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Alice Schroeder

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Bloomberg News columnist and former regulator, CPA, and Wall Street analyst Alice Schroeder is the author of the #1 bestseller The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, which spent four months on the New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller list. The Snowball was named Amazon’s #1 Top Business and Investing Book of 2008. New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin called it one of her ten favorite books of 2008. Both TIME and People magazines named The Snowball one of the ten best books of the year, among other accolades. In 2008 Ms. Schroeder was chosen alongside Ben Bernanke and Hillary Clinton as one of the “People to Watch” by BusinessWeek.

Ms. Schroeder began her career as an auditor in the Houston office of Ernst & Young. After a stint in the firm’s national headquarters, she joined the Financial Standards Accounting Board. She drafted some of the most significant accounting standards affecting the insurance industry, FAS 113 and EITF Consensus Positions 93-6 and 93-14. Rather than take the typical route into the industry after the FASB, Schroeder joined Dowling Partners, a boutique investment banking firm in Boston. Schroeder next became a managing director at first Oppenheimer & Co., then PaineWebber, where she was voted by clients a member of the Institutional Investor All-America Research team in recognition of her property-casualty insurance research.

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