Jean Sherman Chatzky
Editor-at-Large, Money Magazine

Jean Sherman Chatzky was named an editor-at-large of Money magazine in February 1998.

Celebrated journalist and author, Chatzky joined the nationís largest financial publication after a five-year run at its rival monthly, SmartMoney, where she was a key member of its start-up staff.Ý In addition to editing Money stories on various personal-finance topics, she writes Money Talk, a monthly column on consumer issues and financial planning.

Starting her career in 1986 as an editorial assistant at Working Woman, Chatzky soon rose to assistant editor before joining the New York-based start-up staff of the U.S. edition of Britainís Business Traveler International, where she served as an associate editor.Ý In 1989, she joined Dean Witter as a research associate.Ý She returned to journalism two years later, joining Forbes as a reporter/researcher.Ý She moved to the Dow Jones/Hearst start-up SmartMoney in 1992, rising from staff writer to senior editor.

The author of The Rich and Famous Money Book (John Wiley & Sons; 1997), Chatzky also has done extensive television and radio work, appearing, for example, on WNBC-TVís Today in New York, MSNBC and NBCís Today Show, where she currently serves as financial contributor.

Born in Michigan and raised in Wisconsin and West Virginia, Chatzky holds a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania.Ý She lives in Briarcliff Manor, NY with her husband Peter and their two children.

Frank A. Cappiello
Economist and Financial Expert

Frank A. Cappiello is one of the countryís premier lecturers on financial analysis.Ý For both the novice and the expert, he breaks down complex economic and investment theories, enabling your entire audience to be both entertained and educated.

Until 1996, Cappiello served for more than twenty-five years as a member of the Advisory Investment Committee that oversees the $20 billion Maryland State Retirement System Fund.Ý Prior to that, he was the research director of a major stock brokerage firm, and was chief investment officer for an insurance holding company, with overall responsibility for managing assets of $800 million.

McCullough, Andrews & Capiello, Inc., of which Frank is president, provides asset management to individual and institutional investors.Ý He is also founder of Closed-End Fund Advisors and The Bank of Maryland, with $220 million in assets before merging with Mason-Dixon Bancshares.

In his book, Finding the Next Superstock (95,000 copies sold to date), Cappiello sets forth a blueprint for finding the Wal-Marts and Microsofts of the future.Ý He has also written From Main Street to Wall Street and Frank Cappielloís New Guide to Finding the Next Superstock.Ý His latest, The Complete Guide to Closed-End Funds, has already gone through four editions.

Cappiello is known best to television viewers as a regular panelist on the award-winning television program, Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser, shown weekly on 250 stations with a viewing audience of 10 million people.Ý He has been a frequent guest on ABCís Good Morning, America, as well as CNNís Moneyline and CNNís Financialís Market Sweep.Ý He is probably the only Wall Street personality who has his name on mutual funds (The Carnegie-Cappiello Funds) and an Italian recipe (Eggplant Cappielloóa featured dish at Chiapparelliís, a top rated restaurant in Baltimore).

A graduate of the Universityof Notre Dame and Harvard Universityís Graduate School of Business Administration, Cappiello also holds an honorary doctorate in business and economics from the Milwaukee School of Engineering.Ý He is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award in Investment Education by the National Association of Investment Clubs and is listed in Whoís Who in America.Ý In 1991, he was inducted into the Wall $treet Week Hall of Fame.

Capiello has been a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, is currently distinguished visiting professor of finance at Loyola College in Maryland, and was recently named executive in residence for Mary Washington University.Ý He has also lectured at a number of universities including the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicagoís Graduate School of Business, UCLA, and Santa Clara University.

Frank resides in Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife Marie.Ý They have three children.

Chuck Jaffe
Syndicated Personal Finance Columnist, The Boston Globe

Charles A. Jaffe is the personal finance and mutual funds columnist at The Boston Globe. His weekly columns are syndicated nationally, along with Short Course and Financial Housekeeping, two features he writes on financial basics.

Chuck was recently named by The Journal of Financial Reporting to its "Blue-Chip Newsroom" for 2000. The publication, which observes and comments on business journalism, calls the blue-chip newsroom "business journalism's dream team." His second book, "Chuck Jaffe's Lifetime Guide to Mutual Funds: An Owner's Manual," (Perseus Books) was released in November 2000. A revised edition of his successful first book, "The Right Way to Hire Financial Help," (MIT Press) will be out by the spring of 2001.

Chuck joined the Globe in June 1994 after six years as business editor and columnist at The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. While at that paper, he won several national prizes for financial journalism, including the Investment Company Institute's Award for Excellence in Personal Finance Reporting, the New York State Society of CPAs Excellence in Financial Journalism Award and a National Press Club consumer journalism award.

Prior to joining The Morning Call, he was a business writer at the St. Petersburg Times. Chuck has been a member of the board of governors for the Society of American Business Editors & Writers since 1992 and heads SABEW's Personal Finance Interest Group. He was elected to SABEW's executive committee in April 1999. He has a degree in economics and communications from the University of Michigan.

Chuck lives on the South Shore with his wife and two daughters.

Jack Sirard
Personal Finance Columnist, The Sacramento Bee