Hilary Kramer A Financial Powerhouse Finds Joy in her Jersey Roots BY CATHY PADILLA | PHOTOS JESUS BAEZ
With 30 years of experience on Wall Street as an investment analyst and portfolio manager, Hilary Kramer has been described by Financial Times as “a one-woman financial investment powerhouse”. A frequent guest commentator providing investment insight and economic analysis on CNBC, CBS, Fox News, and Bloomberg, her investment insights are often quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and Reuters. With her many successes as an analyst, investment banker, certified fraud examiner (CFE), and best-selling author one could imagine a life of ease and opulence, but hers is instead a story of happiness in the face of heartache. This Ranney School graduate has deep connections to her roots in Red Bank, and credits Holmdel with helping her both heal and find peace both as a child and now as she deals with the recent loss of her 9/11-hero husband Timothy Coyne. Having been given the middle name Joy, Hilary exudes both a sense of purpose and a love for life. Insightful, wildly successful, and a woman of strength, here’s our CM interview with Hilary Joy Kramer. CM: You have a great love for Holmdel… Hilary Kramer (HK): I was six years old when we arrived at the farmland of Holmdel…it was 1970. I came from a family that has lived for three generations in Red Bank, and suddenly I’m in Holmdel with cows grazing in the pastures and I’m selling vegetables at Englishtown Flea Market on Saturday mornings. Bruce Springsteen was our closest neighbor and didn’t seem to have air conditioning, or even screens over at his place, because there was often the faint rhythm of live jamming music coming from his farmhouse. During the late summer nights, I could hear the finales of bands finishing their performances at the then Garden State Arts Center.