Rebecca Stropoli

Rebecca Stropoli is a writer and editor specializing in business, economics and personal finance content. She works on both consumer-facing and B2B content, including personal finance articles, articles on behavioral economics, trade publication content for the advisory industry, website copy for finance startups and white papers for large financial institutions.

Before striking out on her own, Rebecca worked for nearly a decade at Yahoo Finance. She began by helping to launch their personal finance platform and ended her time there as managing editor of the newsroom. In between, she covered the global financial crisis in real time, which was the best learning experience of her career. Previously, she worked on trade publications covering the direct marketing and television/cable industries.

Specialties

• Behavioral economics
• Investing content
• Personal finance

Achievements

• Won first place SABEW award in the economics category for 2021 Chicago Booth Review article: How the 1 percent’s savings buried the middle class in debt
• Received a SABEW honorable mention in the personal finance category for 2023 Chicago Booth Review article: Your Spending Habits Are All in Your Head

Education

• Bachelor of Arts, University of Florida

Rebecca’s thoughts on financial planning

“It can be difficult for people to stick to their preferred long-term investing plans when the news cycle is crazy and financial markets are extremely volatile. Sometimes those plans need to be reevaluated, but typically it’s best to try to tune out the noise of the daily ups and downs of the markets and stay on track with a strategy based on your own risk tolerance and timeline.”