Benjamin Shepherd

Benjamin Shepherd is a recognized exchange-traded fund (ETF), mutual fund and stock expert with an extensive background analyzing time-tested funds, including their managers and strategies. Ben looks for investments that have proven themselves in both bull and bear markets. Ben also specializes in covering emerging markets, pinpointing the most dynamic investments in developing nations for market-beating growth.

Ben is an analyst for Global Income Edge and regularly contributes to Personal Finance, Investing Daily’s flagship product. 

Analyst Articles

Norway awarded its first new oil and gas leases in decades earlier this week, opening up ten new Arctic sites for exploration work to a handful of local and global drillers. These kinds of deals usually go unnoticed unless you happen to have a stake in the drillers awarded new… Read More

[from the 05/16/2016 edition of Breakthrough Tech Weekly]When you start a new company, you need a severe case of optimism. Building a business from the ground up is grueling work, especially when there are already major competitors in your market. While Workday has done an excellent job of adding customers, with… Read More

[from the 05/16/2016 edition of Breakthrough Tech Weekly]When you start a new company, you need a severe case of optimism. Building a business from the ground up is grueling work, especially when there are already major competitors in your market. While Workday has done an excellent job of adding customers, with… Read More

[from the 5/9/2016 issue of Breakthrough Tech Weekly] Varonis Systems (VRNS) provides products that allow users to manage and secure unstructured data, analyzing everything from spreadsheets, text documents, videos and emails that are created by using and extracting the relevant data. That process creates searchable data, which allows managers to… Read More

[from the 5/9/2016 issue of Breakthrough Tech Weekly] Varonis Systems (VRNS) provides products that allow users to manage and secure unstructured data, analyzing everything from spreadsheets, text documents, videos and emails that are created by using and extracting the relevant data. That process creates searchable data, which allows managers to… Read More

This isn’t going to be a lazy summer for the stock market.The summer season is always fairly volatile mostly thanks to traders taking their vacations, hence the old adage, “Sell in May and go away.” Personally, I’ve never bought into that, but then I like to buy on dips. I… Read More