Welcome to the web site of husband-and-wife authors and syndicated columnists Alan Lavine and Gail Liberman

Gail Liberman and Alan Lavine are husband-and-wife personal finance columnists and best-selling authors based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Their latest book is “Quick Steps to Financial Stability (Que/​Penguin)."

Their columns run in Dow Jones Retirement Weekly and the Palm Beach Daily News. The two are contributing editors for Financial Advisor magazine.


Over the years, their columns have run regularly in the Boston Herald, Dow Jones MarketWatch, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Scripps newspapers on Florida's Treasure Coast, America Online, Savannah Morning News, Marysville, Calif. Appeal-Democrat, CNBC.com and FoxBusiness.com.

Columns by the couple have been cited in congressional testimony--at least on the subjects of consumer protections in financial services, credit card practices and financial regulatory reform.

Their best-selling book, “Rags to Riches: Motivating Stories of How Ordinary People Achieved Extraordinary Wealth! (Dearborn, 2000),” was featured on Oprah's television show.

Among their other highly-acclaimed books: “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds (Alpha),” “Rags to Retirement (Alpha),” “More Rags to Riches (Dearborn),” “Love, Marriage & Money (Dearborn)” and “Improving Your Credit and Reducing Your Debt (Wiley),” endorsed by the ICFP (now the Financial Planning Association).

You may have seen or heard the couple on television and radio. They have been guests on CBS's “The Early Show;” CNN’s “In the Game,” “The Money Club,” and “Dolans Unscripted;” CNBC’s “Today’s Business” and “Money Talk;” The 700 Club, WGN’s morning show in Chicago; NBC’s “Weekend Today” and “Nightside,” “Fox & Friends” and Fox’s “Good Day, New York,” PBS’ “Nightly Business Report,” “ABC Radio Network,” Houston ABC’s “Debra Duncan Show” and Bloomberg TV and radio.

They have been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Money magazine, USA Today, the New York Times, Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, The Washington Post, Redbook, First for Women, Town and Country, Bride's, and Elle.

Liberman's own column, "Managing Your Fortune," runs in the Palm Beach Daily News. She helped launch Bank Rate Monitor (now Bankrate.com) in North Palm Beach, Florida, and was editor of the publication for 15 years. An award-winning journalist, she began her career with the Associated Press, United Press International, and United Features Syndicate. She also was a reporter for the Courier-Post, a Gannett newspaper in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Liberman obtained her Bachelor's degree in journalism from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. She holds a Florida real estate license.

Lavine, a former registered investment advisor, is a contributor to Registered Rep. His columns ran in the Boston Herald for 25 years and he penned an investment research column for the Journal of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors for 10 years. He was on the ground floor of the mutual fund industry as former director of research for IBC/​Donoghue, now iMoneyNet.com, of Westborough, Massachusetts. His articles also have appeared in the New York Times, Individual Investor, American Banker, American Lawyer Inc., Annuity Market News and Financial World. During the 1980s, his family finances research was cited by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.

A guest lecturer at Cornell University, Lavine has spoken before such groups as the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Massachusetts Psychological Association, and Morningstar Inc.'s Mutual Fund Conference.

Lavine has a Bachelor’s degree from Kent State University and Master's degree from the University of Akron. He did post-graduate studies in finance and economics at Clark University.

He has authored “Getting Started in Mutual Funds (Wiley);” “50 Ways to Mutual Fund Profits (McGraw-Hill);” “Your Life Insurance Options (Wiley);” “Diversify Your Way to Wealth (McGraw-Hill),” an alternate selection of the Fortune Book Club; and “Diversify: Investors Guide to Asset-Allocation Strategies (Dearborn).”

Both Liberman and Lavine have contributed to Consumers Digest, Your Money, and Worth magazines. Also, the Journal of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, and Financial Planning magazine.

They are listed in Marquis's Who's Who in America and are members of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.