Jay Cooper Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO

• 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

Denver, CO

• 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.
• 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.
• Worked with external marketing and public relations agencies to ensure clarity of the Janus message
• Managed junior investment writers

New York, NY

• 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

Seattle Washington

• 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

New York, NY

• 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

New York, NY

• 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

Tulsa, OK

Covered several different beats during a five-year reporting career

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), 3.8

* Interned for a digital marketing agency while in school * Conducted a social media research project for the Kansas City Royals.

Bachelor Of Journalism, Journalism