Richard Stavros

Richard Stavros is chief investment strategist for Global Income Edge, analyst for Utility Forecaster and a regular contributor to Personal Finance.

He is managing director of Thomas Dwight Capital (TDC), a strategic, financial and business development adviser to corporations, investment houses and governments. TDC identifies and develops for clients high growth and emerging markets opportunities in the energy, telecommunications, shipping and real estate sectors. In this capacity, Stavros has advised on several multi-million project finance valuations, business plan developments, and overall corporate strategies, as well as engaged in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and lead capital raising efforts for new business expansion plans.

With 17+ years of experience in the energy sector, Stavros has served in various leadership, strategy, finance and analytic roles at an energy utility, investment bank and various preeminent global media, economic and regulatory research houses.

He graduated from Georgetown University with a BA in Economics and English Literature. He holds an MBA from the University of Oxford with a concentration in Finance and Strategy.

Analyst Articles

Santa came early with a present for holders of Conservative Portfolio Holding Duke Energy International Geracao Paranapanema (OTC: DEIPY): the stock skyrocketed 54.5% on Dec. 11, closing at $33.17.This represents a gain of 20.62% on the holding since we put it in the portfolio in August, and it’s been a… Read More

Global Income Edge believes that given the pressure on oil and gas investments, it’s a prudent idea to take profits on Kinder Morgan Inc. While we believe KMI’s dividend yield of 4.43 percent was attractive, and the stock has appreciated almost 6% since we made it a holding, we simply… Read More

The ink was barely dry on our update on Seadrill in the previous issue of Personal Finance when the company dropped the bombshell that many had feared: It announced on November 26th that it is temporarily suspending its dividend until further notice, something it had also done in late 2008… Read More