NEW YORK, May 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MarketWatch.com continues to expand its premium offerings with the launch of "Hulbert on Markets: What's Working Now," a weekly newsletter targeting active investors written by Mark Hulbert, a senior columnist for MarketWatch. Hulbert on Markets focuses on stocks, mutual funds, and market timing recommendations that are most popular among top performing advisers. Mr. Hulbert highlights consensus recommendations from top performing advisers in each issue and provides his insightful commentary.
MarketWatch currently offers nine additional premium services, three of which are based on Mr. Hulbert's unique database that he created from 30 years of monitoring the performance of investment advisors. These offerings include the Hulbert Financial Digest (HFD), a monthly newsletter that reports on the performance of newsletters, and Hulbert Interactive, the premium section of MarketWatch.com that allows users to interact with the database.
Most recently, MarketWatch launched Revolution Investing by Cody Willard, financial columnist and co-host of Happy Hour for the Fox Business Network. Revolution Investing provides stock picks and insightful commentary to help investors understand how the changing political and financial landscape in Washington DC impacts investments.
"We have bolstered MarketWatch's lineup of premium product offerings and continue to add new content and features that attract and engage our audience of active investors," said David Callaway, editor-in-chief of MarketWatch.com. "Investors need to stay on top of what's happening and what it means for them, and we believe these recent additions will serve them well."
MarketWatch has also recently launched several new columns and features, including Speculations from contributor and award-winning financial journalist Jon Markman, focusing on stocks and stock market analysis; and Media Matters, a Web video show hosted by Jon Friedman, the site's Media Web columnist. Media Matters features interviews with leading media industry newsmakers and is available online on the first and third Monday of each month.
Hulbert on Markets is priced annually at $149, but is being offered at an introductory price of $99 with 30-day free trial. To learn more about MarketWatch premium products, please go to http://store.marketwatch.com/">http://store.marketwatch.com.
About Mr. Hulbert
Mr. Hulbert is a senior columnist for MarketWatch and the editor of the Hulbert Financial Digest (HFD), which since 1980 has been tracking the performance of investment advisory newsletters. The HFD became a service of MarketWatch in April 2002. Mr. Hulbert also writes a regular investment column, On the Markets, three times a week for MarketWatch.
From 1998 through early 2010, Mr. Hulbert wrote a column on investment strategies for the Sunday New York Times. For the 11 years before that, he was a columnist on the same subject for Forbes magazine.
Since 1983, Mr. Hulbert has been a contributing editor to the Journal of the American Association of Individual Investors.
Mr. Hulbert has also co-authored two books: The Hulbert Guide to Financial Newsletters (Dearborn, 1993); and Interlock: The Untold Story of American Banks, Oil Interests, the Shah's Money, Debts and the Astounding Connections Between Them (Richardson & Snyder, 1982).
About MarketWatch
MarketWatch.com, published by Dow Jones & Company, tracks the pulse of markets for engaged investors with an average of 12 million visitors per month. The site is a leading innovator in business and investment news, real-time commentary and financial tools and data, with dedicated journalists generating more than 500 headlines, stories and market briefs a day from 11 bureaus around the world. In addition, MarketWatch offers subscription products for individual investors, including the Hulbert Financial Digest suite of products, Retirement Weekly and ETF Trader. The MarketWatch Radio Network also provides radio updates every 30 minutes. MarketWatch.com is a member of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, which includes WSJ.com, Barrons.com, AllThingsD.com, BigCharts.com and VirtualStockExchange.com.
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