User:MaryGaulke/sandbox/Ric Edelman requests

Hi! Edelman Financial Engines has hired me to draft some edits for this article. Here's what I'm proposing, broken out by section. Here's a mockup of the article with all the edits implemented.

Lead

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 * I recommend moving this information into the new "Industry recognition" section (below), where I've also provided details on how I propose updating it.
 * I recommend moving this information into the new "Industry recognition" section (below), where I've also provided details on how I propose updating it.


 * Deleting  – I recommend moving this information into the new "Personal life" section (below), and I've provided a source for it.


 * Deleting  – I recommend moving this information into the new "Personal life" section (below).

Edelman Financial
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Edelman Financial Engines  Ric and Jean Edelman co-founded Edelman Financial Services, LLC. is a financial advisory firm, in 1987 with offices in the Washington D.C., New York, Orange County, and Dallas metro areas. He was chairman of the company from 1987 to 2018. Edelman sold a majority stake of Edelman Financial Services to Sanders Morris Harris Group, a wealth management firm, in 2005. In 2015, private equity firm Hellman & Friedman became the majority owner of Edelman Financial Services. In 2018, Hellman & Friedman also took the merged Edelman Financial Services with another firm, Financial Engines , private and merged the two firms into the newly named to form Edelman Financial Engines. Ric Edelman took up the a position on the Board board of the combined firm as chairman of, where he oversees financial education and client experience. In 2019, InvestmentNews named Edelman to its list of "20 people who helped shape the financial planning industry."

==Edelman Financial Engines== Ric and Jean Edelman co-founded Edelman Financial Services, a financial advisory firm, in 1987. He was chairman of the company from 1987 to 2018. Edelman sold a majority stake of Edelman Financial Services to Sanders Morris Harris Group, a wealth management firm, in 2005. In 2015, private equity firm Hellman & Friedman became the majority owner of Edelman Financial Services. In 2018, Hellman & Friedman merged Edelman Financial Services with another firm, Financial Engines, to form Edelman Financial Engines. Ric Edelman took up a position on the board of the combined firm, where he oversees financial education and client experience.

Industry recognition

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 * The 2018 ref – archived here – is a ranking for Edelman Financial Services, not Edelman personally. I added the 2016 Forbes ranking along with a ref on the methodology of how that ranking worked, the 2019 InvestmentNews and Investopedia rankings, and the Talkers Magazine acknowledgment.
 * The 2018 ref – archived here – is a ranking for Edelman Financial Services, not Edelman personally. I added the 2016 Forbes ranking along with a ref on the methodology of how that ranking worked, the 2019 InvestmentNews and Investopedia rankings, and the Talkers Magazine acknowledgment.
 * The 2018 ref – archived here – is a ranking for Edelman Financial Services, not Edelman personally. I added the 2016 Forbes ranking along with a ref on the methodology of how that ranking worked, the 2019 InvestmentNews and Investopedia rankings, and the Talkers Magazine acknowledgment.

==Industry recognition== In July 2001, Edelman's book Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth appeared at #1 in the paperback "Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous" category of the New York Times Best Seller list. Edelman was ranked the #1 Independent Financial Advisor in the United States by Barron’s in 2009, 2010, and 2012. In 2016, Forbes ranked Edelman among the top 10 wealth advisors in America. In 2019, Barron's added Edelman to its Financial Advisors Hall of Fame. Also in 2019, InvestmentNews named Edelman to its list of "20 people who helped shape the financial planning industry" and Investopedia named Edelman one of its top 100 financial advisors. The editors of Talkers Magazine ranked Edelman #69 in its 2020 "Heavy Hundred" list of the most important radio talk show hosts in America.

Personal life
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 * Edelman grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He majored in communications at Rowan University (then Glassboro State College), where he met his wife Jean. He began his career as a reporter for McKnight Publications from 1980 to 1986.


 * Jean and Ric Edelman founded the Edelman Nursing Career Development Center in partnership with Inova Health System in 2001, and donated $1 million to the program in 2008. The Edelmans donated $1 million to Rowan University towards the Edelman Planetarium on campus in 2002. In October 2016, the Edelmans donated $25 million to the Edelman Fossil Park at Rowan University. Rowan university also named Edelman a "Distinguished Lecturer". The Edelmans donated another $10 million to Rowan University's endowment in 2019, earmarked for tuition aid for students. Rowan University renamed its creative arts school the Ric Edelman College of Communications & Creative Arts in February 2020.


 * In January 2020, Ric and Jean Edelman pledged $1 million towards the production of a documentary about Alzheimer's disease research. During the early stages of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the couple made a donation to cover the cost of flying N95 masks to New Jersey to be distributed to area hospitals.

==Personal life==

Edelman grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He majored in communications at Rowan University (then Glassboro State College), where he met his wife Jean. He began his career as a reporter for McKnight Publications from 1980 to 1986.

Jean and Ric Edelman founded the Edelman Nursing Career Development Center in partnership with Inova Health System in 2001, and donated $1 million to the program in 2008. The Edelmans donated $1 million to Rowan University towards the Edelman Planetarium on campus in 2002. In October 2016, the Edelmans donated $25 million to the Edelman Fossil Park at Rowan University. Rowan university also named Edelman a "Distinguished Lecturer". The Edelmans donated another $10 million to Rowan University's endowment in 2019, earmarked for tuition aid for students. Rowan University renamed its creative arts school the Ric Edelman College of Communications & Creative Arts in February 2020.

In January 2020, Ric and Jean Edelman pledged $1 million towards the production of a documentary about Alzheimer's disease research. During the early stages of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the couple made a donation to cover the cost of flying N95 masks to New Jersey to be distributed to area hospitals.