Louis Navellier
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Louis G. Navellier is Chairman and Founder of Navellier & Associates in Reno, Nevada. Navellier writes four investment newsletters focused on growth investing: Emerging Growth, Blue Chip Growth, Quantum Growth and Global Growth, published by InvestorPlace Media, LLC. He recently authored The Little Book That Makes You Rich, the fourth installment in the “Little Book, Big Profits” book series by John Wiley & Sons, released in October 2007. Today, Navellier travels the country hosting seminars for individual investors, and can frequently be seen giving his market outlook and analysis on Bloomberg, Fox News and CNBC.
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[edit] Personal Life
Louis Navellier was born in 1957, in Berkeley, California. Navellier was one of the first in his family to attend college. He attended the School of Business & Economics at Cal State Hayward (now Cal State East Bay).
Navellier and his wife and three children split their time between their residence in Florida and their residence in Nevada.
[edit] Investment Career
[edit] Education
From 1975-1979, Navellier attended the School of Business & Economics at Cal State Hayward (now Cal State East Bay). Navellier graduated from Cal State Hayward in 1978 at the young age of 20 with a B.S. in Finance, and then got his MBA in 1979. While at Cal State, Navellier took part in a research project in which the goal was to mimic the S&P 500’s performance. During this project Navellier discovered how to beat the market using quantitative and fundamental analysis.1
Navellier will begin serving as a trustee of the Cal State East Bay Education Foundation during its December 2007 meeting in a four-year term commitment with the possibility of an additional four-year term to follow. He has also pledged to give Cal State $500,000 which he will be paying in several installments over the next few years.
[edit] Private Account Management & Mutual Fund Company
Louis Navellier is Chairman and Founder of Navellier & Associates in Reno, Nevada. Navellier and his team of 49 professional analysts and staff manage over $5 billion in private accounts and mutual funds for individual investors and institutions. Thousands of investors have hired Navellier to manage their personal assets at brokerage firms, and many have simply purchased the Navellier no-load mutual funds. http://www.navellier.com
[edit] Publications for Individual Investors
[edit] Newsletters
In 1980, Louis Navellier began publishing MPT Review, a monthly newsletter for individual investors. In 1997 he partnered with publisher InvestorPlace Media, LLC (formerly Phillips Investment Resources, LLC) to launch The Blue Chip Growth Letter, which applied the investment strategy used in MPT Review to strictly blue chip stocks. In 2004, Navellier and InvestorPlace Media launched Quantum Growth, a weekly trading service for more aggressive investors. In January of 2005 they re-launched MPT Review renaming it Emerging Growth. And finally in August 2005, Global Growth was launched, a weekly trading service focused exclusively on international stocks traded on the U.S. exchanges.2
The Hulbert Financial Digest rated Emerging Growth #1 in the 20-year category from 1985-2005. From 1985 to mid-2007, Emerging Growth has gained 5,387.9% according to The Hulbert Financial Digest. During the same time period the S&P 500 made a 1456.9% return.
[edit] Books
Louis Navellier authored the fourth installment in John Wiley & Sons acclaimed “Little Book, Big Profits” series, The Little Book That Makes You Rich. Steve Forbes wrote the Foreword. The book was released in October 2007. Readers of the book receive free access to Navellier’s online stock-rating tool called PortfolioGrader Pro. PortfolioGrader Pro applies Navellier’s quantitative and fundamental analysis and simplifies it to a letter grade output that illustrates whether to buy, sell or hold a stock.3 Navellier is also quoted in Kenneth Sterns book, Secrets of the Investment All-Stars, in the interview "Louis Navellier, A Man Who Has Beat Them All."
[edit] Sources
1(Sterns, Kenneth. Secrets of the Investment All-Stars. New York, NY: American Management Association, 1999.)
