Business journalist Darla Mercado has been hired by CNBC to cover personal finance.
She starts July 5.
For the past year, Mercado has been working at the Pension Resource Institute, an ERISA compliance consulting firm that works with registered investment advisory firms and broker-dealers.
Before that, she was a reporter for Investment News, where she covered retirement issues for nine years. She started at Investment News as an intern in 2006.
Prior to working at Investment News, she was an intern at Supermarket News and the Bronx Times. Mercado, a Bronx native, obtained her bachelor’s in English at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and her master’s in journalism at New York University. She is currently studying for her CFP.
