Alan Brochstein

Founder
420 Investors

Alan Brochstein, CFA, is a leading authority on cannabis-related investments as the founder of internet-based 420 Investor and 420 Funders. He is a member of the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) in an ongoing effort to promote the industry.‏

After beginning his financial career working in the New York City bond business, with Kidder, Peabody and then First Boston’s investment management subsidiary, Alan joined Criterion Investment Management as a portfolio manager in a $10 billion fixed-income advisory business. Later, Alan was a principal and analyst/portfolio manager at Piedra Capital, where he focused on Mid-Cap Growth stocks for institutional and individual clients of the firm. In 2006 Alan began his own business, AB Analytical Services. Until March, he was a consultant to several investment advisors and an independent research firm and provided a model portfolio service and a trade-alert service to individual investors Alan, who resides in Houston, is a widely-read blogger at Seeking Alpha and graduated from Northwestern University in 1986 with a BA in Economics and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences