Jim Pearce

Jim Pearce is the Chief Investment Strategist of Personal Finance, our flagship publication, and manages two trading services, PF Pro and Mayhem Trader. He began his career as a stockbroker in 1983 and over the years has managed client investment portfolios for major banks, brokerage firms, and investment advisors. Jim earned a BA from The College of William & Mary and the CFP designation from the College of Financial Planning.

Analyst Articles

  The solid rise in the S&P 500 over the first eight months of this year has given rise to the fallacy that the entire stock market is doing well in 2017. Um, not really. To be sure, on an equal-weight basis, the average stock in the index rose 8.6%… Read More

It was only six weeks ago that I reiterated my confidence that Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) would fully recover from an embarrassing scandal triggered by the admission a year ago that bank employees had opened approximately 2 million bogus deposit and credit card accounts over several years to achieve ambitious… Read More