returned more than half of a $510,000 signing bonus. That’s when he became Investment Director for Investment U’s premium stock advisory service, The Oxford Club – a private financial organization dedicated to building and preserving the wealth of its members, independent of Wall Street’s dubious influence.
And his decision paid off…
The Hulbert Financial Digest, the industry’s top watchdog, has since ranked Alex’s stock selections 3rd in the nation overall, based on their five-year, risk-adjusted return. Learn more.
When Alex isn’t making money for Oxford Club members, or giving Investment U readers free advice, his knowledge is in high demand. He’s been profiled on Forbes.com, written for Louis Rukeyser and several other leading financial publications, and was recently featured on the Fox News’ ‘The O’Reilly Factor.’ He’s also a top-rated speaker at financial conferences around the country.
Dr. Mark Skousen, Advisory Panelist, Investment U
Dr. Mark Skousen became chairman of Investment U in October 2005. He is an economist who has taught finance and economics at Columbia Business School, Barnard College at Columbia University, and Rollins College in Winter Park, FL. Dr. Skousen is editor in chief of Forecasts & Strategies– an award-winning investment newsletter – and three trading services. In April 2005, Grantham University honored Dr. Skousen by renaming its School of Business “The Mark Skousen School of Business.” In 2001-02, he was president of the Foundation of Economic Education (FEE) in New York. From 1972-75, Dr. Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA. Since then, he has been a consultant to IBM, Hutchinson Technology and other Fortune 500 companies. He was also a columnist for Forbes magazine from 1997-01, and has written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Liberty, Reason, and The Journal of Economic Perspectives. He has appeared on ABC News, CNBC Power Lunch, CNN, Fox News and C-SPAN Book TV.
Julia Guth, Founder, Investment U
It was under Ms. Guth’s direction that Dr. Sjuggerud became the chairman of Investment U in 2001 followed by Dr. Skousen in 2005 and Alexander Green in 2007. Since founding Investment U in 1999, Ms. Guth has worked side by side with Dr. Sjuggerud and Dr. Skousen to develop the initial Investment U seminars, the Investment U course, an upcoming advanced Investment U seminar after the e-letter first landed in 2001. In addition to her duties as Investment U publisher, she’s also been the executive director of The Oxford Club for 14 years. For readers of Investment U and members of The Oxford Club, she is a tireless advocate for their respective goals and values. Ms. Guth holds an MBA from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management. A former specialist for Maryland’s Office of International Trade, Ms. Guth was also an investment services representative for one of the country’s leading financial services firms.
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud served as the chairman of Investment U from the inaugural issue in 
December 2001 through October 2005, penning more than 400 Investment U e-letter issues. Dr. Sjuggerud is also the editor of True Wealth, one of the fastest-growing investment newsletters in the country. He’s a former investment director of The Oxford Club and an expert on global investing and emerging-market currencies. During his far-reaching investment career, Dr. Sjuggerud ran a global mutual fund, directed his own offshore hedge fund, and served as the research director for an international investment advisory firm. In addition, he’s often quoted in places like WSJ.com and Barron’s.
Dr. Van K. Tharp
Dr. Tharp has been a peak performance coach for investors and traders since 1982. He is the only trading coach featured by Jack Schwager in his best-seller The Market Wizards: Interviews with Great Traders. He is the founder of Investment Psychology, Van K. Tharp Associates and the International Institute of Trading Mastery. Over the last 12 years, Dr. Tharp has collected profiles on more than 4,000 investors and traders, consolidating over a decade of research to determine how the most successful investors and traders get their results. He received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1975, and is an expert in the use of NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) for creating trading models.
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