Elizabeth Aldrich

With a lifelong passion for creative writing and an analytical bent, Elizabeth Aldrich has spent the last decade building a career in financial journalism. After graduating college, she spent several years working in admissions and financial aid while taking creative writing classes at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Elizabeth moved overseas and began her career as a journalist in 2015, freelancing for publications like Business Insider, The Motley Fool, Bankrate, Investopedia, LendingTree, Student Loan Hero, ValuePenguin, USA Today, Credit Karma, NASDAQ and Yahoo! Finance. She spent five years reporting on topics like consumer finance, credit cards, banking, economics, investing, travel hacking and loans while traveling the world as a digital nomad. During this time, she also volunteered on several farms throughout Central America and Europe, learned Spanish and worked on the side as a content marketing consultant for small businesses in the ecotourism space.

In 2020, Elizabeth moved back to her hometown of Portland, Oregon and took a full-time position as managing editor and content lead for an investing startup. She was in charge of building the startup’s content arm from the ground up, developing content strategy, managing its content calendar and team of writers, producing studies, and assigning and editing articles. During her first year, Elizabeth hired and managed a team of seven writers and interns, built out a library of content containing hundreds of articles, studies, podcasts and videos, achieved a consistent monthly growth rate of 35% in SEO traffic, and landed features in a handful of national publications. Elizabeth is a former banking writer at Forbes Advisor.

Expertise

• Banking
• Credit cards
• Economics
• Investing
• Travel

Achievements

• Eight years of experience in financial journalism—five as a writer and three as a content manager and/or editor
• Covers consumer finance, credit cards, banking, economics, investing, travel hacking and loans
• Work published in Business Insider, The Motley Fool, Bankrate, Investopedia, LendingTree, Student Loan Hero, ValuePenguin, USA Today, Credit Karma, NASDAQ, Yahoo! Finance and more

Other Publications

• What a K-shaped recovery means, and how it highlights a nation’s economic inequalities
• Best Online Banks
• The 5 Most Comfortable Airlines for Flying Economy
• What is a stock market correction? How to make sense of sudden drops in the market
• Here’s the Average Credit Card Approval Rate by Credit Score
• Travel Insurance Benefits for the Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card
• The Best Rewards Credit Cards for Paying Taxes in 2023
• Money mistakes you should never make after 60
• Both Twin Cities Make List of Top 10 Most Affordable Cities
• Investing in a Recession: A Look at the Top Performing Asset Classes During Market Crashes From 2018-2022

Education

University of Oregon
B.S. in economics with an emphasis on international and development economics, B.A. in philosophy with an emphasis on political philosophy, minor in communications, graduated with honors