DAVID R. FRIED is Portfolio Manager for Fried Asset Management, Inc. He
is also the Editor and Publisher of The Buyback Letter, the only
investment newsletter devoted to finding opportunities among companies
that repurchase their own stock. His asset management firm makes
available separate investor advisory and money management services,
which utilize the ‘Buyback Strategy’ principles, through his company.
The Buyback Letter’s ‘Indexed Portfolios’ have beaten the S&P 500 index
since their introduction in March 1997 by a three-to-one margin through
the end of 2001, and was ranked number one for risk-adjusted returns
among stock-picking newsletters by The Hulbert Financial Digest for the
first five years that the digest tracked the newsletter’s results
(ranked second for risk adjusted returns for all categories). Fried
Asset Management, Inc.’s managed accounts have more than doubled the
performance of the S&P 500 since inception in 1998. Mr. Fried has been a
featured guest on Bloomberg Television, CNBC’s ‘Money Club’ and Squawk
Box ‘Market Wrap’ with Bill Bresnan in New York City. He has also been
profiled in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Barron’s,
Bottom Line Personnel, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Forbes,
BusinessWeek and numerous other publications. Mr. Fried is also an
approved guest speaker for the American Association of Individual
Investors. A Cornell graduate, Mr. Fried is one the few money managers
to have also founded a company listed in Inc. magazine’s annual ‘Inc.
500’ list of the 500 fastest growing private companies (1989).
