Carol Junge Loomis is an American financial journalist

Journalist

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, and editor-at-large at Fortune

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magazine.

She attended Drury College, and graduated from the University of Missouri

University of Missouri

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, with a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1951.

In 1966, she coined the term "hedge fund

Hedge fund

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" in Fortune.
In 1976, she was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Federal Consolidated Financial Statements.
In 1980, she was one of six panelists at the presidential debates of Ronald Reagan and John Anderson.

For many years she has been widely regarded as the business journalist on closest terms with multi-billionaire Warren Buffett.

Awards

• 1993 Gerald M. Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2000 Women's Economic Round Table award for print journalists
• 2001 Time Inc.'s Henry R. Luce Award
• 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award, Society of American Business Editors and Writers

Works

• "A conversation with Warren Buffett", Fortune, June 25, 2006
• "Warren Buffett's Wild Ride at Salomon", October 27, 1997
• "The 15% Delusion", FORTUNE, February 5, 2001

External links

• "Fortune magazine senior editor returns to MU", Missourian, KATY STEINMETZ, September 13, 2008
• "Carol Loomis Q&A", University of North Carolina, Chris Roush, Sept. 12, 2005
• Carol Loomis articles at Byliner
• "MONEY & ETHICS", News Hour, June 27, 2002
• "Carol Loomis", Charlie Rose
• "Happy 80th birthday, Carol Loomis"