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Markets editor of Chief Investment Officer magazine, former CBS MoneyWatch writer/editor, WSJ investing editor, Forbes finance editor, Business Week reporter
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Larry Light’s Biography

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.