About the Authors

Jessica Lynn Rabe is a research associate at ConvergEx Group, a global brokerage company based in New York. Rabe assists the firm's Chief Market Strategist in publishing the ConvergEx Morning Briefing, a daily commentary on financial markets that is distributed to 5,000 financial professionals and is frequently featured in news outlets, such as the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, and CNBC.

Rabe is a contributor for the American Enterprise Institute's Values and Capitalism blog, and has been published by other mediums, including the World Economic Forum's Global Information Technology Report, Asset International's Strategic Insight Alternatives Quarterly, Seeking Alpha, and the Center for Public Justice.

Previously, she was a research analyst specializing in liquid alternatives at her coauthor's firm, Right Blend Investing, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) in New Jersey. Her responsibilities included securities research and portfolio construction. She also helped research and write consulting reports for the asset management industry on the use of liquid and traditional alternatives by wirehouse firms, and on advisory services for the 401(k) market.

She has interned at the EMC Brazil Big Data Research and Development Center in Rio de Janeiro, and for the campaign of U.S. Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen in New Jersey.

Rabe graduated summa cum laude from Gordon College with a BA in economics, where she participated in the ...

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