• Work with executives, investment staff and marketing teams to create marketing campaigns that establish the asset manager as a thought leader on a particular issue• Write blogs, white papers, opinion columns, market commentaries and other material for asset management firms on a recurring basis• Ghostwrite paid and earned media placements for asset managers and other financial services firms

Produced content for the Schwab Newsroom, a news-based content program leveraging paid media and email to share Schwab's outlook on financial markets

• Responsible for all public- and client-facing material representing Janus equity products including whitepapers, mutual fund commentaries, financial market perspectives, analyst Q&As, quarterly sector outlooks, social media content and other material to support our marketing efforts• Owned projects from idea generation phase through final release of material• Worked with a broad range of stakeholders to generate input and incorporate feedback in written material including the retail and institutional sales and marketing teams, individual wholesalers, compliance, sector analysts, portfolio managers and the chief investment officer• Worked with external marketing and public relations agencies to ensure clarity of the Janus message• Managed junior investment writers

• Started a new area of coverage for the publication, reporting on the investment consulting industry• Worked with institutional investors to uncover problems they faced during the market collapse and subsequently wrote stories about how those new challenges were being met • Wrote detailed stories on the specific nuances consulting firms analyze in a firm’s investment process• Used new media to help asset managers better communicate how they were solving investment issues

• Repackaged complex information from investment staff into easily digestible written material for clients• Implemented innovative conference calls to put clients at ease during the market downturn• Analyzed survey data and produced the firm’s annual Family Business Survey, a report distributed to family business owners throughout Seattle in order to find new wealthy clients for the firm• Wrote marketing collateral and sales material to communicate the firm’s values and services• Worked with internal tax experts to write material that communicated how changes in tax laws might affect clients

• Wrote stories communicating how issues in the broader economy affected the investment landscape• Excelled at investment writing: Won a Chicago Headliner’s Club Award for in-depth feature stories on the 20th anniversary of the October 1987 market crash, detailing what investors learned from the event• Balanced multiple projects writing breaking news for the web site and stories for the bi-weekly print publication• Spoke with chief investment officers at asset management firms to get their opinions on where the market was headed

Developed and relied upon an elaborate network of sources to stay abreast of the most topical and important issues facing the investment management industry• Wrote stories in a high-pressured, deadline environment to deliver must-have content to our readers on a daily basis• Spoke with endowments, foundations, pension funds and wealth management firms to assess investment trends, needs and concerns in the institutional investment industry• Spoke with money management firms to assess how they were competing against rivals to gain institutional investment clients

Covered several different beats during a five-year reporting career