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Leonard Zacks has been Chairman and CEO of Zacks Investment Research since 1978. Prior to 1978, Leonard Zacks held several positions with A.G. Becker, a Chicago-based brokerage firm, including investment analyst, assistant to the president and product development manager. He was an associate at McKinsey & Co. in New York and an analyst at the Rand Corporation in California. Leonard Zacks holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Operations Research.

Benjamin Zacks was one of the founders of Zacks Investment Research, Inc. responsible for product development and marketing. Prior to 1978, Benjamin Zacks was with Merrill Lynch and was the manager of a printing business. Ben holds a B.A. in Economics from Boston University.

In 1978, Zacks began processing, organizing and evaluating research produced by US brokerage firms. Zacks' early contribution to investment analysis was the discovery that earnings per share estimate revisions are the most powerful force affecting stock prices, which gave birth to the Zacks Indicator. Zacks was also the first to calculate consensus EPS estimates of quarterly earnings (1981), and to create the concept of EPS surprises, as well as to analyze price response to EPS surprises.

Today, Zacks Investment Research receives daily electronic data feeds and printed research reports on over 10,000 companies from over 185 brokerage firms, produced by more than 3,200 analysts amounting to over 500,000 pages of brokerage research. In addition, Zacks Investment Research records 25,000 earnings estimate revisions and changes in broker recommendations weekly. This information is made available through institutional, and non-institutional product lines and web sites, as well as Zacks.com, and Zacksadvisor.com

The Zacks Advisor is the only in-house newsletter for individual investors published by Zacks Investment Research. The ZacksAdvisor.com site includes portfolios for stock recommendations, research reports, a screening tool, and personal portfolio updates. Zacks.com is a free resource center with limited research. Their main line of business is re-selling third party investment newsletters that are not directly affiliated with the firm.

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