Spencer Jakab
Spencer Jakab is an award-winning financial journalist and the editor of the Wall Street Journal's "Heard on the Street", a financial and economic analysis column. He also wrote the "Ahead of the Tape" column at WSJ, which ran each weekday and previewed the day's most important economic or business event. Before joining WSJ, he wrote for the "Lex" and "On Wall Street" columns at the Financial Times. Prior to his journalism career, he was a former top-rated stock analyst at Credit Suisse, where he was most recently Director of Emerging Markets Equity Research. Spencer is the author of The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors (2022) and Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor (2016).
Spencer Jakab Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Editor, Heard on the Street column
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Columnist, Lex column
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Columnist, Taking the Stack column
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Head of EEMEA Research
Academic History
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M.A., International Affairs
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B.A., Political Science
JOURNALISM & EARLY CAREER
He has written for The Financial Times and Dow Jones Newswires.
He has also contributed several pieces to Barron's magazine.
At Credit Suisse, he led a team of analysts covering emerging markets ranging from Russia to South Africa.
He received extensive accounting training and participated in financial due diligence of companies.
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