John Del Vecchio is an editor at Dent Research and the author of Rule of 72: How to Compound Your Money and Uncover Hidden Stock Profits and What’s Behind The Numbers: A Guide To Exposing Financial Chicanery And Avoiding Huge Losses In Your Portfolio, John is a forensic accountant at ... more
John Del Vecchio is an editor at Dent Research and the author of Rule of 72: How to Compound Your Money and Uncover Hidden Stock Profits and What’s Behind The Numbers: A Guide To Exposing Financial Chicanery And Avoiding Huge Losses In Your Portfolio, John is a forensic accountant at heart.
Standing on the shoulders of the great David Tice, James O’Shaughnessy and Dr. Howard Schilit, he built a framework of algorithms and a multi-factor grading system that has made him one of the more successful short-sellers around. John graduated summa cum laude from Bryant College with a B.S. in Finance and was awarded Beta Gamma Sigma honors. He earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in September 2001.
John is also the editor for Dent Research's trading service, Forensic Accountant.
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Dent Research | |
January 2015 - Present (7 years 6 months) | |
Editor of the Forensic Investor newsletter. |
Co-Author | |
What's Behind the Numbers? | |
October 2012 - Present (9 years 9 months) | |
(McGraw-Hill, 2012). Stock Trader Almanac book of the year 2013. |
President | |
Parabolix Research, Inc. | |
April 2010 - Present (12 years 4 months) | |
Develop tools to assess quality of earnings in public companies. Creator of the Price / Earnings Quality ratio. Previously risk management and consultant to institutional investors. |
Portfolio Manager | |
Ranger Alternative Management, LP | |
August 2007 - Present (15 years) |
Co-Manager | |
Ranger Alternative Management, LP (Ranger Equity Bear ETF NYSE: HDGE) | |
August 2007 - Present (15 years) | |
Co-Manager of the AdvisorShares Ranger Equity Bear ETF (NYSE: HDGE). Previously, a short only hedge fund managed at Ranger Capital Group in Dallas, TX. Short only exchange traded fund using forensic accounting to analyze earnings quality. Tactical management used by co-manager in sizing positions / timing. |
Analyst | |
David W. Tice & Associates | |
December 2002 - July 2007 (4 years 8 months) | |
Analyst for David W. Tice & Associates focusing on short positions in technology and consumer sectors. |
Bryant College | |
BS | |
1994 / 1997 | |
Finance. Summa Cum Laude |
What's Behind the Numbers?: A Guide to Exposing Financial Chicanery and Avoiding Huge Losses in Your Portfolio | |
John Del Vecchio | |
McGraw-Hill Education | |
10/12/2012 | |
Companies are under more pressure than ever to “beat by a penny,” but you don’t need to be a forensic accountant to uncover where the spin ends and the truth begins. You too can avoid losing a chunk of your portfolio when the next overhyped growth stock fails. Investing experts mix a potent combination of earnings quality analysis, long-side investing, and short-side portfolio risk management to help you create a long-short portfolio with less volatility and greater returns, while avoiding landmine stocks that will blow a hole in your financial security. The authors explain the practical side of financial analysis. They demystify widely held assumptions about stock performance, expected returns, earnings quality, and short sellers. Then they comb the financial statements to find the places where companies hide poor earnings quality. Finally, they provide the value and special situations investing to pair with the short-side thinking. |
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