Welcome to FundFire

Overview

Fundfire is the leading U.S. online news service for professionals working in the institutional and high-net-worth asset management industry. It is published every business morning and delivered electronically to almost 50,000 readers.

Fundfire provides its readers with all the relevant asset management news in one place each day and alleviates information overload. Coverage focuses on:

  • Investment trends and product development
  • Brokerages, RIAs, SMA platforms and high-net-worth investors
  • Institutional mandates, hires, fires and key people moves
  • Investment consultants, RFPs, sales and marketing strategies
  • Hedge funds, private equity and alternative investments
  • Regulatory changes and high-profile legal cases
  • Service providers, technology, and fund company operations

Fundfire offers all the news you need in one place with concise stories that breakdown the most important issues in the industry. Fundfire also offers reader polling, webinars on hot topics, Q&A forums with experts, and video clips from industry conferences and proprietary interviews.

Fundfire is sold as a site license and generally is offered to all the employees at a subscribing company.

Editorial

Chris Larson Chris Larson

Chris Larson has been managing editor of FundFire since January 2009 and oversees all editorial content on the site. He joined FundFire in 2004 as a reporter and then associate editor, covering pension funds and institutional asset managers. He has worked as a journalist for numerous newspapers, magazines and Web sites in New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands.

Tom Stabile Tom Stabile

Tom Stabile is associate editor and senior reporter covering wealth management and the high-net-worth sector. He has worked as a reporter and editor for two decades at magazines, newspapers, and trade publications in New York, Washington, D.C., and Santo Domingo covering business, education, government, criminal justice, and the arts. Contact Tom at tstabile@fundfire.com.

Mariah Summers Mariah Summers

Mariah Summers is a reporter covering asset managers for FundFire. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She has reported for the New York Daily News, Willamette Week in Portland, Ore., and the Portland Tribune.

Matt Gunn Matt Gunn

Matt Gunn is a reporter covering public and corporate pensions. Prior to joining FundFire, Matt worked as an associate editor covering retail and commercial banking for Bank Systems & Technology. He has also reported on technology, education, healthcare and sports in Denver and New York. Matt holds a B.A. in journalism from the Metropolitan State College of Denver.

Greg Saitz Greg Saitz

Greg Saitz is a reporter covering institutional asset management firms. Prior to joining FundFire, Greg worked as a business writer for The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, where he wrote about securities fraud, bankruptcy and other topics. Earlier in his career, he worked at newspapers in Florida, covering legal affairs, criminal justice, social issues, government and, on occasion, celebrity divorces. He holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Florida.

Kathleen Laverty Kathleen Laverty

Kathleen Laverty is FundFire's mass-media reporter. Kathleen is a Canadian journalist now living in Ireland, where she edits Construction, the journal of the Irish Construction Industry Federation. She previously was senior staff writer on Canada's leading energy magazine, Oilweek. She also has extensive experience as a newspaper editor and reporter.

Ed Lieber Ed Lieber

Ed Lieber is an Editor for FundFire and Money-Media. For most of his 20-year career he has worked in Manhattan as an editor, reporter and freelancer for market-leading trade publications and websites covering various industries, including real estate, consumer electronics, hotel management and retail. He graduated from Hofstra University and holds a BA in Journalism and English.

Caren Chesler Caren Chesler

Caren Chesler is FundFire's morning editor and has been a journalist for more than 20 years. A former managing editor of FundFire, she has worked as a staff writer for Investment Dealers' Digest, American Banker, Euromoney, Investor's Business Daily and the Asbury Park Press. She now freelances, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The New York Daily News, Bloomberg Business News, and Modern Bride.

Jonathan E. Braunstein Jonathan E. Braunstein

Jonathan E. Braunstein is Editorial Director – Events and Custom Publishing at Money-Media, FundFire's publishing company, responsible for the editorial content of conferences, networking events and webcasts. Prior to Money-Media, Jonathan worked as a television news producer and writer in Boston at WHDH, Boston's NBC affiliate, and WFXT, Boston’s Fox affiliate. Originally from New Jersey, he is an alumnus of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.

Gregory Shulas Gregory Shulas

Gregory Shulas is an interactive editor for FundFire. He was previously a senior reporter at Agenda, Money-Media's publication for corporate boards, a wealth management reporter for FundFire and a staff writer for the Connecticut Post. The New Jersey native has a B.A. from the University of Delaware.

Dan Butcher Dan Butcher

is associate interactive editor at Fundfire. Before joining Money-Media, he covered mobile marketing, media and commerce, and before that he worked as a travel writer for consumer and trade publications. He graduated cum laude from the University of Colorado at Boulder and earned his M.A. from New York University.

