Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne

About the Author

Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne

Gil Weinreich has been the editor of Research magazine since 1997. During his editorship, the magazine, which reaches some 90,000 investment advisors, has gained broad acceptance within the wirehouse advisor community. Research has also won the prestigious award for Excellence in Financial Journalism conferred by the New York Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) in each of the seven years from 2003 to 2010. Gil himself won the first two of those awards for a pathbreaking column he wrote in 2003-2004 called “The Ethical Advisor.”

At Research, Gil has participated as a speaker, panelist or moderator at numerous industry conferences — from the World Series of ETFs to the Retirement Income Industry Association to various broker-dealer conferences; he’s lectured on ethics at Credit Lyonnais and keynoted at Dalbar’s financial professional conference.

Prior to Research, Gil worked as an international news reporter at Voice of America (VOA), where he wrote news for VOA broadcasts, mainly on the Africa and Mideast desks, and covered international news events. He produced live news shows, documentaries and feature programs, and won a journalism award for his coverage of breaking events in the Middle East. Earlier in his career, he worked at U.S. News and World Report in Washington, D.C., where he produced the weekly letters page.

Gil’s first book — on a non-financial topic — was published in 2010, prompting appearances on the Michael Medved show and other national radio programs.

Gil received his Master’s degree at American University in Washington, D.C., where he studied international relations. He earned his Bachelor’s degree at U.C. Berkeley, in political science.

Gil and his wife Nedra and their children live in Los Angeles’s Westside.

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  Time to Exit Market, Warn El-Erian, Rosenberg, Kotlikoff

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 23, 2013

  PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian is one of many prominent names voicing a deep skepticism of the stock market, suggesting the time to exit risky assets is at hand.

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  Andy Friedman: Which Wealth Transfer Tactics Will Survive Congress?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 22, 2013

  Act now to transfer wealth, Washington Update analyst Andy Friedman warns, because Congress is likely to close some loopholes while forging a budget compromise needed to raise the debt limit.

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  Inexperienced Plan Sponsors Need a Little Love From Fund Websites

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 21, 2013

  Fund firms managing employee retirement accounts make it needlessly difficult for plan sponsors to fulfill their fiduciary obligations, a new Dalbar study has found.

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  Where are the Financial Geniuses?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 17, 2013

  Research Affiliates says firms seeking to find patterns of mispricing must encourage the critical evaluation of nonconformist ideas.

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  Move Over, Saudi Arabia, and Let North Dakota Take Over

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 14, 2013

  A buyer’s market in oil is in the making and will bring about disruptive market change that should benefit American manufacturers and consumers and prove challenging for Middle Eastern producers and European refiners.

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  Five Years After the Crisis, Can We Prevent the Next One?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 13, 2013

  The U.S. has made progress, but measures like money-market fund regulation are needed to avert future financial instability, a Fed governor says.

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  Advisors Mulling a Move Should Check the Elephant in the Room

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 10, 2013

  Conversations about career transitions tend to focus on the advantages of making a move while ignoring the risks of moving, Cetera says.

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  Advisors More Likely to Switch Firms With Family’s Approval

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 9, 2013

  Memo to recruiters: A focus on the financial advantages of switching firms may ultimately be less effective than demonstrating how a move might improve the advisor’s work-life balance.

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  Is College Worth It?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 8, 2013

  Former Education Secretary William Bennett's new book questioning the value of college is flying off the shelves, while researchers jokingly predict universities will soon offer a master’s in janitorial studies.

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  Small Alternatives Firm CEO Casts Large Shadow

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 3, 2013

  Altegris is not a huge company, managing around $3.3 billion in client assets. But the Genworth-owned firm casts a large shadow for at least a few reasons.