Mark Hulbert is the Founder and CEO of Hulbert Ratings, a financial publisher geared towards sophisticated traders and institutional investors. Hulbert is a seasoned financial expert with more than four decades of experience analyzing investments and market trends. He is the former Editor of The Hulbert Financial Digest, a consumers' report on the real-world performance of investment advisors. HFD began tracking advisers' model portfolios in 1980 and has more than three decades of research into the performance of investment advisors. Since 2002, he has been a Senior Columnist for MarketWatch. He has also had a regular column for the Money & Investing Section of the Wall Street Journal and a monthly investing column for Barron’s. An expert in converting complex investment concepts into easy-to-understand pieces, Hulbert is a favorite guest on radio and television, and a leader of investment seminars and workshops.
Under his leadership, Hulbert Ratings publishes extremely sensitive barometers of investor sentiment in four different markets.
Hulbert Ratings utilizes The Hulbert Financial Digest's pre-closing calculations as the base, and calculates all followed newsletter performance on its own since its closing in 2016.
HFD is an independent, objective and accurate rating service that examines the available financial, stock, and mutual fund newsletters and reports on them.
EARLY CAREER
Hulbert is a financial journalist and author with a focus on expectations of stock market investment newsletters, contrarian investing, and quantitative or technical analysis.
He was an Investment Columnist for USA Today, where he focused on the lessons that can be drawn from successful and unsuccessful investment strategies.
He was a "Strategies" Columnist for The New York Times where he wrote a bi-weekly column focused on academic research in finance.
He was a "Wall Street Irregular" Columnist for Forbes.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Hulbert has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, The New York Times, and MoneyShow.
He is a frequent guest on TV, including CNBC and Fox Business.
He is a regular columnist of several Dow Jones publications and writes columns for MarketWatch.