EDITOR
 Michael Peltz oversees all editorial operations, including its magazine and digital properties. From July 2009 to July 2011, he was Executive Editor, responsible for overseeing the editorial content of Institutional Investor’s Americas edition. Prior to that he was Editor of Institutional Investor's Alpha, a leading magazine dedicated to covering the hedge fund industry. During his two decades as a financial journalist, Michael has closely followed Wall Street, asset management, hedge funds and other alternative investments, derivatives and trading. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he has also worked at Worth and Bloomberg Markets magazines. |
INTERNATIONAL EDITOR
 Tom Buerkle has has spent more than 20 years in Europe covering finance, economics and politics for the magazine, and previously for the International Herald Tribune and Dow Jones. He writes frequently on banking, regulation and economic policymaking. |
ART DIRECTOR
 Nathan Sinclair is art director of Institutional Investor and AR: Absolute Return + Alpha magazines. He has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers, the Advertising & Design Club of Canada, and American Society of Business Publication Editors for excellence in magazine design and has previously worked on the design of Ski and Maclean's magazines. He currently lives in New York. |
RESEARCH MANAGING EDITOR
Thomas W. Johnson is responsible for the editorial presentation of the company's world-renowned research and rankings, including The All-America Research Team. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Financial Planning and executive editor of On Wall Street magazines. Before that he was a reporter and editor at the New Jersey News Tribune and the Bucks County (Pa.) Courier Times. His work has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association, and the Philadelphia Press Association. |
MANAGING EDITOR
Catheryn Keegan has worked in magazine publishing on the editorial side for more than ten years, including various positions at Condé Nast. Keegan previously worked as a management consultant at Deloitte. She earned her MBA from Baruch College and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). |
LONDON BUREAU
 Loch Adamson is the London bureau chief of Institutional Investor. She joined the magazine seven years ago and has spent the past five years based in the U.K., primarily covering the asset management industry and pan-European regulatory issues for the magazine. Prior to joining Institutional Investor, Ms. Adamson spent five years writing for Worth magazine. She is currently on academic leave until June 1, having been named the 2011 Donald W. Reynolds Nieman Fellow in Business Journalism at Harvard University. |
ASIA BUREAU
 Allen T. Cheng is the Asia bureau chief of Institutional Investor., and also Editor-in-chief of IIChina.com, Institutional Investor’s new online Chinese language service that caters to Chinese investors globally. Cheng has more than 24 years of journalism experience covering business, finance and politics in the U.S. and Asia. Prior to joining Institutional Investor, he was Bloomberg News' China political correspondent based in Beijing. Over the course of his career, he has worked for several Fortune 500 media companies, including Gannett Co, publisher of USA Today, and Time Warner Inc. He is the co-author of a major magazine package on global sovereign wealth funds, which won first place for magazine investigative journalism in the 2009 U.S. Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Awards. |
WEB EDITOR
 Barry J Whyte is the web team leader for Institutional Investor . Before coming to the U.S. he worked for three years as a web journalist for RTE.ie, the website of Ireland’s national broadcaster (Ireland’s version of the BBC, or NPR). After that he worked for three years for The Phoenix magazine, Ireland’s foremost politics and financial investigative magazine. He came to New York to study at Columbia University School of Journalism, where he earned a master’s degree and was a fellow of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. He has written two non-fiction books. His website is www.barryjwhyte.com . |
ASSOCIATE WEB EDITOR
 Ben Baris writes and edits content for print and web for Institutional Investor and Institutional Investor's Alpha. He helps manage the editorial team and the production of the website. He graduated from Emory University in 2011 with a degree in economics. Prior to joining II, he worked in investor relations and wealth management. He currently lives in Manahattan. |
SENIOR WRITERS
 Frances Denmark has been a senior writer at Institutional Investor magazine since June 2007. Prior to that she managed a financial writing practice for twelve years, contributing to Institutional Investor, Alpha, Plan Sponsor Magazine, Wall Street & Technology, Bloomberg Wealth Manager and Trader Monthly. Denmark holds an M.B.A. degree from Pace University and previously worked as a training and development professional and was a clinical social worker with an M.S.W. from New York University. |
 Imogen Rose-Smith is a senior writer with Institutional Investor, covering asset management, alternative investments and the capital markets. Between December 2005 and the summer of 2009, Imogen was a staff writer for Alpha, Institutional Investor's hedge fund publication. Prior to joining Institutional Investor she worked as an associate editor for Trader Monthly. Imogen began her journalism carrier at Money Management Letter, an Institutional Investor News publication covering the defined benefit pension industry. |
 Julie Segal is a senior writer for Institutional Investor and has been a contributor to the Magazine since 2006. She covers investment management, including institutional managers, retail mutual fund houses, wealth management, retirement, hedge funds and private equity. Before joining the magazine, Julie was an executive editor, managing editor and a writer for various publications in Institutional Investor's newsletter division. Julie founded II's first publication devoted to financial operations and technology in the mid-1990s, and also was instrumental in shaping II's online strategy. Julie lives in New Jersey. |
DEPUTY ART DIRECTOR
Diana Panfil is deputy art director of Institutional Investor and AR: Absolute Return + Alpha magazines. Her work has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers and the American Society of Business Press Editors. She has previously designed for a variety of publications including The New York Times and Psychology Today and currently resides in New York City. |
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 Jeffrey Kutler is editor-in-chief of Risk Professional magazine, the flagship publication of the Jersey City, New Jersey-based Global Association of Risk Professionals. He joined GARP in December 2008 from Institutional Investor, where he served as assistant managing editor, focusing primarily on banking and technology, from 2000 to 2005, and as U.S. editor in 2007-'08. Between those stints, Kutler was editor-in-chief of the weekly Securities Industry News. Before 2000, he worked for about 20 years for the daily newspaper American Banker and some of its affiliates, rising to the position of executive editor. He is a contributor to institutionalinvestor.com's technology and risk management coverage. |
 Stephen Taub has been a financial/business journalist for more than 30 years. He is a senior contributing editor of Institutional Investor magazine and a contributing editor of Absolute Return-Alpha . He was previously V.P. of content for cfo.com, editor of individualinvestor.com and editor-in-chief of Financial World magazine. |