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Mandeep Rai

| Senior Analyst

Ratings Specialist Mandeep Rai received his economics degree from the University of Albany and master’s degree at the University of Florida’s Warrington/Hough School of Business.

He spent six years on the NYSE trading floor, and worked in private equity valuations for General Electric’s Energy Financial Services and as a lead analyst for a $2 billion early stage venture capital seed fund. He holds his Chartered Financial Analyst certification.

Today, Mandeep mines the vast Weiss database of financial data and ratings to formulate investment and trading strategies for stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies and fixed-income investments.

Mandeep contributes to several Weiss publications, including Weekend Windfalls, Heat Maps and the All-Weather Portfolio.

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