John Spence

Mr. Spence has been writing about exchange-traded funds, personal finance and financial markets for over a decade. He penned the ETF Investing column at MarketWatch.com for seven years and his work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and several other major newspapers.

Mr. Spence first began writing about ETFs in San Francisco in the late 1990s at IndexFunds.com and IndexUniverse.com, and has assisted in the production of a trio of books on investing in markets with ETFs, most recently Active Index Investing (Wiley, 2004).

Mr. Spence earned his undergraduate degree from Middlebury College in Vermont, and an MFA in Writing at University of San Francisco. He ...More currently lives outside Boston with his wife and son. Cooking and kayaking are among his favorite hobbies.