Alan Brochstein first wrote on Seeking Alpha in early 2007, calling out bullishly a company that announced its acquisition just four months later. He later became one of the first investment professionals to focus exclusively on the cannabis industry after writing about it in early 2013. Alan got his start as a financial professional in the securities industry in 1986, working in fixed-income on Wall Street and then moving to the buy-side in 1992. He managed investments in institutional environments until he began in order to provide independent consulting to registered investment advisors in 2007. He was also the founder and managing partner of New Cannabis Ventures, a leading provider of relevant financial information in the cannabis industry for 11 years beginning in 2015. Most recently, Alan has focused on ETFs, sharing articles here at Seeking Alpha under the alias The Intelligent ETF Investor.Alan ran 420 Investor, the investing group for investors interested in the publicly-traded cannabis stocks that he moved to Seeking Alpha in 2023, from 2013 to May 2026. As the leader of the investing group, Alan closely covered many cannabis stocks and shared investment news as it came out, previews of their earnings reports and analysis of them afterwards. Other features of the group included: a model portfolio, 10 videos per week with chart analysis, 3 summary pieces weekly, a monthly newsletter, and chat for questions .
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