Mark Hulbert
Mark Hulbert is a veteran financial analyst, investment strategist, and the Founder and CEO of Hulbert Ratings, a respected financial research and publishing firm serving sophisticated investors, professional traders, and institutional audiences. With more than four decades of experience analyzing financial markets and investment performance, Hulbert is widely recognized for his data-driven approach to evaluating market trends and investment strategies. He is the former Editor of The Hulbert Financial Digest, a long-running consumer research publication that objectively tracked the real-world performance of investment newsletters and advisory services. Launched in 1980, the Digest compiled more than 30 years of historical performance data on advisors’ model portfolios, making it one of the most comprehensive long-term studies of investment advice effectiveness. Since 2002, Hulbert has served as a Senior Columnist for MarketWatch. He has also written a regular column for The Wall Street Journal’s Money & Investing section and contributed a monthly investing column to Barron’s. Known for translating complex financial concepts into clear, actionable insights, Hulbert is a frequent guest on television and radio and a sought-after speaker at investment seminars and professional workshops.
Mark Hulbert Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and CEO
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Senior Columnist
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"Strategies" Columnist
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"Wall Street Irregular" Columnist
Academic History
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M.A., Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
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B.A., Philosophy and Political Science
Under Mark Hulbert’s leadership, Hulbert Ratings has become a trusted source of independent, data-driven market intelligence, publishing highly sensitive barometers of investor sentiment across four major financial markets.
The firm is best known for its objective analysis of investment newsletter performance and sentiment indicators that are closely followed by professional investors and market participants.
Hulbert Ratings builds on the long-standing analytical framework of The Hulbert Financial Digest, using its pre-closing calculations as a foundation.
Since the Digest ceased publication in 2016, Hulbert Ratings has independently calculated and tracked the performance of all monitored newsletters, ensuring continuity, accuracy, and transparency.
The service remains widely respected for its unbiased evaluation of financial, stock, and mutual fund newsletters, offering a rare, evidence-based perspective on the real-world effectiveness of investment advice.
EARLY CAREER
Mark Hulbert began his career as a financial journalist and author with a strong focus on stock market expectations, contrarian investing, and quantitative and technical analysis.
He served as an Investment Columnist for USA Today, where he examined the lessons behind both successful and unsuccessful investment strategies.
He later wrote as a Strategies Columnist for The New York Times, contributing a bi-weekly column centered on academic research in finance, and also served as a Wall Street Irregular columnist for Forbes.
MEDIA PRESENCE & THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Hulbert is a widely recognized voice in financial media and investment commentary. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The New York Times, and at MoneyShow events.
A frequent television guest, he regularly appears on major financial networks including CNBC and Fox Business. In addition, he is a regular contributor to several Dow Jones publications and continues to write widely read investment columns for MarketWatch.