Jeff is a nationally known financial writer with more than 30 years experience as a newspaper reporter and editor, including 20 years at
The Philadelphia Inquirer. From 1995 to 2007 he wrote the nationally syndicated Inquirer column
On Personal Finance, which ran on the front page of the Inquirer's business section on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. The column was picked up by more than 100 newspapers around the country.
The column covered the whole spectrum of personal-finance issues, from budgeting, saving and investing to plannng for retirement to choosing mortgages and buying cars.
Today he writes a similar column for MSNBC.com, as well as writing for publications such as The Washington Post and Knowledge@Wharton, the internationally known business Journal at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, where Jeff also teaches writing.
Jeff broadcasts a weekly personal-finance column on WHYY, the Philadelphia public radio station. He has been a guest on WHYY's Radio Times, on CNBC, and on CN8's Money Matters. He is a co-author of the 2005 Wharton Publishing book Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of Our Times.
In the late 1990s Jeff proposed, planned and hosted the Inquirer's highly successful annual Intellegent Investing conferences, which drew thousands of attendees and exhibitors to the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
Jeff has addressed many groups, from trade and professional organizations to investment clubs.
Prior to taking over the On Personal Finance column in 1995, Jeff was the Inquirer's Wall Street correspondent.
Earlier in his career he covered commercial real estate and the maritime industry for the Inquirer, as well as economic development in New Jersey. Prior to joining the Inquirer in 1986, Jeff was a reporter at The Dallas Times Herald, The Minneapolis Star and the Norfolk Virginian-pilot.
He graduated in 1974 from Kenyon College with a double major in political science and English.