Benjamin Gallander, Toronto

2001

Benjamin Gallander received his M.B.A. degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is a sought-after speaker on the seminar circuit and writes for various financial publications throughout North America. He is co-editor and publisher of the stock market newsletter Contra The Heard and author of The Canadian Small Business Survival Guide.

Gallander's financial results speak for themselves, with five and ten year annualised returns clicking in at 33.9% and 27% respectively. Recommending only companies in which he invests, his Contra The Heard is considered to be one of the most influential investment letters on the street. Strictly limited to 1,000 clients, about 15% of Contra's clientele are stockbrokers and investment professionals. He is followed quarterly in The Globe & Mail, and was called in the day after the stock market crash to explain it by Canada's number one radio show, CBC's "This Morning".

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The Uncommon Investor, Toronto: Insomniac Press, 1998

Five produced plays in 1991-1995

The M.B.A. -Hobo Poems., Toronto: Ralph Gonads Publications, 1991

The Canadian Small Business Survival Guide, Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1988.

A third book in this sequence is complete and was waiting to close the contract after Benj's return from his stay at the Berton House.

Currently his most public forum is a biweekly column in the Globe and Mail called "The Contra Guys", which he writes with his business partner Ben Stadelmann. This column a spin off from an investment newsletter they produce at Contra the Herd.com.