Joseph Terranova
Chief Market Strategist
Virtus Investment Partners
Joe Terranova is chief market strategist at Virtus Investment Partners.
Mr. Terranova is best known for his risk management skills, honed while overseeing the trading operations, particularly of oil and natural gas, for MBF Clearing Corp. His leadership of MBF's trading operations coincided with some of the most calamitous times for the U.S. markets, including the first Gulf War, the 1998 Asian Crisis, 9/11, and the collapse of Amaranth Advisors.
He is a CNBC contributor and frequent panelist for the highly rated CNBC evening program Fast Money and has been a guest on Bloomberg TV and CNN, as well as being quoted in numerous financial media publications. He assisted MBF founder Mark B. Fisher in authoring the book, The Logical Trader, and wrote a daily energy market commentary for the energy industry and hedge fund community for more than 12 years.
Prior to joining Virtus Investment Partners in 2008, Mr. Terranova, spent 18 years at MBF Clearing Corp., rising to the position of director of trading for the company and all of its subsidiaries. In this capacity, he managed more than 300 traders and support staff for MBF, one of the New York Mercantile Exchange's largest firms. Before joining MBF, he held positions at both Swiss Banking Corp. and JP Morgan Securities.
Mr. Terranova earned a bachelor's degree in finance from the Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John's University in New York.