David Dittman is co-editor of Australian Edge, along with his longtime mentor Roger Conrad. David's valuable contributions on economic, regulatory and legislative changes help subscribers make informed decisions about investing in high-dividend-paying Australian and Canadian companies.

David authors the companion to Canadian Edge, Canadian Edge Weekly, which provides regular commentary on and analysis of macroeconomics, geopolitics, global trade, central banking, domestic politics and other issues related to investing in the Great White North.

He has been associate editor of Canadian Edge as well as Utility Forecaster for seven years. He began his career at Investing Daily as deputy managing editor before serving as managing editor and then executive editor.

David is co-author, along with Elliott H. Gue and Yiannis G. Mostrous, of The Rise of the State: Profitable Investing and Geopolitics in the 21st Century, which was published in August 2010 by FT Press. He also edited Mr. Gue and Mr. Mostrous’ previous book, The Silk Road to Riches: How You Can Profit by Investing in Asia’s Newfound Prosperity, which was published in 2006 by FT Press.

David is a reformed lawyer with a juris doctor from Villanova University School of Law. He’s also a former stockbroker who worked the fixed-income desk for a two-man team managing more than $100 million in assets.

He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, where his interest in the changing nature of the global economy was shaped during courses with the esteemed Asia scholar Chalmers Johnson, and on periodic visits across the border to Tijuana.

In addition to meeting Roger Conrad, the most important event in David’s investing career was reading Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor. He uses Graham and Dodd’s Security Analysis mainly for reference purposes now but used to try to read it straight through.