Stephen McBride is a professional fund manager, and Chief Analyst and Portfolio Manager of RiskHedge, a disruption research firm. He leads his team in hunting for under-the-radar "disruptive" companies that are changing the world, helping investors make sense of disruption so they can make the best investments. He also serves as a professional investor and manager of the RiskHedge Fund, which seeks to make outsized profits by investing early on in today's most disruptive trends including self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technologies. Stephen combines long-term prudent optimism, a deep research network, and proven risk-management strategies into a unique investing framework that has helped 40,000+ readers and counting profit from progress.
McBride runs RiskHedge's equity portfolio, a long-only portfolio focused on investing in the world's best disruptive companies.
He is the editor of Disruption Investor, a monthly trading newsletter which aims to help investors build lasting wealth by finding and profiting from disruptive companies in the marketplace today.
He also publishes the RiskHedge Report, a popular and rapidly growing advisory dedicated to helping investors understand and profit from disruption.
EARLY CAREER
McBride was a contributor at Forbes, where he shared his knowledge of microcaps and so-called “under-the-radar- disruptive companies”.
Prior to joining RiskHedge, he worked for a billion-dollar financial institution in New Zealand, where he developed financial models and projections to estimate future revenues, expenses, cash flows, profits, and returns on investments.
In 2018, he co-founded RiskHedge with Dan Steinhart from a coffee shop in Vermont.
He has lived on four continents and currently splits his time between the US and Ireland.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
He has appeared in various financial media outlets and publications, including Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, MarketWatch, Nasdaq, Newsmax, and more.