Expertise Based on Experience

Terry Savage is a nationally recognized financial authority and television personality. Her new book, The Savage Truth On Money, published in October 1999, was named one of the "ten best money books of the year" by Amazon.com. It has joined her previous books -- Terry Savage's New Money Strategies For The '90s and Terry Savage Talks Money -- on the best-seller lists. And The Savage Truth on Money has been made into an hour-long television special program now airing on PBS stations across the country.

Terry is the Chicago Sun-Times personal finance columnist and answers readers' questions online at her web site (www.terrysavage.com.). She is also the personal finance columnist for Barrons Online, and is one of three featured financial experts on Microsoft's MoneyCentral website. Terry is a regular business commentator on PBS' Nightly Business Report and is often featured as a guest expert on CNN, CNBC, and other national programs -- offering advice on investments and personal financial planning. You've seen her many times on Oprah! In 1997 Savage was named the Outstanding Personal Finance Columnist by the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Terry Savage's financial expertise comes from experience. She started her career as a stockbroker, and became a founding member -- and the first woman trader -- on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. She was co-editor of "Options Trading Strategies" an investment newsletter. Savage was also a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's International Monetary Market where she traded interest rate contracts and currency futures. She is a registered investment advisor for both stocks and futures.

For 12 years Terry Savage appeared daily on the CBS television station in Chicago, giving the day's business and financial news, as well as hosting "Money Talks" -- a daily financial interview program. She has won numerous awards for her television reporting, including the National Press Club award for "Outstanding Consumer Journalism." She also won an Emmy for her hour-long special: "Money -- It Doesn't Grow on Trees."

Terry Savage takes an active role in America's business community, serving on the Board of Directors of McDonald's Corporation and Pennzoil-Quaker State Company. In l993 Terry was a recipient of the "Director's Choice Award" honoring selected women who serve on America's top corporate boards. Savage is also a director of The Economic Club of Chicago, The Executives' Club of Chicago, and Junior Achievement of Illinois. She serves as a Trustee of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and a director of Northwestern Memorial (Hospital) Corporation.

Terry Savage is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan where she won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in American history and economics.