Name Laurel Kenner | Books Practical Speculation | |
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Education University of California, Los Angeles | ||
Laurel Kenner (born in Santa Monica, California in 1954) is a New York writer.
Her commentaries on financial markets have appeared on MSN Money, worldlyinvestor.com, and TheStreet.com. She co-authored the book Practical Speculation (John Wiley & Sons, 2002) with Victor Niederhoffer.
From 1995 to 2000, she was chief US stocks editor and copy desk chief at Bloomberg News in New York. During the period 1989-1994, she was an award-winning aerospace reporter for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers.
She holds a bachelor's degree in piano from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she studied with Aube Tzerko and won the Atwater Kent, Kosciusko and Frank Sinatra awards for music performance.
In 2013, she founded Glassery, an online retailer of plastic-free glass kitchen products.
Laurel Kenner is the mother of Aubrey Darwin Niederhoffer, born in 2006.