Gabriel B. Wisdom
Gabriel Wisdom is known for communicating complex ideas through finance, broadcasting, and through nonprofit media and creative writing. Whether helping investors understand markets, or writing speculative fiction, his work has been guided by a simple belief – informed people make better decisions.
A money manager, broadcaster, author, and nonprofit founder, Wisdom’s career spans several decades at the intersection of finance, media, public policy, and education.
He is Co-Founder and Managing Director of American Money Management, LLC (AMM), an SEC-registered investment advisory firm serving individuals, institutions, and retirement plans. During his investment career, he has overseen thousands of client relationships. Before co-founding AMM, he spent fifteen years as an executive with three NYSE member firms; Shearson Lehman Brothers, Prudential-Bache Securities, and Sutro & Co / John Hancock.
Wisdom also co-founded an Ohio mutual fund trust company that was later acquired by Mutual Shareholder Services. He serves as a Director-Shareholder of Monterey Holdings, LLC, a national specialty consumer finance company headquartered in Oceanside, California.
Committed to public service, Wisdom is a voting member of the San Diego County Treasury Oversight Committee, which reviews the County’s Investment Pool assets and treasury operations.
His broadcasting career began in 1968 during the birth of free-form FM radio at KPRI San Diego before moving to KGB-FM San Diego and KMET Los Angeles, plus radio syndication. Wisdom was involved in presenting hundreds of major rock concerts and music festivals. He has appeared as a daily television and radio financial commentator, contributed to KPBS and National Public Radio, and interviewed many of the leading figures in science, entertainment, business, and popular culture. His early radio persona is briefly portrayed in Cameron Crowe’s Academy Award-winning movie, Almost Famous (watch video segment) Almost Famous 2000
Wisdom is the founder and FCC licensee of KRAM-FM 90.5, a non-commercial public radio station that brings KPBS San Diego news and programming to Borrego Springs and surrounding desert communities. He is also the founding director of the Ram Media Foundation, a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening local journalism, public broadcasting, youth media education, and civic engagement. The Foundation owns and operates KRAM-FM, as well as the community’s daily digital newspaper, The Borrego Sun.
Wisdom on Value Investing by Gabriel Wisdom is published by John Wiley & Sons and translated into Chinese by China CITIC Press. His articles have appeared in numerous financial publications, including Forbes.com. More recently, he has turned his attention to speculative fiction, where science, environmental issues, and human nature intersect. His novels and short stories explore the relationship between historical events and plausible future scenarios.
Wisdom graduated from the Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program (OPM-26) and serves on the board of the Harvard Business School Alumni Club of San Diego. He earned an Advanced Undergraduate Diploma in Data & Systems Analysis from the University of Oxford, a Bachelor of Science in Quality Systems Management (National Graduate School of Quality Management, Boston) an MBA, and two post-graduate degrees (MA Novel Writing, PhD English / Speculative Fiction) from Middlesex University, London. He is also a Certified Director (UCLA Anderson) and an Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF®).
An FAA Certified Flight Instructor and pilot, he has long combined aviation with his business, charitable, and creative pursuits throughout the American West.
Gabriel and his wife, Diana, a clinical psychologist, live in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Together they support education, public media, literacy, and community service.
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