Research Magazine Contributors 

Janet Levaux, MBA/MA, is the managing editor of Research; reach her at jlevaux@researchmag.com. She has worked as a features editor and writer for Investor’s Business Daily and a community news editor and columnist for The Contra Costa Times.

Kenneth Silber is a senior editor at Research. His work on science, economics and history has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal. He hosts a monthly radio show on the Business Talk Radio Network.

Gil Weinreich is the editor of Research. He won the Excellence in Financial Journalism award in 2004 and 2005 from the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants for his path-breaking column, “The Ethical Advisor.” Formerly an award-winning international news reporter, Gil has been covering the financial services industry for close to a decade.

Raphael Lapin is a Harvard-trained negotiation and communication specialist. He is the principal of Lapin Negotiation Strategies, a training and consulting company, and author of Working With Difficult People, part of DK Publishers’ (Penguin Books) Essential Managers Series. He can be contacted at relapin@conflict-management.net.

John Bowen is the founder and CEO of CEG Worldwide.

Howard Schneider: The founder of the consulting firm Practical Perspectives near Boston, Schneider has worked for Scudder Investments and served as chairman of the Mutual Funds Education Alliance.

Dennis Gallant is president of GDC Research, Gallant was previously a director of the consultancy Cerulli Associates and a vice president for Funds Distributor in Boston.

David Macchia runs Wealth2K, www.wealth2k.com, a financial-services media and marketing company focused on retirement income. He is on the board of the Retirement Income Industry Association, a non-profit group concerned with retirement security.

Mitch Anthony is the Chicago-based founder and president of Advisor Insights, the parent company of MitchAnthony.com, The Financial Life Planning Institute, PracticeTools.net and NewRetirementality.com.

R. Gina Renee is a freelance writer based in Kansas City, Mo.

R.J. Shook is founder and president of the Winner’s Circle, LLC. The firm’s research appears in three annual Barron’s cover stories, and is featured in dozens of regional publications including San Francisco Business Times, Los Angeles Business Journal, Crain’s Detroit Business, and Connecticut Magazine. For more information visit www.WCorg.com. The Winner’s Circle is a registered trademark of The Winner’s Circle, LLC.

Moshe Milevsky, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Individual Finance and Insurance Decision (IFID) Centre and an associate professor of finance at York University in Toronto. The popular speaker and author most recently published Are You a Stock or a Bond? Create Your Own Pension Plan for a Secure Financial Future.

Patricia J. Abram is a senior managing partner with CEG Worldwide in Florida; see www.cegwordwide.com

Bill Good is chairman of Bill Good Marketing. His Gorilla CRM System helps advisors double their production or work half as much; visit www.billgood.com. His semiminar program, “No More Pies,” helps advisors manage ETF portfolios using technical analysis; see www.nomorepies.net.

Jane Wollman Rusoff is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and contributing editor of Research. She is the founder of Family Star Productions.

Ellen Uzelac is a freelance writer and Research contributing editor based in Chestertown, Md.; the former West Coast bureau chief and national correspondent for The Baltimore Sun can be reached at ellenuzelac@msn.com.

Mary Scott is the co-author of Companies with a Conscience and can be reached at maryscott303@comcast.net.

Bill Miller was once a mildly amusing comedian, and he now works as a recruiter for a top independent broker-dealer; reach him at writingbill@mac.com. 

Marie Swift is the president of Impact Communications, a marketing and communications firm for independent advisors; see www.impactcommunications.org.

Alexei Bayer is head of KAFAN FX Information Services. His monthly “Global Economy” column in Research has received an excellence award from the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants for the past six years, 2004-2009. He previously worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit and Standard & Poor's.