Jim Pearce

Jim Pearce is the Chief Investment Strategist of Personal Finance, our flagship publication, and manages two trading services, PF Pro and Mayhem Trader. He began his career as a stockbroker in 1983 and over the years has managed client investment portfolios for major banks, brokerage firms, and investment advisors. Jim earned a BA from The College of William & Mary and the CFP designation from the College of Financial Planning.

Analyst Articles

We just scored a big gain in recently recommended Western Digital, and think we found another beaten up tech stock about to do the same thing. Read More

This morning’s quarterly earnings report from Silicon Motion Technology Corp. (SIMO) has pushed its share price up a bit, but it remains below our stop price of $29 so we are selling it out of the STI Next Wave portfolio. We still like the company from a long term perspective,… Read More

This morning’s quarterly earnings report from Silicon Motion Technology Corp. (SIMO) has pushed its share price up a bit, but it remains below our stop price of $29 so we are selling it out of the STI Next Wave portfolio. We still like the company from a long term perspective,… Read More

Unlike most summers when just about every investment banker on Wall Street goes on vacation for the month of July, it appears this year most of them stayed home as the Greek debt crisis slowly unfolded. Combined with China’s collapsing stock market (down 30% in less than a month!), the… Read More