Brian Kelly is Founder and CEO of Kanundrum Inc. a private investment company and research boutique focused on providing investment insight to instividual investors. He is the editor and publisher of The Surf Report, a daily investment newsletter where he uses his 15 years trading experience to identify the game changing events which set off the successive waves of investor enthusiasm and panic.
He is a frequent guest on CNBC’s Fast Money and Street Signs and was a co-founder of MKM Partners.
He received his BS in Finance from the University of Vermont, while also being able “squeeze-in” at least 3 days of skiing per week. After a year in the real world, making cold calls as a retail stockbroker, he decided to retreat to the safety of academia and received his MBA from Babson Graduate School of Business.
Then back to the real world again, where he spent the next 10 years trading equities for pension funds, mutual funds and hedge funds. He specialized in risk arbitrage, pairs trading and relative value strategies.
While in the real world he co-founded MKM Partners, a brokerage firm that caters to the institutional equity trading community.
He is the author of Blowing Bubbles: How to Identify and Profit from Market Bubbles and he publishes the blog “Perception is Reality”.
What the future holds is unknowable, but hopefully he will still be able to “squeeze-in” some time on the slopes.