Eric Tyson

Eric Tyson is an internationally acclaimed and best-selling personal finance author, lecturer, and advisor. He is dedicated to teaching people to manage their money better. Eric is a former management consultant to businesses for which he helped improve operations and profitability. He has been involved in the investing markets in many capacities for more than three decades. In addition to investing in securities and mutual funds over recent decades, Eric has also successfully invested in real estate and started and managed his own business. He has counseled thousands of clients on a variety of investment quandaries and questions. An accomplished freelance personal finance writer, Eric is the author or co-author of numerous best-selling books including For Dummies books on Personal Finance, Mutual Funds, Taxes, and Home Buying and is a syndicated columnist. Personal Finance for Dummies was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Business Book of the Year. His work has been featured and quoted in hundreds of national and local publications, including Newsweek, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and Bottom Line/Personal, and on NBC's Today Show, ABC, CNBC, PBS's Nightly Business Report, CNN, CBS national radio, Bloomberg Business Radio, National Public Radio, and Business Radio Network. He's also been a featured speaker at a White House conference on retirement planning.