For EY.com, I provided editorial brief guidance and helped authors conceive, write and edit many articles. I also wrote social, email and ad language to promote the content and related services. Just a few of many examples:
The collaboration needed for US nuclear power projects (see PDF download)
How private equity investment in consumer packaged goods brands can increase value
Private equity's hidden value creation opportunity: the balance sheet
What drives value in chemicals industry carve-out strategy
For Global Finance Magazine, freelance Q&As:
FIS Group CEO Tina Byles Williams on China, trade, and recession.
Veridium CEO James Stickland on cybersecurity risks and biometric identification.
As a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Columbia Business School, I went on a group social-enterprise journey across India and was awarded for the paper, "Enterprising India: Profits and the Poor." (Read the PDF: CBS archive or my LinkedIn education section.)
Chicago Tribune stories by Dimitra DeFotis:
Immigrants and faith: Profile of an expanding suburban Chicago Hindu house of worship and article on the Greek language debate in US Orthodox Christian churches.
Barron's investing stories by Dimitra DeFotis are moving offline. Try the Barron's DeFotis article search and read PDFs in the Dimitra DeFotis Barron's section on LinkedIn.
In the technology sector, Dimitra DeFotis exlained the appeal of Microsoft stock before it quadrupled, blogged about Apple and wrote about fintech.
On energy, I organized and edited MLP roundtables in 2012 and 2013 and wrote the Investing in Big Oil cover story. I spoke on CNBC after a story on Iran and oil prices.
On debt, income and dividends: A column on EM Bonds, a data-screen on 13 dividend payers and Q&As on bonds and banks.
On the Great Financial Crisis:
Why pension funding math didn't add up in 2008, and insiders were selling.
Why shares of Chicago's Northern Trust held appeal.
In April 2009, calling a market bottom after a CBS b-school prof lectured on prayer ("Contemplating Recovery.")
For, Barron's I wrote Q&As based on interviews with portfolio managers, executives, investors and market experts. A small selection:
Franklin Templeton's Mark Mobius talked in 2013 about China, Africa, smallcaps, and Bitcoin.
Favorite large cap stocks from Don Yacktman.
One of the first Q&As with Carson Block, a critic of China's reverse mergers.
RBC Commodity Strategist Helima Croft on oil prices and State Department work in Nigeria.
9 Undervalued stocks from around the world from Tocqueville's James Hunt.
Barron's emerging markets columns and blogposts by Dimitra DeFotis:
ASIA: Popular topics included any Vietnam investing theme and China.
AFRICA: Investing in Africa funds and ETFs and blogposts on Nigeria oil and geopolitics.
GREECE: I said in 2010 that the pain was not over for Greek stocks.
INDIA: I liked India's equity prospects in 2016 and explained risks in 2017. I blogged on the US H1-B visa and why India's economy needs more working women.
LATIN AMERICA: I explained Argentina's IPO boom, debt default angst in Venezuela, elections in Brazil and Mexico, and state oilco news at Petrobras and Pemex.
RUSSIA: On risk in 2014.
SAUDI ARABIA: On the Saudi currency dollar peg and doubts about Aramco's IPO in 2017.
TURKEY: I was skeptical about Turkish equities after the 2016 coup attempt despite a pitch from Turkish CEOs who visited me and editors at Barron's.
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