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. Today, MFIA provides independent information, analysis and advice to mutual fund investors through both Fidelity Insight and FundsNet Insight, an additional monthly report covering the funds available through the fund networks of Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity and TD Waterhouse, that Eric began in 1994.

In 1987 he established a private money management service, Kobren Insight Management (KIM), where he serves as President and Chief Investment Officer. KIM also serves as the investment advisor to the Kobren Insight Mutual Funds that Eric launched in December of 1996. 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.