Erin Arvedlund - Class of 1988

A current resident of Philadelphia and Tufts University Alumna (B.A. Political Science, Economics), Arvedlund started her career writing for the Dow Jones News Service in New York. She has written for a number of outlets including TheStreet.com, one of the first online financial magazines, was a correspondent for the New York Times in Moscow for a few years, and worked in on Wall Street for a brief period in the hedge fund industry. Arvedlund’s interest in writing was sparked during her time at Archmere Academy, where her favorite subjects were literature and history and she wrote for the school’s literary magazine, Tapestry. Her book on Bernie Madoff was published in 2009.Erin Arvedlund ’88, journalist and author of Too Good To Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff

On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, Arvedlund visited Archmere Academy as a guest lecturer. Speaking about the article she wrote in Barron’s Magazine in 2001 which questioned the hedge fund and Madoff ’s practices, Erin said:

“The article came out in 2001, it was investigated and the case quickly died. Bernie had a lot of friends in the SEC and I think it was difficult at that time for the agency to believe that someone of that stature could do so much wrong. Years went by and nothing happened - I thought maybe I screwed up, maybe I was crazy thinking there was something going on here -until eight years later. I was watching TV when a headline came across the screen saying a guy named Bernie Madoff was arrested for a 65 million dollar Ponzi scheme. They finally got him”