ABOUT THE AUTHOR
EDWARD J. WINSLOW JR. is the senior partner and founder of PM Investments and is one of the most creative and knowledgeable financial consultants in the country. He avoids traditional investments such as stocks and mutual funds while providing a unique strategy for building and safeguarding wealth.
Ed was the founder as well as chairman of First Affirmative Financial Network, the nation’s first broker/dealer to specialize in socially responsible investing. He was also founder and president of First American Financial Cooperative, the nation’s first cooperatively owned financial planning firm.
Ed has been recognized in Who’s Who in the West and Who’s Who in Finance and Industry. He was the first recipient of the prestigious SRI Service Award recognizing his unique contribution to the social investment industry.
Before going into the investment field in the early 1980s, Ed served as treasurer of a credit union, accounting supervisor for a major computer manufacturer, accounting/financial officer of a property and casualty insurance company, and as an accountant for a major airline.
Ed has achieved numerous professional designations: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC), Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), Fellow Life Management Institute (FLMI), and Associate in Risk Management (ARM).
Contact Ed at Protect Money Investments, P.O. Box 66, Jacksonville, OR 97530; web site: www.protectmoney.com; email: [email protected].
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Berrett-Koehler is an independent publisher of books and other publications at the leading edge of new thinking and innovative practice on work, business, management, leadership, stewardship, career development, human resources, entrepreneurship, and global sustainability.
Since the company’s founding in 1992, we have been committed to creating a world that works for all by publishing books that help us to integrate our values with our work and work lives, and to create more humane and effective organizations.
We have chosen to focus on the areas of work, business, and organizations, because these are central elements in many people’s lives today. Furthermore, the work world is going through tumultuous changes, from the decline of job security to the rise of new structures for organizing people and work. We believe that change is needed at all levels—individual, organizational, community, and global—and our publications address each of these levels.