Gail Liberman -- Gail Liberman is a personal finance columnist and best-selling author based in North Palm Beach, Fla.. Liberman has been a guest on numerous television and radio shows. She has appeared on CBS' The Early Show, CNN, CNBC, and PBS. She also has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, USA Today, The New York Times, Business Week, Redbook, Bride's, Elle, Investors Business Daily and The Washington Post.
Liberman's column, "Managing Your Fortune," runs in the Palm Beach Daily News. She also is a columnist for Fasttrack, an affiliate of Boca Raton magazine. She helped found Bank Rate Monitor, North Palm Beach, now Bankrate.com, and had been editor of that publication for 15 years. An award-winning journalist, she launched her career with the Associated Press, United Press International, the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill, N.J. and United Feature Syndicate. She obtained her bachelor's degree in journalism from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
She holds both Florida mortgage broker and real estate licenses. Liberman also has written personal finance columns for CNBC.com. and writes additional columns jointly with her husband.They appear in the Boston Herald, on America Online, and numerous newspapers and websites.
Other books she has coauthored with her husband include Love, Marriage & Money (Dearborn), The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds (Alpha Books), Improving Your Credit and Reducing Your Debt (Wiley) and the Short & Simple Guide to Life Insurance (Authors Choice). She has contributed to Consumers Digest, Your Money and Worth magazines, as well as the Journal of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors and Financial Advisor and Financial Planning magazines. Alan Lavine -- Alan Lavine is a personal finance columnist and best-selling author based in North Palm Beach, Fla.. Lavine writes the nation's longest-running mutual fund column, which appears weekly in the Boston Herald. He got his start on the ground floor of the mutual fund industry as former director of research for IBC, Westborough, MA. Lavine has been a guest on CBS' The Early Show, CNN, CNBC, The 700 Club and PBS. He also has been quoted in USA Today, the New York Times, Redbook, First, Bride's, Woman's World, Investors Business Daily and The Washington Post.
He pens regular columns for Accounting Today and the Journal of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors. He has written for the New York Times, Individual Investor, FinancialWorld and CNBC.com. During the 1980s, his family finances research was cited by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. A frequent guest lecturer at Cornell University, Lavine has spoken before such groups as the American Psychology Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Morningstar Inc.'s mutual fund conferences. In addition to his own personal finance column, he also writes columns with his wife. Those columns run in the Boston Herald, America Online, and numerous newspapers and websites. He has contributed to Consumers Digest, Your Money and Worth magazines, as well as Financial Advisor and Financial Planning magazines. Lavine has authored Getting Started in Mutual Funds (Wiley); 50 Ways to Mutual Fund Profits (McGraw-Hill); Your Life Insurance Options (Wiley); Diversify Your Way to Wealth (McGraw-Hill), an alternate selection of the Fortune Book Club; and Diversify:Investors Guide to Asset-Allocation Strategies (Dearborn). His other books, coauthored with his wife, include Love, Marriage & Money (Dearborn), The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds (Alpha Books), Improving Your Credit and Reducing Your Debt (Wiley) and the Short & Simple Guide to Life Insurance (Authors Choice).
