Eric Kobren, Executive Editor of Fidelity Insight has more than 30 years experience in the investment field. He graduated cum laude from Bernard Baruch College (CUNY) in 1974. After receiving his MBA from Columbia University in January, 1976, he worked in professional staff positions with Merrill Lynch and E.F. Hutton in New York. In 1982, Eric joined Delphi Management, a highly regarded institutional money management firm in Boston, as Vice President, Research and Trading. In 1983, he was named Group Marketing Director at Fidelity Investments.

In September of 1985, Eric founded the Mutual Fund Investors Association, Inc. (MFIA) and began publishing Fidelity Insight, a monthly investment report covering the Fidelity Investments family of mutual funds, three months later.

In 1987 he established a private money management service, Kobren Insight Management (KIM), and in 1996 he launched the Kobren Growth fund. He subsequently sold both of those companies to E*TRADE Financial.

In 2001, Eric launched Alumni Partners, a hedge fund of hedge funds that focuses exclusively on hedge funds run by former analysts or fund managers from Fidelity Investments.

Eric has been widely quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and USA Today. In addition, he has been a frequent participant in Barron’s annual Mutual Fund Roundtable and has appeared on a variety of nationally televised programs.