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Michael Pento

Michael Pento

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Michael Pento is the Founder and President of Pento Portfolio Strategies, an investment advisory that provides money management services and research for individual and institutional clients. Michael is a well-established specialist in markets and economics with over 30 years of professional investment experience. Prior to starting PPS, he served as a senior economist and vice president of the managed products division of Euro Pacific Capital. He has also worked at the investment advisory firm where he helped create ETFs and UITs that were sold throughout Wall Street. Michael is also the author of The Coming Bond Market Collapse.

Professional Experience


Academic History

EARLY CAREER

  • At Euro Pacific Capital, he led an external sales division that marketed their managed products to outside broker-dealers and registered investment advisors.

  • He was also the portfolio creator and consultant to Delta/Claymore’s commodity portfolios, which were distributed through Claymore/Guggenheim’s sales network.

  • Earlier in his career, he spent two years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

  • He created the Inflation/Deflation and Economic Cycle Portfolio that is focused on determining the location of the market across the five sectors between inflation/deflation and growth/recession.


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