Ann Davis Vaughan

Ann Davis Vaughan is a business journalist and investment strategist. She spent nearly fourteen years at the Wall Street Journal, where until 2010 she led coverage of the energy industry and commodity markets from Houston, the Wall Street beat from New York and investigative projects in white-collar crime and homeland security.

Her reporting earned a Gerald Loeb Award for Deadline Reporting in 2007 for coverage of energy markets and a Business Journalist of the Year Award from the World Leadership Forum in London in 2005. Since leaving the WSJ, she has provided investors proprietary research guiding billions of dollars in decisions, both at a private fund manager for a decade and an independent research firm she founded.