Letters from Home: A Wake-up Call for Success and Wealth

David Reiser is a senior vice president–wealth management at MorganStanley SmithBarney, with offices in Westport, Connecticut, and Newport, Rhode Island. With over 24 years of professional wealth management experience, he is a Certified Financial Planner^TM, a Senior Investment Management Consultant, and serves on MSSB’s Consulting Group Advisory Board. David is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He holds an MBA from The Lally School of Management & Technology and an MS from the College for Financial Planning. He is a co-author of Wealthbuilding: Investment Strategies for Retirement and Estate Planning (Wiley, 2002), and has appeared on CNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, Bloomberg TV, and PBS. In his free time, David enjoys fine dining, Broadway theatre, and bodysurfing with his four sons at the beach in Amagansett, New York.

A graduate of Boston University College of Communication, Andrea Reiser is an alarm clock, banker, censor, chauffeur, cheerleader, chef, chief justice, chore delegator, coach, concierge, confidante, correctional officer, crossing guard, curfew warden, diplomat, disc jockey, entertainer, fashion stylist, facilities manager, hairdresser, homework advisor, housekeeper, hygiene consultant, internet safety monitor, inventory manager, juggler, loan officer, lost-and-found attendant, magician, nurse, paramedic, party planner, peacekeeper, personal assistant, purchasing agent, recreation director, referee, reference librarian, relationship specialist, repairperson, shepherd, shipping/receiving agent, snuggler, teacher, transportation coordinator, travel agent, waitress, and zookeeper. More simply put, she’s a mom with a sense of humor. A co-author of Wealthbuilding: Investment Strategies for Retirement and Estate Planning (Wiley, 2002), Andrea’s interests include cooking, live music, fine dining, interior decorating, nonfiction reading, digital photography, blogging, musical theater, and root-root-rooting for the Boston Red Sox. In addition, she’s on a never-ending quest to create the world’s yummiest chocolate chip cookie.

David and Andrea Reiser are proud to contribute 100 percent of royalties and other income from the publication of the book by supporting three personally meaningful charities in the following proportion: 50 percent to Share Our Strength (www.strength.org), 40 percent to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (www.mskcc.org), and 10 percent to FORCE (www.facingourrisk.org).