Scott Chan

Scott Chan moved from China to the U.S. with family at the age of ten. He passed the rigorous entrance exam and attended the merit-based Stuyvesant High School, widely held to be best public school in New York City. He earned undergraduate degrees from New York University followed by an MBA degree from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College.

Shortly thereafter Scott partnered with Dr. Stephen Leeb on numerous financial publications. Today, he serves as the lead analyst for Real World Investing and The Complete Investor.

Mr. Chan is an avid baseball fan and enjoys outdoor activities in his spare time. A multicultural person, he reads Chinese and speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese.

Analyst Articles

In our April issue of TCI, we discussed the importance of natural gas, and we added two oil and gas plays, Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS/B) to Growth Portfolio and Total (NYSE: TOT) to Income/Value Portfolio. This month we take a look at one of the other companies that we… Read More

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) (Income/Value Portfolio) has announced it will divest its Verizon Media division. The division includes former Yahoo and AOL assets. Verizon, which spent more than $8 billion to acquire these assets (Yahoo in 2017 and AOL in 2015), will sell them to private equity firm Apollo Global Management… Read More

Since peaking last August, gold has underperformed stocks. Nevertheless, for the full 2020, gold still returned approximately 25%, beating the S&P 500 despite the latter’s late-year surge. So far in 2021 gold has continued to trail stocks. We think this is but a temporary pause and expect gold’s long-term trajectory… Read More