Larry Light is a well-known financial journalist with more than 30 years of experience at top publications. His latest book is the nonfiction investment title TAMING THE BEAST (John Wiley & Sons). As former senior editor for investing at Forbes magazine and deputy personal finance editor at the Wall Street Journal, he has won many journalism awards. He also has been a reporter and editor at Business Week and Newsday. He now writes a blog called "Advice on Advisors" for Forbes, and is a contributor to the Journal and Barron's. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve.