Chuck Epstein (epstein.chuck@gmail.com) has held senior-level marketing communications positions at the New York Futures Exchange, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Russell Investments, Principal Financial, Zacks Investment Research, and Lind-Waldock.
He is the author of the memoir, You Don’t Think I’m Beautiful (2016); How 401(k) Fees Destroy Wealth and What Investors Can Do To Protect Themselves (2012); Managed Futures in the Institutional Portfolio (1992); and The Handbook of Corporate Earnings Analysis (1994). He also has written by-lined articles for over 50 financial publications.
In 2009, the year this blog (https://theprogressiveinvestor.org) was started, it won first place in the best small blog category from the Society of American Business Editors & Writers (SABEW). Recently, he had an op-ed published (his second) in Barron’s on the need for mutual fund companies to designate a shareholder advocate to ensure that shareholders’ interests are represented and protected. Almost all of the articles on this site were written by Epstein. (The original name of The
Progressive Investor was Mutual Fund Reform.com)
He also won writing awards from the Mutual Fund Education Alliance (MFEA) in 2006, 2007, and 2008 for writing the best broker-dealer and/or shareholder newsletters in the large mutual fund category class. He holds a MA in Communications and a BA in Journalism from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He can be reached at epstein.chuck@gmail.com
Chuck Epstein Editorial Experience
Books
You Don’t Think I’m Beautiful, 2016
How 401(k) Fees Destroy Wealth and Investors Can Do To Protect Themselves, 2012
Managed Futures in the Institutional Portfolio, Editor, published by John Wiley & Sons, New York; April 1992.
Handbook of Corporate Earnings Expectations Analysis, Company Performance and Stock Market Evaluation, Editor, published by Probus Publishing, Chicago; March 1994.
Building Capital & Managing Risk, co-writer, Northern Trust Company, 1996.
Web Sites
https://theprogressiveinvestor.org
http://gayfinancialnetwork.com
http://zacks.com
Print periodicals in which by-lined articles have appeared
Barron’s
Institutional Investor
Investing Online (Editor/Publisher)
Treasury & Risk Management
Multinational Business, an Economist publication
Interactive Financial Services (Contributing Editor)
Pensions & Investment Age Magazine (Associate Editor)
Financial Planning on Wall Street
Huffington Post
Global Investment Technology
Wall Street & Technology
Financial Trader
Futures & Options World
Business Insurance
Global Custodian
Inversiones Magazine (Venezuela)
Financial Times of London
Bantam Books
Encyclopedia Britannica
Euromoney Magazine
Contractor Magazine
Corporate Finance
Best Years Magazine
Chicago Tribune
The Public Relations Journal
Chicago Sun-Times
Commerce Magazine
Infrastructure Finance
Intermarket Magazine
Derivatives Strategy & Tactics
Trillion Magazine
Cashflow Magazine
Crain’s Chicago Business
Advertising Age
Telephony Magazine
Chicago Life Magazine
Best Years Magazine
Lens on Campus
Lerner Newspapers
Selling Sporting Goods
Asset International
The Sporting News
Bank Technology
Dollar$ense
Managed Account Reports
Interactive Investor Relations (Newsletter Editor)
Plan Sponsor Magazine
The Money Review
The Money Market Encyclopedia, Harper & Row Publishers, 1983
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