Gregory Spear
The Editor
Gregory Spear
Independent Investor, Inc. was founded in 1995 at a kitchen table in West Hartford, Connecticut by Gregory Spear. Mr. Spear had begun to test different investing systems and, in doing so, had invented a revolutionary, yet inherently simple process that worked amazingly well. This system, which he called "Consensus," uncovered stock picks agreed upon by the best performing independent (non-Wall Street) stock analysts and money managers. In addition, Spear designed his Performance-Weighted Rank to find out which stock-picking systems really perform and which ones don't, and then weigh their advice accordingly. With the Consensus System as its backbone, Gregory Spear launched his first financial newsletter, The Spear Report in 1995.
The Spear Report
With the Consensus System as its backbone, Independent Investor launched its first financial newsletter, "The Spear Report" on November 6, 1995 with an advertisement in Investor's Business Daily. The launch was a success and from then on, a combination of word-of-mouth, selected advertising, and outstanding portfolio performance did the rest. The Spear Report analyzes over 120 sources of stock recommendations every single day. That's over 2,000 stock picks a month. Their "obsession with performance" drives them to continually identify and analyze the best in the business.