About Me

Beth Pinsker is a personal finance editor and writer. She has been a certified financial planner (CFP®) since 2018. 

Beth is currently a financial planning columnist at MarketWatch. She won a SABEW Best in Buiness award in 2023 for commentary for a series of columns about caring for her mother. She turned those into a book, "My Mother's Money: A Guide to Financial Caregiving" (Crown Currency, November 2025).

Beth was previously the launch Money Editor for Buy Side from WSJ, providing advice and service on anything having to do with how people handle their money.  Prior to the Journal, she was a personal finance columnist and editor at Reuters for eight years. She covered all aspects of financial planning and decision-making, such as retirement strategies, selecting employee benefits, and saving money. In 2018, she was part of a team that won a Front Page award for Live Online Video from the Newswomen's Club of New York. 

Beth worked at Fidelity during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, where she was an editorial director handling coverage of taxes and wealth strategies. 

She also was the editor of Walletpop.com, a personal finance website owned by AOL that launched in 2008 in the midst of the Great Recession and focused on frugality, budgeting and finding the best deals. She spent the first part of her career as a film critic and entertainment business reporter, writing for many publications, such as Entertainment Weekly, Variety and the New York Times. 

Beth has a B.A. in English from Harvard University. She is the mother of two humans and one dog, and lives in Brooklyn.