Joe Austin joined Chaikin Analytics in July 2024 as an editor and senior analyst. Before that, he spent four decades in the financial-services industry…
Joe began his Wall Street career as a research analyst for the technology sector in 1984. Along the way, he also served as a senior portfolio manager on a more than $10 billion value equity product and a $80 million long-short science and tech hedge fund. And he provided research coverage of the tech sector for a $5 billion hedge fund.
In the second half of his career, Joe moved into marketing and business development for alternative asset managers. In this role, his strategies included global long-short equity, distressed debt and activist equity, and a natural resource-focused private equity fund.
Joe has worked with all sorts of investors in his long career – including endowments, foundations, pension funds, investment consultants, and some of the country’s wealthiest and most prominent families.
And now, he’s bringing his knowledge and skills to individual investors like you at Chaikin Analytics.
Joe’s Latest Content
Mixed Signals in Software Stocks
It's called the "SaaSpocalypse"... Software stocks crashed so hard that some investors thought it was the end of the world....
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How I Think About Risk With Four Stocks
When it comes to stocks, you're lucky to be able to choose your bets... In yesterday's essay, I talked about...
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An Orange, a Loan, and a Lesson
My dad grew up during the Great Depression... He was the son of a tobacco farmer in southern Virginia, the...
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Even the CEO of IBM Got This Wrong
Editor's note: Folks, we've seen a lot of upheaval in the markets lately... In particular, the tech sector has been...
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