Institutional Investor hires Thrasher for RIAIntel

Michael Thrasher

Michael Thrasher, a reporter for WealthManagement.com, has been hired by Institutional Investor to work on its new publication, RIAIntel.

He has been at WealthManagement.com since January 2017.

Thrasher has covered brokerages, RIAs and everything that impacts them for WealthManagement.com and Wealth Management magazine. He has written about mergers and acquisitions, regulatory changes, technology and industry trends.

He previously worked as a research analyst for ValuePenguin and interned at Business Insider.

Institutional Investor launched RIAIntel earlier this year.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.