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Ken Kamen
Nonfiction – Personal Finance, Technology
Nationally recognized financial expert and advisor
Ken Kamen is the president of Mercadien Asset Management with nearly four decades of experience in the securities and personal finance industries. Kamen is a nationally recognized financial expert and advisor. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Reclaim Your Nest Egg: Take Control of Your Financial Future. He is also president of Mercadien Securities and was a past chairman of the National Investment Banking Association, the preeminent national association of regional banking firms. Kamen has consulted with the U.S. House of Representatives Commerce Committee and Ways and Means Committee, testified before the House Subcommittee on Finance and served as chairman of a business advisory group to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Oversight and Investigations Sub-Committee on matters surrounding financial and accounting reforms as well as small business issues. He is frequently called upon by national print and broadcast media to comment on a wide range of financial- and investment- related topics and trends. Kamen appears regularly on CNBC, Reuters and Fox Business Channel, has contributed to Forbes.com and is a sought-after speaker.
For more on Ken, please visit his website.
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BOOKS:
Reclaim Your Nest Egg (2010)
Don’t Let Technonogy Crack Your Nest Egg (2020)
Your biggest literary influences:
Working with my editor, Dale Burg, has reframed how I look at writing and reading. Dale has taught me how concise writing and tight editing make for compelling reading, and I now appreciate when I see it in other people’s writing.
Last book read:
The Vince Flynn Series: Lethal Agent
The book that changed your life:
The Da Vinci Code. For twenty years after graduating college, I primarily read business related periodicals, research reports, financial statements and prospectuses. I read The Da Vinci Code over a long weekend cover to cover and it reminded me how much I enjoyed reading fiction. Now I read all kinds of books, which has helped me better prioritize my time in and out of the office.
Your favorite literary character:
No favorite.
Currently working on:
Enjoying sharing my book Don’t Let Technology Crack Your Nest Egg. I am also writing articles related to the intersection of technology and personal finance.
Words to live by:
“The definition of true success is tranquility.”
Advice for aspiring authors:
Write, rewrite and then get an editor! Have someone else check that your writing and thinking match.
Reviews:
Testimonials:
“I like Ken because he explains everything in plain English – which happens to be my first language.”
– Yogi Berra
“Ken Kamen’s Reclaim Your Nest Egg is the most sensible, straightforward, andcomprehensible book on personal finance I’ve read. Calm and reasonable in its tone, detailed in its advice, the book sends the key message that everyone has to be his or her own financial advisor and gives you the confidence to take on the task.”
– Howard Fineman, American Journalist
“With compelling anecdotes and clever cultural allusions, Ken teaches about the often-hidden elements of technology that directly affect our lives—and bank accounts—in real time. He consistently entertains while providing helpful insights and lessons that are easily applied to daily life.”
– Jared Willig, SVP, Digital–Townsquare Media
