Since developing the digest-format for financial newsletters with my mentor, Dick Davis in 1983, I have spent my professional life immersed in the advisory newsletter field, as an editor, columnist, author, speaker and educator. In addition to this site, my coverage of the newsletter community appears in MSN Money and Marketwatch, Bull & Bear and daily on AOL Money & Finance.

This site is designed with the goal of educating investors about the value of the investment newsletter community, and helping them find the "best of the best" within the advisory world.

As Dick so adamantly taught me from the start of my career, my role as a financial editor was to "separate the wheat from the chaff" and help guide investors toward those advisors who represent the best of original, unbiased, thought-provoking, and quality investment research available.

Having read some 2,000 pages of financial newsletter research each and every week for 27 years, I can assure you that no advisor will always be right. But those included on this site have stood the test of time and proven their value.

Most of the advisors covered on this site I know personally. All, I respect tremendously. Each is worthy of your attention.

Finally, I ask all newsletter advisors, publishers, and marketers - as well as investors - to share their input and suggestions to improve this site. Established financial newsletter advisors who are not yet under my coverage but wish to be included on TheStockAdvisors are also encouraged to contact us. Thank you.