Gallander is the co-editor of the Contra the Heard Investment Letter, which has amongst the highest returns in the world at 18.1 percent annualized over the past 20 years. He is the author of three best-selling books, two in the stock market sector and The Canadian Small Business Survival Guide, which was first published in 1988 and is still in the stores today. There are also American, Chinese and Czech editions of this work.
He was a regular on BNN – Bloomberg’s number one show for almost 20 years. In addition, he appeared every couple of weeks on CBC’s On the Money with Peter Armstrong, talking about topics as diverse as marijuana, crypto currencies, AI and many others until, ironically, the show ran out of money. Benj is also on the Boards of Datametrex AI (DM.V) and Char Technologies (YES,V).
Six of his plays have seen the stage across Canada. He is a co-founder of one of Canada’s largest performance festivals, SummerWorks, which celebrated its 30th anniversary.
Gallander has traveled to over 35 countries, working in many of them. This included a stint with the Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI) doing anti-poverty work in Nepal; teaching in Czechoslovakia soon after the Velvet Revolution and working in the Middle East and France.
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