Joe Austin joined Chaikin Analytics in July 2024 as an editor and senior analyst. He began his Wall Street career as a research analyst for the technology sector in 1984. Along the way, he also served as a senior portfolio manager on a $10 billion-plus value-equity product and an $80 million long-short science and tech hedge fund. And he provided research coverage of the tech sector for a $5 billion hedge fund.
In the second half of his career, Joe moved into marketing and business development for alternative asset managers. In this role, his strategies included global long-short equity, distressed debt and activist equity, and a natural resource-focused private-equity fund.