Doug has dealt with finance for much of his career, beginning as a stockbroker with Dean Witter Reynolds back in the pre-history of today's financial markets.  Along the way, he also worked at L. F. Rothschild and spent eight years at Morgan Stanley in their high net worth/mini-institutional group before it merged with Dean Witter.    During his time at Morgan Stanley, he managed portfolios utilizing the convertible arbitrage strategy, and this led to the inception of a convertible arbitrage hedge fund which he ran for a number of years.

During this time, he also wrote an occasional commentary for Hedge Fund Review, an early hedge fund industry publication.  His work led to an invitation to write similar material for www.allaboutalpha.com, which covers the private investment industry, and he has taken up computer keyboard to make occasional contributions there.