Welling@Weeden

Kathryn Welling, Editor & Publisher
(973) 763-6320 / welling@weedenco.com

Kate Welling, for many years Barron’s writer and editor, created Welling@Weeden to provide Weeden clients with focused, independent and ahead-of-the pack research, opinion and analysis. Welling@Weeden clients come away from its interviews not with mere lists of buy and sell ideas, but with real — and actionably early — insights into the investment decision-making processes of today’s best investors, the issues that challenge them and the devilish details that affect values in portfolios worldwide.

Over the years, she has penned features on investment topics as disparate as cardiac pacemakers and purported “down-hole steam generators“ for enhanced oil recovery. She covered technology from mainframes through minicomputers to PCs and the Net. She has dissected unaccountable accounting in everything from Disney to derivatives. And she has chronicled market mishaps from Penn Square Bank and Drysdale Government Securities to the Crash of 1987, Drexel Burnham Lambert and Long-Term Capital Management. She wrote the first expose of penny stock promoter Robert Brennan and his First Jersey Securities, and bubble pricking pieces on, among numerous others, Presstek’s purportedly revolutionary printing technology and Solv-Ex’s oil-sands-to-riches scheme, as well as one that outed a company called ZZZZ Best... which wasn’t.

Kate’s expert handling of the interview as a tool for mining investment insight goes back to the late 1970s when she assumed responsibility for Barron’s famed annual Roundtable and soon also began churning out weekly Q&A style interviews for the magazine with legendary investors the likes of George Soros, Bill Gross, Mario Gabelli, Paul Tudor Jones, Lee Cooperman, Julian Robertson, Peter Lynch and Jim Rogers.