Bob Brinker

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| name = Bob Brinker

| image = Bob Brinker.jpg

| birth_name = Robert John Brinker

| occupation = Financial advisor and radio host

| birth_date = {{birth date|1941|10|01}}

| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|08|18|1941|10|01}}

| death_place =

| education = La Salle University

| url = {{url|http://www.bobbrinker.com/}}

}}

Robert John Brinker (October 1, 1941 – August 18, 2024) was an American financial advisor and radio host. From 1986 to 2018, Brinker hosted the syndicated financial radio show Moneytalk. He previously had a show on local New York radio on WMCA. Prior to that Brinker hosted talk radio programs on WCAU (now WPHT) and WWDB in Philadelphia.

Early life and career

Born in Philadelphia on October 1, 1941,{{citation|url=https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=directories&id=urn:contentItem:594M-GYM1-DY09-X103-00000-00&context=1516831|title=Brinker, Robert J.|work=The Complete Marquis Who's Who Biographies|year=2017|access-date=January 21, 2020|via=Nexis Uni|url-access=subscription}}{{cite web|title=Detailed Company Information|url=http://www.edgarcompany.sec.gov/servlet/CompanyDBSearch?page=detailed&cik=0000703954&main_back=32|publisher=Securities and Exchange Commission|access-date=April 6, 2013}} Brinker graduated from La Salle College High School. In 1964, Brinker graduated from La Salle University with a B.A. in economics. He then did master's degree studies in communications and finance at Temple University and became a news anchor with Philadelphia news radio station KYW in 1966.{{Citation|author=Bilovsky, Frank|title=Starship Moneytalk|work=La Salle|date=Spring 1993|url=https://archive.org/stream/lasalle3719921993unse#page/n15/mode/2up|pages=10–12|volume=37|number=2|quote=...the 51-year-old Brinker, LaSalle Class of '64...}}

Financial career

In 1970, Brinker joined Provident National Bank as a portfolio manager. In 1973, Brinker became an investment officer with New Jersey National Bank. While working in New Jersey, Brinker was the adjunct professor of finance at Rider College in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Brinker was a vice president and investment counselor with the Bank of New York from 1974 to 1981. Then from 1981 to 1992, Brinker was U.S. chief investment officer with the London-based British firm Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance. Brinker is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society New York.

Radio career

During the late 1970s, Brinker hosted weekend talk shows on WCAU and WWDB in Philadelphia. Brinker also became the play-by-play radio voice for La Salle and Villanova college basketball.

File:Marketimer newsletter header reproduction made with Inkscape.svg reproduction of Bob Brinker's Marketimer newsletter header]]In 1981, New York City radio station WMCA hired Brinker to host an investment talk show. ABC Radio launched Brinker's nationally syndicated program Moneytalk in 1986. The show was heard on over 200 radio stations nationwide and was also streamed worldwide on the internet. Brinker began publishing the Marketimer newsletter in 1986. Marketimer covers market timing, the Federal Reserve, and mutual funds among other topics. Marketimer is listed on the Hulbert Financial Digest Investment Letter Honor Roll. Moneytalk aired on Sundays from 4 to 7 p.m. (Eastern Time).{{cite web|title=MoneyTalk with Bob Brinker|url=http://www.citadelmedianetworks.com/article.asp?id=362257|publisher=Cumulus Media Networks|access-date=November 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004070225/http://www.citadelmedianetworks.com/Article.asp?id=362257|archive-date=October 4, 2012|url-status=dead}}

In 2014, talkers.com named Brinker to its list of the 100 most important radio talk show hosts of all time. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television & Radio Artists.

After more than 32 years of hosting nationally syndicated "MoneyTalk," Bob Brinker decided to step away from radio. The last live broadcast of the program was on September 30, 2018. The final edition of the Marketimer newsletter was published June 2023. In mid-June, newsletter recipients received a letter saying that the newsletter was ending publication following 450 monthly editions beginning in January 1986.

Personal life and death

Brinker lived in Henderson, Nevada.{{cite web|last=Doherty|first=Jacqueline|title=The truth about timing|url=http://www.barrons.com/articles/SB1004756712494481760|work=Barron's|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20170605171526/http://www.barrons.com/articles/SB1004756712494481760|archivedate=June 5, 2017|date=November 3, 2001|url-status=dead}} He was married and had three grown children. Brinker has also lived in Cocoa Beach, Florida.{{cite web|last=Bergen|first=Kathy|title=Bob Brinker's Talk Show Has Gotten Investors' Ear|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/01/04/bob-brinkers-talk-show-has-gotten-investors-ear/|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=November 21, 2021|date=January 4, 1998|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714175529/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-01-04/business/9801040296_1_dividend-distributions-asset-class-shady-characters|archive-date=July 14, 2014|url-status=live}}

Brinker died on August 18, 2024, at the age of 82.{{cite web | url=https://substack.com/@bobbrinker/note/c-66057852 | title=Bob Brinker on Substack | date=20 August 2024 }}{{cite web | url=https://rivera.mykeeper.com/RobertBrinker | title=Robert John Brinker | website =My Keeper }}