Peter Frank, Contributing Author at MarketBeat

Experience

Peter Frank has been a contributing author for MarketBeat since 2026.

• Professional Background: Peter Frank is a financial journalist and editorial leader with more than 30 years of experience covering investing, markets, and business. Peter brings a unique blend of newsroom expertise and corporate communications strategy to his market commentary and investment analysis.
• Credentials: Peter studied business in college and has supplemented his formal education with decades of self-taught investment knowledge. Peter's career spans business reporting, financial editing, international corporate communications, and editorial leadership.
• Finance Experience: Peter began his career as a business reporter and financial editor, covering banking, insurance, equities, investments, and the economy. After more than a dozen years in international corporate communications and strategic marketing, Peter returned to journalism as executive editor of a financial news website and editorial director. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, Esquire, Elle, and various financial publications.
• Writing Focus: Peter specializes in dividends and income investing, ETFs and index funds, value investing, and economic trends. His writing is designed to inform and empower beginner and intermediate investors as well as general finance readers.
• Investment Approach: Peter takes a long-term, value-driven approach to investing with an eye toward growth. Peter integrates fundamental analysis, macroeconomic themes, and behavioral economics to identify strong businesses and overlooked opportunities.
• Inspiration: Influenced by investing greats like Benjamin Graham, Peter Lynch, and Charlie Munger, Peter sees the stock market as more than just numbers on a screen. "The stock market is the public scorecard for business, registering the impact of corporate strategies, global events, and investor sentiment. To understand the markets is to understand the totality of business in the world."
• Fun Fact: When he's not analyzing markets, Peter can be found logging miles as a dedicated runner—and applying his passion for behavioral economics to understand why investors (and people) do what they do.
• Areas of Expertise: Dividends and income investing, ETFs and index funds, value investing, economic trends

Education

Business Studies