Sam Subramanian, PhD, founder of AlphaProfit Investments, LLC, and editor in chief of the AlphaProfit Sector Investors’ Newsletter, Sugar Land, Texas. The newsletter’s ETF Focus model portfolio gained 40% in 2013, compared with 32.4% for the S&P 500, and it has beaten the S&P 500 by an average of three percentage points a year since its inception in 2003. AlphaProfit.com
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