Personal finance columnist Jaffe to end syndication, return to Marketwatch.com

Chuck Jaffe (PRNewsfoto/RagingBull.com)

Personal finance columnist Chuck Jaffe is returning to Marketwatch.com to write a weekly column.

He will be on a contract and not a full-time staffer. He was a staff columnist for Marketwatch from 2003 to 2017.

“I’m much more going to be about money and markets and less ‘do this with your portfolio,'” said Jaffe in an interview.

Jaffe is a syndicated financial columnist and the host of the “Money Life with Chuck Jaffe ” podcast/radio show. Before Marketwatch, he spent a decade as personal finance and mutual funds columnist at The Boston Globe.

His syndicated column, which started in June 1994, will end as a result of returning to Marketwatch. A number of publications have been with him for decades. Jaffe recently received an email from a Seattle reader who noted that he was introduced to Jaffe’s work by his father when he was in high school and now that he is in his 30s and having his first child, he wanted to follow my suggestions of how to gift stock for children.

“It’s incredibly gratifying and rewarding to have people tell me stories like that,” said Jaffe.

He is a past president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and is the author of three personal finance books.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.