Bruce W. Fraser
brucew.fraser@gmail.com
http://www.bwfraser.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bwfraser/
New York - based business journalist and content provider with extensive expertise in investment- related topics including wealth management, financial planning, personal finance, investments, risk management, small business and retirement issues. My writing interests also include: social issues, environment, healthcare, insurance and politics.
Looking to leverage my experience in a role as a freelance financial writer/content provider or contributing editor.
Professional Experience
Business Journalist and Editor:
Corporate Partnerships:
Foreign affairs journalism:
Education:
Professional affiliations:
brucew.fraser@gmail.com
http://www.bwfraser.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bwfraser/
New York - based business journalist and content provider with extensive expertise in investment- related topics including wealth management, financial planning, personal finance, investments, risk management, small business and retirement issues. My writing interests also include: social issues, environment, healthcare, insurance and politics.
Looking to leverage my experience in a role as a freelance financial writer/content provider or contributing editor.
Professional Experience
Business Journalist and Editor:
- Developed news and feature articles through networking and interviews with Wall Street experts and corporate executives
- Work published by
- NY Daily News (Your Money Section)
- The Wall Street Journal
- Fidelity Investments
- Christian Science Monitor
- Bloomberg Wealth Manager
- Crain’s New York Business
- Financial Planning & Financial Advisor
- On Wall Street
- Bankrate.com
- Worth Magazine
- CNBC.com
- Forbes.com
- Worth.com
- Portfolio.com
- Work published by
- Screened, selected and edited financial authors for a life-style /self-help book entitled “60 Things To Do When You Turn 60” (now in its 6th printing, Ronnie Sellers Publishing )
- Wrote and edited The Treasury Manager and The AMEX Special Situations Newsletter
- Taught communications courses at:
- Baruch College (CUNY)
- PACE University
- Bureau Chief:
- Whitney Communications, New York City, New York
- Fairchild Publications, Houston, Texas
Corporate Partnerships:
- J.P. Morgan Chase
- Developed practice- management guides for use as sales tools by Chase’s key brokers/dealers, such as Merrill Lynch. Titles included:
- “Converting to a Fee-Based Business”
- "Creating Profitable Client Relationships”
- “Working with Your Sales Assistant”
- Developed practice- management guides for use as sales tools by Chase’s key brokers/dealers, such as Merrill Lynch. Titles included:
- TD Ameritrade
- Revised telephone “TradeDirect” brochure for use by customers and branch offices; edited 260-page brokerage manual for company’s independent financial advisors
- Schwartz Law Firm
- Conceptualized and wrote practice- management brochure
- Oppenheimer Funds
- Interviewed company’s international bond fund manager and produced a Q & A for annual report
- Other partnerships included:
- Impact Communications ( Client: Securities America, many others)
- CNBC.com
- Warren Financial (edited blogs)
- Sherwood Forest (crafted press materials)
- Savvy Ladies
Foreign affairs journalism:
- Extensive travels in Europe and South America on assignments for the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications
Education:
- Masters in Journalism & Political Science,
Professional affiliations:
- American Society of Journalists and Authors
- New York Financial Writers’ Association