The winner of this item, plus two guests, will meet A. Michael Lipper for lunch at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, NJ on a mutually agreeable date, and receive an autographed copy of his book MONEY WISE: How to Create, Grow and Preserve Your Wealth (St. Martin's Press).

A. Michael Lipper is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and the president of Lipper Advisory Services, Inc., a firm providing money management services for wealthy families, retirement plans and charitable organizations.

A former president of the New York Society of Security Analysts, Mike Lipper created the Lipper Growth Fund Index, the first of today’s global array of Lipper Indexes, Averages and performance analyses for mutual funds. After selling his company to Reuters in 1998, Mike has focused his energies on managing the investments of his clients and his family.

Mike’s unique perspectives on world markets and their implications have been posted weekly at Mike Lipper’s Blog since August, 2008.