Steve Cortes will be the YBL Spring Banquet speaker. Mr. Cortes appears daily on CNBC’s Fast Money “Halftime Report”, as well as ABC and Yahoo! Finance. He is the founder of Veracruz, TJM, a trading and consulting firm providing real-time market research to institutions and produces the “ETF Ladder” sector ranking for individual investors. His research covers global markets: from equities to currencies and fixed income.

Mr. Cortes is a frequent speaker on investment strategy, global financial trends and market performance.

He authored Against the Herd: 6 Contrarian Investment Strategies You Should Follow. Mr. Cortes graduated from Georgetown University in 1994, where he was nominated by the University for the Rhodes Scholarship, played varsity football and was named a George F. Baker Scholar. Mr. Cortes lives in Chicago with his wife and four children.

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