With a background that blends engineering and finance, Lyn Alden Schwartzer provides research for a broad range of retail and professional investors at LynAlden.com. 

Lyn Alden Schwartzer uses a top-down and bottom-up approach to find good individual investments with a long-term focus, while taking into account a global macro overlay for overall asset allocation decisions. Her primary areas of emphasis include rate-of-change analysis of the short-term business cycle, historical context for the long-term debt cycle and periods of major economic shifts, and a variety of equity, bond, precious metal, and alternative assets that can benefit from these trends.