Melissa Phipps

  • Covered business, personal finance, and charitable giving for many consumer and trade magazines and websites, including Worth, The American Lawyer, Robb Report; Inc., Institutional Investor, iVillage.com, Today.com, Barnard, Budget Living, Bust, GeneralAssembly, Glamour, Financial Advisor, Financial Planning, and Bank Investment Marketing. 
  • Worked on custom publications for Principal Financial, MetLife, Chrysler, Jeep, Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab, and Citigroup Wealth Management.
  • Senior writer for Worth Magazine, creating the popular annual list and cover article, The 250 Best Financial Advisors.

Experience

Melissa Phipps is a former writer for The Balance who specializes in issues of personal finance and retirement planning. She contributed content to the Balance for more than than three years. 

She served as managing editor for Digital Content Marketing with Farmer's Insurance.

Phipps has a BA degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley. 

Awards and Publications

About The Balance and Dotdash

The Balance makes personal finance easy to understand. It is home to experts who provide clear, practical advice on managing your money. Whether you’re looking to invest, buy a home, save for retirement, or achieve another financial goal, The Balance will answer your questions with straightforward personal financial advice.

The Balance is part of the Dotdash publishing family. For more than 20 years, Dotdash brands have been helping people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. We are one of the top-20 largest content publishers on the internet, according to comScore, and reach more than 30% of the U.S. population every month. Most recently, Dotdash was named Publisher of the year by Digiday, a leading industry publication.