Tom Lydon is editor and publisher of ETF Trends, a website with daily news and commentary about the fast-changing trends in the exchange traded fund (ETF) industry.

Mr. Lydon is also CEO of Global Trends Investments, an investment advisory firm specializing in the creation of customized portfolios for high-net worth individuals. He has been involved in money management for more than 25 years.

Mr. Lydon serves on the Board of Directors for U.S. Global Investors, Inc. and Guggenheim Investments.

In early 2010, Mr. Lydon helped create the CNBC Model ETF Portfolios. 

Mr. Lydon is the author of The ETF Trend Following Playbook, as well as iMoney: Profitable Exchange-Traded Fund Strategies for Every Investor. He is Co-Founder of Virtual Summits, educational virtual events for financial advisors.

Robert Powell is president of Unison, LLC, a Salem, Mass.-based communications and consulting firm. He is also the Executive Producer of PBS' More Than Money, a new personal finance television series.

Mr. Powell has more than 20 years of financial services industry and media experience in Internet, broadcast, print and radio. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, MarketWatch, and MoneyLife. He has also served as host or co-host of several television, radio and Internet chat programs.

Robert was formerly managing director of Acadient, Inc. of Boston, where he managed programs for personal finance educational institutions, and also served as managing director and editor-in-chief of Boston-based DALBAR, Inc., where he headed the firm's multi-million dollar publishing company. He has been The Boston Herald's personal finance and mutual funds columnist as well as a business reporter for the Berkshire Eagle and Boston Business Journal. He has a bachelor's degree from Marquette University and a master's degree in journalism from Boston University College of Communication. Robert lives in Swampscott, Mass. with his wife and four children; triplet boys and a daughter.

Charles Rotblut is a vice president with the American Association of Individual Investors. He is the editor of the AAII Journal, co-created AAII Dividend Investing, helps to manage the Stock Superstars portfolio and authors the weekly AAII Investor Update newsletter. Charles' book, Better Good than Lucky: How Savvy Investors Create Fortune with the Risk-Reward Ratio, was published in November 2010.

A Chartered Financial Analyst, Rotblut has analyzed both publicly-traded and privately-held companies. His experience includes working for Zacks Investment Research, an investment research firm; INVESTools, an investment education company; Curian Capital, a money management firm; and McClure, Schumacher & Associates, a business valuation firm.

Greg McBride, CFA, is Vice President, Senior Financial Analyst, for Bankrate.com, providing analysis and advice on personal finance. With 16 years of experience in personal finance, he has the unique ability to provide both in-depth commentary and practical advice to consumers. Through Bankrate.com's Money Makeover series, he has helped consumers plan for retirement, manage debt and develop appropriate investment allocations.

McBride has appeared on hundreds of national cable and network broadcasts including CBS' "Early Show," NBC's "Nightly News," CBS' "Evening News" and ABC's "World News Tonight." He is a frequent guest on CNBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.

McBride is routinely quoted by major print outlets such as The Associated Press, Wall Street Journal and USA Today, and is a regular radio guest on financial talk shows throughout the United States. He is also an accomplished public speaker, having appeared before audiences at the Federal Reserve Board, Mortgage Bankers Association, Federal Trade Commission, and at the China Times Golden Cicada Awards in Beijing.

McBride is on the Board of Directors of CredAbility, an Atlanta-based nonprofit credit counseling agency accredited by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. Additionally, he serves on CredAbility's Marketing Committee and is Chairman of the Advisory Board for the regional office, CredAbility of Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast.

David Trainer is a Wall Street veteran and corporate finance expert. He specializes in reversing accounting distortions on the underlying economics of business performance and stock valuation. He is author of Modern Tools for Valuation (Wiley Finance 2010).

As CEO of New Constructs, LLC, Mr. Trainer combines his expertise with proprietary technology to analyze over 3000 stocks, 400 ETFs and 7000 mutual funds. New Constructs sources all financial data directly from the SEC, most notably the Notes to the Financial Statements, for all U.S. companies.

New Constructs footnote analysis of 3000 stocks drives unrivalled quality-of-earnings and valuation research. See how insights from the footnotes drove many of the top picks from 2011.

The firm's stock rating and ETF & mutual fund rating methodologies are 100% transparent.
All ratings and all ETF and mutual fund reports are freely available on our stock screener, ETF screener and mutual fund screener.

Mr. Trainer has made frequent appearances in TV and print to share his insights on the Most Attractive and Most Dangerous Stocks in the market as well as cutting–edge research on ETFs and mutual funds. You can find his most recent recommendations here.

His stock-picking success has been well-documented since 2005, including features on CNBC, in Institutional Investor Magazine and in Barron's.

Mr. Trainer is also Managing Partner of Novo Capital Management, LLC, an adviser to a hedge fund that licenses New Constructs' uniquely granular data to implement proprietary trading strategies.