Chuck Jaffe

Areas of Expertise: mutual funds, personal finance

Twitter Feed: @MKTWJaffe

Books: “Getting Started in Finding a Financial Advisor,” (John Wiley & Sons, 2010), “The Right Way to Hire Financial Help” (The MIT Press, 2001) and “Chuck Jaffe’s Lifetime Guide to Mutual Funds” (Perseus Books, 2000).

Biography:
Chuck Jaffe is the host of “MoneyLife,” a weekday radio show/podcast.

He was a senior columnist with MarketWatch for 14 years until January 2017. Through syndication in newspapers, his Your Funds column was the most widely read feature on mutual fund investing in America.Throughout his career, Jaffe has won a number of awards for business journalism. In 2009, Chuck was named to MutualFundWire’s list of the 40 Most Influential People in Fund Distribution, the only journalist to make the list.

Jaffe has been the host of two different radio shows, and hosted two weekly podcasts for MarketWatch. In addition, Jaffe has been a frequent guest on CNBC, Nightly Business Report, Fox Business News, National Public Radio and more.

Prior to joining MarketWatch, Jaffe spent nine years as personal finance and mutual funds columnist at The Boston Globe. He moved to Boston after six years as business editor and columnist at The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His business journalism career includes Florida stops at the St. Petersburg Times and the Bradenton Herald.