FundFire - About Us

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 is managing editor of FundFire. He joined the publication in 2004 as a reporter and then associate editor, covering pension funds and institutional asset managers. He's 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 is associate editor and reporter covering wealth management and the high-net-worth sector. He has worked as a reporter and editor for 17 years 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 212-542-1222.

Paul O'Dowd is a reporter covering asset management firms. Before joining FundFire, Paul covered the money management arena at Institutional Investor News. A lifelong New Jerseyite, he holds a journalism and mass communications degree from St. Bonaventure University.

Whitney Kvasager is a reporter covering public and corporate pensions and foundations and endowments. She has also worked at The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh and New Jersey's Herald News. She graduated from The Evergreen State College in Washington and is a recipient of a Poynter Institute reporting fellowship. Her last name is pronounced "kah-sa-ger."

Scott Johnson is a reporter covering institutional asset managers. An economics graduate of the College of William & Mary, he has written political news and features for publications in Virginia and the Southwest.

Jay Cooper is a reporter covering investment consultants and multi-managers. He has extensive reporting experience, including covering asset managers, pension plans and foundations and endowments.

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.

Gregory Shulas is an Interactive Editor for FundFire and sister publication Ignites. He has previously served as senior reporter at Agenda, Money-Media's publication for corporate boards. He has also served as 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.

Jonathan E. Braunstein is Interactive Editor at Money-Media, the parent company of FundFire. Prior to this position, he was News Analyst at Agenda, a sister publication that covers corporate boards of directors. Jonathan worked as a television news producer and writer in Boston for two network affiliates, most recently at WHDH, Boston's NBC affiliate. Originally from New Jersey, he is an alumnus of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.

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.

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

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.

Content Sales

Michael Cronan Michael Cronan is the Senior Vice President of Content Sales for Money-Media. In this role he oversees the content sales for new business and renewals as well as ticket sales for conferences. Prior to Money-Media, Michael has spent over 15 years working at b to b companies such as Wolters Kluwer, ALM, McGraw-Hill, Thompson and Ziff-Davis, where he held a progressive series of sales and marketing positions.

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.

Renewals and Reprints

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 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 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 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.

Violeta Shkreli Violeta Shkreli has shifted locations from the Financial Times office and is now bringing a Financial Times presence to Money Media, as an Advertising Account Director, on the Asset Management and Services Advertising Team.

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 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 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.

Marketing