History of the Weiss Companies

1971 Dr. Martin D. Weiss establishes Martin D. Weiss Research, Inc., the predecessor of Weiss Research, Inc., to serve investors and evaluate the safety of financial institutions.
1972 The company is registered as an investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
1975 The company publishes its first book. Martin Weiss establishes a fact-checking function to assure the accuracy of all advertising and publications.
1976 First issue of the Martin Weiss’ monthly newsletter, later named the Safe Money Report, is published.
  Martin Weiss establishes rules restricting trading by principals or employees in any securities cited in its publications.
1985 Following U.S. Supreme Court decision clarifying exemption of investment newsletters from registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission, most investment newsletter publishers, including Weiss Research, allow their registrations with the SEC to lapse.
1987 Weiss publishes its first guide rating all banks and thrifts.
1989 Weiss publishes the nation’s first independent ratings of insurance companies.
1990 Weiss Ratings, Inc. is incorporated as a separate entity dedicated to providing independent financial ratings on banks, insurance companies and other corporations.
1992 Weiss Research publishes its first Premium Service designed to provide trading recommendations to a small group of sophisticated investors.
1995 Weiss Group, LLC. is founded as a holding company of four Weiss subsidiaries — Weiss Research, Weiss Ratings and Weiss Capital Management and the Weiss School.
1995 Weiss Group formalizes written guidelines for personal security transactions.
2002 Weiss Research establishes an internal Compliance Department to monitor the fairness of all advertising and the performance of published recommendations.
2005 Weiss Research launches its first daily e-letter, Money and Markets.

2006

Weiss Group sells the assets of Weiss Ratings to TheStreet.com with the goal of making its reasearch and analysis available to a broader audience of investors.