James Chen Joins JPMorgan as Wealth Content Studio Head

Well-known financial industry analyst, James Chen has left Investopedia after three years to take up his new role at JPMorgan as Vice President. He will be the Head of Content Studio for the Wall Street Giant’s US Wealth Management division.

Chen is based in New York and spent the last two decades in the financial industry, spending most of his time with forex brokerage firms. The psychology-graduate started his career in 2000 as a trader and market analyst.

An Industry Veteran

As Finance Magnates earlier reported, he held the position of 'Director, Trading & Investing' at Forbes-owned Investopedia, the Wikipedia-like website focused on finance and economy-related subjects.

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He spent a large part of his career educating people about the forex industry and authored two books, 'Essentials of Foreign Exchange Trading' and 'Essentials of Technical Analysis for Financial Markets', both published by John Wiley & Sons.

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