Danielle Sottosanti Danielle Sottosanti

is a reporter on FundFire's interactive team. She was previously a reporter at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, where she was the recipient of two 2007 Arizona Press Club Awards in growth and development reporting (first place) and political reporting (second place). She holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature and composition from the University of Arizona and a Master’s degree in literature and modernity from the University of Edinburgh in the U.K.

Andrew Willmott Andrew Willmott

Andrew Willmott is group managing editor of Money-Media, with oversight of all of the company's editorial publications. He has worked at Money-Media since 2001, as a reporter and then managing editor of FundFire. Contact Andy at 212-542-1203.

Gavin Daly Gavin Daly

Gavin Daly is Executive Editor and Managing Director at Money-Media, a Financial Times company. Publications under Daly's editorial direction, including FundFire, Agenda, BoardIQ, Ignites and Ignites Europe, have averaged more than 90% renewal rates each of the past six years. His portfolio also includes The Outstanding Directors Exchange conference series for board directors. Before joining Money-Media in 1999, he was with The Boston Globe, The Hartford Courant and Institutional Investor. Daly graduated from the University of Connecticut.

Sales and Marketing

Jon Abelack Jon Abelack

Jon Abelack is the director of sales for Money-Media. His background lies in financial conference marketing and he has been a list broker as well.

Dan Fink Dan Fink

Dan Fink is the Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Money-Media. In this role he oversees subscription sales and renewals, conference sales, marketing, graphics and customer service. Prior to Money-Media, Dan managed an e-commerce website for Computer Associates' consumer division and was the head of the Direct Marketing department at Loan Pricing Corp. Dan earned an MBA at Indiana University and was a national champion gymnast.

Chris Pini Chris Pini

Chris Pini is the Vice President of Sales for Money-Media. In this role he is oversees subscription sales and renewals, along with sales in our events and custom publishing division. Previously, Chris worked for 15-plus years in different sales roles at a leading asset management company and financial data providers. Chris holds a BA in Business Management from Saint Peter’s College.

Renewals and Reprints

Grail Jennings Grail Jennings

Grail Jennings is the director of subscriber management for Money-Media. Previously, she worked in business development in the fashion industry. Grail is originally from Northern Ireland and studied at F.I.T. in New York City. She loves to travel.

Advertising

Andrew Sollinger Andrew Sollinger

In January 2009, Andrew Sollinger was appointed Managing Director of the FT's US commercial operations, which include the Financial Times and Money-Media, the market leader in online news and commentary on fund management and corporate boards. Previously, Sollinger was Managing Director of Money-Media and was a part of the executive team that sold Money-Media to the FT in January 2008. Before joining Money-Media in 2005, he was Group Publisher of Capital Markets at Thomson Media in New York, where he held various roles in strategy and new product development from 1997-2004. Prior to joining Thomson, he was an editor with Institutional Investor for 10 years, including a year each in London and Hong Kong.

Rachel Umansky Rachel Umansky

Rachel Umansky is Group Head of the Asset Management & Services team for Money-Media and the Financial Times. Rachel is responsible for overseeing this advertising team and sales growth for FundFire, Ignites, Ignites Europe and BoardIQ as well as integrated growth across the suite of FT products. Previously, Rachel sold print and online advertising for a securities industry publication. Prior to this, she managed conferences and online seminars in the financial markets. She holds a BA in Communications from Tulane University.

Jennifer  Rasmussen Jennifer Rasmussen

Jennifer Rasmussen is a director of advertising, focusing on money manager advertisers in the Northeast. In this role, she is responsible for advertising sales and placement for FundFire and Ignites. Jennifer most recently was an Assistant Portfolio Manager for a hedge fund in Connecticut. Prior to her endeavor into ad sales, Jennifer gained experience in selling financial products to Real Estate Investment Trusts. She holds a BA in Economics Management from Ohio Wesleyan University. Jennifer is an avid traveler and in her free time enjoys running, skiing, kayaking and playing squash.

Kerry Savage Kerry Savage

Kerry Savage is the Sales Director for Job Blast, the job board of FundFire and Ignites. In this role, Kerry works with hiring managers looking for exposure to the money management industry's most informed professionals. Kerry was previously the Employment Advertising Sales Manager for various Thomson Media publications such as The Bond Buyer and Asset Securitization Report.

Rachel Wang Rachel Wang

Rachel Wang is the Advertising Services Manager for Money-Media. In this role, she is responsible for managing numerous advertising campaigns across all of Money-Media's publications. She joins us from FHM/Emap Metro LLC, where she was Online Production Controller.

Kim  Gorman Kim Gorman

Kimberly Gorman is an Ad Sales Representative for Money-Media. Kim holds a Bachelors of Science in Economics, from Clemson University. Kim joins Money-Media with an extensive background in Radio Advertising, Marketing, Community Organizing and Public Programs Administration.