My career history

In the Beginning

I began covering Wall Street in 1990 as a reporter for Bloomberg News. I worked out of the press room in the basement of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Fifth Street NW. My job was to cover both the agency and the hundreds of documents that corporations, fund managers, and investors filed on paper with the agency every day.

Four people sitting at a curved wooden table during a formal meeting, with an American flag and the SEC emblem behind them.

These were the SEC Commissioners when I began working as a SEC reporter for Bloomberg in 1990. Richard Breeden, center, was the chairman at the time. Ed Fleishman, to his left, often railed against Breeden’s rulemaking initiatives.

Over the next three decades, I built up a unique expertise – finding financial news and information on Wall Street firms through government filings. This initially meant going through the paper filings with the SEC, where I learned how to understand and analyze myriad documents, ranging from corporate financial statements and merger agreements to holdings reports submitted by hedge and private equity funds.

Entrance of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission building with the address 450 displayed above the glass doors.

I worked in the basement of this building for almost 20 years.

Competition to find news in SEC filings heated up as the agency made documents more widely available online. I responded by delving into filings that get less attention from the media, often because the information within is harder to dig out. I also began exploring the dockets of other government agencies, developing a unique ability to source information from lesser known documents that are hard to understand, difficult to acquire, or both.

After a 34-year marriage that had its fair share of ups and downs, Bloomberg and I parted ways at the end of 2024. This provided the opportunity to exercise my entrepreneurial bent: I created my own news and research website, a step that more and more journalists are taking in the digital age.

The new company, Deadline Disclosures, will provide proprietary information for money managers and their businesses, about capital raising, fund financing and investment trends. I also do research on a contract basis and help clients source documents that might contribute to their own due diligence and research efforts.