David E. Adler is the author of Snap Judgment: When to Trust Your Instincts, When to Ignore Them, and How to Avoid Making Big Money Mistakes (FT Press, July 2009). Adler is a frequent contributor to Barron's, the contributing high-net-worth writer for Financial Planning Magazine and has written for Institutional Investor, Psychology Today, and the New Republic. He was recently awarded a grant by the CFA Institute Research Foundation to conduct a study of tax awareness in investment decision making by wealth managers. Mr. Adler was educated at Oxford University and Columbia University and holds an M.A. in economics from Columbia.