About Liz Peek

Liz Peek was one of the first women on Wall Street to earn that most hallowed of titles --Partner. After graduating with an Honors Degree in Economics and as a Durant Scholar from Wellesley College, she joined a research boutique on Wall Street where she developed an improbable expertise in backhoes, mining equipment, oilfield wireline services and drilling fluids. She became a CFA and in 1975 she moved to Wertheim & Company, a leading equities house which subsequently was bought by Schroder, Inc. and then by Citigroup. During almost two decades with the firm, Liz became a top-ranked analyst covering oilfield services companies, co-head of investment research and head of the firm’s international research department. As a partner she was seconded to Schroder to assist that company’s entry into the equities business at the time of London’s “Big Bang”, and then assigned to build Wertheim’s equities business in Tokyo.

Liz was the first woman to head the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts, a national organization of several hundred energy investors, and was a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Oil and Gas Journal, Wall Street Transcript and other industry periodicals. She was a guest on Wall Street Week and other financial programs.

In recent years Liz has been a columnist with The Fiscal Times and FoxNews.com. For several years she was the business columnist for The New York Sun; she has also written for The Huffington Post, The Motley Fool and published a weekly column on Women on the Web (wowOwow.) She has also contributed articles to Trends, a business periodical in the Middle East, Avenue and The New York Observer. She is a regular guest on FoxNews.comLive and has appeared on other TV programs including Larry Kudlow and Fox and Friends. She has been twice nominated for a Loeb Award.

In the not-for-profit world she chairs the Couture Council, dedicated to supporting the Museum at FIT, is Vice Chairman of the Board of Fashion Institute of Technology, a SUNY college of some 10,000 students, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Central Park Conservancy Women’s Committee. She is married to Jeffrey Peek and has three children.

Recent Columns

• Times Rips Kelly in Typically Misinformed Blast
• What Indiana’s ‘right to work’ bill means for Obama, Big Labor and the U.S.
• How Private Equity Helped Save the U.S. Economy
• Gingrich: Best Offense is a Good Defense
• From Gingrich to Romney to Tebow—Why is the media so out of touch with America?

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Required Reading

• January 20, 2012
  Mitt Romney is a rich man, but is Mitt Romney's character formed by his wealth?
  The Wealth Issue David Brooks The New York Times op-ed January 20, 2012
• December 21, 2011
  The terrible risks of another year of procrastination
  Nouriel Roubini: Financial Times
• December 8, 2011
  The president sounds more like a Corleone than a Roosevelt.
  The Wall Street Journal Obama's Godfather Speech by Daniel Henninger
• September 12, 2011
  Some prople actually believe government can create jobs by taxing and borrowing from people with jobs...
  The Wall Street Journal How to Fight Black Unemployment by Arthur Laffer
• August 20, 2011
  A plague of bad luck and bad faith — a recalcitrant providence and an unpatriotic opposition.
  Bad luck? Bad faith? Charles Krauthammer August 18, 2011 The Washington Post

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