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Pamela J. Black

Editor-In-Chief, Bank Investment Consultant

Pamela J. Black is editor in chief of Bank Investment Consultant and managing editor of Financial Planning magazine. A former editor at Business Week, Worth, Individual Investor and Folio; and a senior financial writer at J.P. Morgan, she has been writing and editing financial stories for 25 years. Her has work also appeared in Barron’s, The New York Times Magazine, Smart Money, The New England Financial Journal, Bottom Line and Ladies Home Journal. She is a graduate of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Pamela’s Recent activity

Does Your Client Have That Personality?
Mar 01, 2005
When Jim King sits down with clients for the first time, he hands them the usual forms and risk-assessment questionnaires and a Myers-Briggs personality test, the same one used by top corporations to size up potential...
Why More Reps Are Getting Their Kicks on Route 66
Feb 01, 2005
Not long ago, becoming a registered investment advisor (RIA) was hardly considered a rep's best career move. In the early years of this decade, many of the registered reps switching to a Series 66 RIA designation had...
Going Mainstream
Mar 01, 2004
Three years ago Barton Biggs, the curmudgeonly chief global strategist of Morgan Stanley, said a hedge funds had gripped the United States and Europe and that a was inflating. Biggs allowed that he didn't know when...
FEED THE RICH
Nov 01, 2003
Yes, the rich are different from you and me, most notably in terms of the financial advice they seek. If you aspire to serving these folks and who doesn't these days? be prepared to bone up on the special issues and...
A Separate Reality
Jan 01, 2003
The separately managed account revolution might well be sweeping the financial services industry transforming sales-junkie brokers into fee-based financial consultants with the knowledge to design and implement...