She publishes occasional reports for investors, including "Frac Attack: Risks, Hype, and Financial Reality of Hydraulic Fracturing in the Shale Plays", co-published July 8, 2010 with energy investment bank Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. Born in Asheville, N.C., Davis received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and received a master's degree, with honors, in print journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
From 2000 to 2001, she held an investigative/special projects post examining financial and health-care companies' pursuit of the elder-consumer market, revealing abuses in the long-term care insurance field and fraud in the use of Medicaid annuities.
Davis is the recipient of a 2007 Gerald Loeb Award in Deadline Writing[2] for her page-one account of how a 32-year-old trader's risky natural-gas bets triggered more than $6 billion in losses at high-flying hedge fund Amaranth Advisors, the day after its troubles first hit the markets.
She won a 2005 "Business Journalist of the Year Award" from the World Leadership Forum in London, in the mergers category, for her story about how a UBS investment banker carved out a rich niche by raising money for health-care companies even as investors fared poorly.
She contributed two parts to the paper's "Open Secrets" series, exposing conflicts of interest in the securities industry, that won the 2005 Business Award from the New York Press Club.