Peter Firestein is a broadly-experienced business and financial writer who delivers the key competencies of the craft. These include the ability to:

• Grasp the essence of any business or financial situation.
• Understand it from the client’s point of view.
• Recognize how communication from the company is heard by the target audience.
• Identify those points where the interests of the client and target audience intersect.
• Organize the message logically.
• Adapt complex and subtle ideas to colloquial language that communicates.

Financial Writing and Investor Relations
As co-head of global IR at Thomson Financial, and head of Latin America consulting, wrote and supervised the writing of annual reports, perception studies, extensive PowerPoint presentations, press releases, executive speeches, conference call scripts, analyst-day exhibits, regulatory documents, and proposals. Project-managed corporate annual reports. Taught financial translation.


Financial Media
Senior Writer, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Dept. of Marketing (Broad Street Productions). Wrote over 100 videoscripts in support of high-yield bond transactions. Covered issuers across virtually all sectors – from heavy industry to technology to global banking. Wrote media histories of many financial products, including high-yield bonds and preferred stock. Wrote all media for Drexel’s Beverly Hills High Yield Bond Conferences, 1985-1989.


Investment Companies
Have written brochures, marketing materials, and internal documents for dozens of mutual funds – both open and closed end – as well as for many varieties of banking products.


Technical
MasterCard International: Wrote 30-page technical description for MasterCard’s global roll-out of its chip-based credit card system. May, 2004.

Advertising
Co-developed concept and wrote ad copy for risk assessment product that gives banks new tools in analyzing private-company credits. Client was a major credit rating agency. June, 2004.

Humor
At Drexel, wrote video satires of deals for one-time-only showings at closing dinners held when transactions were completed.


Publications and Commentary
Currently writing book on relationships between corporations and their major constituencies, including capital markets, communities, employees, governments, and external observers such as environmental and human rights groups.

As advisory board member of the International Advisory Group, published dozens of newsletter commentaries on international politics and economics, focusing primarily on global issues relating to Latin America.

Currently publish commentaries in Investor Relations Magazine (sample here attached).

Publisher, editor Market Bias, a newsletter for investment professionals that tracks investor sentiment by analyzing the dynamics by which markets process news.