Warren Boroson writes a weekly financial column for Gurufocus.com.

He has been a financial columnist for various newspapers and magazines. Recently he has begun giving stand-up comedy performances. Click here for one that can be seen on YouTube.

He won the top business news-writing award from Rutgers/CIT for the year 2000, an award he had also won in 1990. In 1996, he won the Investment Company Institute/American University personal finance writing award. In 2002 and 2004 he won the N.J. Press Association's top business-writing award.

Boroson has written more than 20 books, including Keys to Investing in Mutual Funds (Barrons) and How to Buy a House for Nothing (or Little) Down (Wiley). His most recent books are How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett (Wiley) and The Reverse Mortgage Advantage (McGraw-Hill).

He was formerly on the staffs of Money Magazine and Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, and he has had articles published in the New York Times Magazine, Woman's Day, TV Guide, Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, Consumer Reports, Family Circle, Word Study, Across the Board, Cosmopolitan, and elsewhere.

He has taught at the New School University, the College of Morris in Randolph, N.J. He has taught at Fairleigh Dickinson, Ramapo College, and Rutgers University.

Boroson is a graduate of Columbia College (Phi Beta Kappa) and lives in Hackensack, N.J. and Woodstock, N.Y.