Gail Liberman

Gail Liberman and Alan Lavine are husband-and-wife columnists and best-selling authors based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Their columns run on Dow Jones MarketWatch and in the Boston Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, several Scripps Howard newspapers, MyFinancialAdvisor.com, Fundsinteractive.com, Allaboutfunds.com, and Quicken.com.

 

Liberman and Lavine’s book Rags to Riches: Motivating Stories of How Ordinary People Achieved Extraordinary Wealth! (Dearborn, 2000) was featured on Oprah and hit two best-seller lists.

 

You might have seen or heard the couple on television and radio. They have been guests on CBS’s The Early Show, CNN, CNBC, The 700 Club, NBC, Fox, and PBS. They also have been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, USA Today, the New York Times, Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, The Washington Post, Redbook, First, Town and Country, Bride’s, and Elle.

 

Their other books are The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds (Alpha Books, 2000), Rags to Retirement (Alpha Books, 2003), More Rags to Riches (Dearborn, 2002), Love, Marriage and Money (Dearborn, 1998), Improving Your Credit and Reducing Your Debt (Wiley, 1994), Short and Simple Guide to Life Insurance (Authors Choice, 2000), and Short and Simple Guide to Smart Investing (Authors Choice, 2003).

 

The two have contributed to Consumers Digest, Your Money, and Worth magazines, as well as the Journal of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, Financial Advisor, and Financial Planning magazine.

 

Liberman’s own column,“Managing Your Fortune,” runs in the Palm Beach Daily News. She helped launch Bank Rate Monitor (now Bankrate.com) in North Palm Beach and was editor of the publication for 15 years. An award-winning journalist, she began her career with the Associated Press, United Press International, and United Features Syndicate. She also was a reporter for the Courier-Post, a Gannett newspaper in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Liberman obtained her Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She holds a Florida real estate license and a Florida mortgage broker license.

 

Alan Lavine, author of the nation’s longest-running mutual fund column, was on the ground floor of the mutual fund industry as the former director of research for IBC/Donoghue, now iMoneyNet.com, of Westborough,Massachusetts. His columns have been running in the Boston Herald for more than 24 years. A former Registered Investment Advisor, he also pens a regular column for the Journal of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Individual Investor, American Banker, Trusts and Estates, American Lawyer, and Financial World. During the 1980s, his family finances research was cited by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. A guest lecturer at Cornell University, Lavine has spoken before such groups as the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Massachusetts Psychological Association, and Morningstar, Inc.’s Mutual Fund Conference.

 

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