About Kenneth G. Winans
Kenneth G. Winans is an award-winning author, renowned collector, and president and founder of the respected investment management and research firm Winans International.
For more than 26 years he has conducted ground breaking investment analyses and designed innovative financial strategies during some of the investment industry’s most volatile times. He is a regular guest on numerous TV and radio shows and has had much of his investment research published by leading websites, magazines, and newspapers. He is the senior market commentator on one of the most popular business news radio stations in Los Angles (CBS affiliate KNX 1070 AM).
His Winans International Preferred Stock Index (WIPSI)™ and the Winans International Real Estate Index (WIREI)™ are considered leading market benchmarks. They are used by major financial and academic institutions and have been featured in Investor’s Business Daily and U.S.A Today.
Ken wrote the first book on preferred stocks since the 1930s, Preferreds—Wall Street’s Best-Kept Income Secret which was an award winner in the 2007 National Best Book Awards.
He is a member of the Market Technicians Association and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute and has earned the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) accreditation. He also served as adjunct faculty member of the Graduate School of Business at St. Mary’s College of California from 1996 to 2001. In 2004, his alma mater, University of San Francisco named him one of its most celebrated graduates in its 152-year history.
He is very active with community endeavors. In 2002, he co-founded The W Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the public education of the history and future benefits of space exploration. He also serves on the board of the Chabot Space Science Center.
In his spare time, Ken ski races in the U.S. Ski Association’s Masters Program and is a renowned collector of artifacts from space exploration and antique financial documents. Many pieces from his collections are on display at leading museums coast to coast (such as a Gemini capsule on board the U.S.S Hornet Museum in California, and a large gold nugget from the California gold rush at the Museum of American Finance in New York City).
Ken and his wife, Debbie, are longtime residents of the Bay Area.
