Jessica Rabe

Jessica started her career on Wall Street working as a research associate for a NYC brokerage firm when she was 19. She was Vice President of Market Strategy at Convergex Group prior to co-founding DataTrek Research. Jessica wrote economic and market commentary for the Morning Markets Briefing, a daily financial report widely followed by the investment community and media.

She conducts research and economic analysis on a wide array of topics, including the domestic legal marijuana industry, millennials and fintech, behavioral finance, US equity market volatility, labor markets and monetary policy. Jessica has been quoted in several publications, such as the WSJ, CNBC, Barron’s, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Business Insider, and Zero Hedge, among others. She has also been interviewed live on CNBC about millennial finance, and on BNN (Canadian business television) regarding the US legal marijuana industry.

Jessica is the co-author of “Alts Democratized: A Practical Guide to Alternative Mutual Funds and ETFs for Financial Advisors”, published in 2014 by Wiley Finance. She started her career working at a Registered Investment Advisor in New Jersey, where she assisted the portfolio manager in portfolio analytics and construction and helped complete consulting studies for the mutual fund industry. Jessica graduated summa cum laude with a BA in economics from Gordon College.