Andrew Leckey
Andrew Leckey writes SUCCESSFUL INVESTING, a nationally syndicated column packed with straightforward investment strategies and informative commentary. Twice each week, in alternating Q&A and essay style, he offers sound advice to readers on a wide range of personal finance and investment issues. This lively column draws a large volume of reader mail.
"The Distinguished Service Award in Investment Education" was presented to Leckey by the National Association of Investors Corp., which has thousands of investment clubs around the world. He has won numerous local and national writing awards.
Leckey's financial journalism experience includes being an anchor on CNBC television and contributing editor to the Quicken.com Web site. The author or editor of 10 books on business and investment topics, Leckey was series editor of the annual anthology "The Best Business Stories of the Year" from Random House. Other books, such as "The Lack of Money Is the Root of All Evil: Mark Twain's Timeless Wisdom on Money and Wealth for Today's Investor" from Prentice Hall Press, have been translated into foreign language editions around the world.
Leckey is currently the director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism located at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. The center conducts workshops around the country on business journalism topics and runs the BusinessJournalism.org Web site specifically geared to the needs of business journalists. He served as the first director of the Bloomberg Business Journalism Program at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a visiting professor in business journalism at Boston University. He was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism and a fellow of The Media Studies Center, both at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He now serves on the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship advisory committee.
Andrew Leckey Samples
IPO Activity Is Up, But Examine Each Offering Carefully
Technology has been a driving force in this year's initial public offerings. Consider ChangYou.com Ltd., a Chinese online game developer whose stock price jumped 25 percent at its offering day in April on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
New Partnerships Lift Liz Claiborne Shares, but Debt Issues Loom
Q. What is the outlook for my investment in Liz Claiborne Inc.? A. Sales of this famous women's clothing maker have picked up and management says it has become "less melancholy" about the upcoming holiday season.
Holidays May Be Merry for Some Retailers
A holiday season of high unemployment and nervous consumers would seem to dictate coal in the stockings of all retailers and their shareholders, yet some have reason to be jolly.
Aetna Working Hard in a Tough Environment
Q. My shares of Aetna Inc. have been disappointing. A. Health care continues to be a demanding business, even for a company that has worked hard to greatly improve its financial fortunes.
For Shareholders, Cost-Cutting Can Cut Both Ways
Companies have cut costs to the bone in this brutal recession. Lost jobs, shuttered facilities and difficult mergers are commonplace throughout corporate America.
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