Beth Pinsker is a financial-planning columnist at MarketWatch. She has been a certified financial planner (CFP®) since 2018. Previously, she was a personal finance columnist and editor at Reuters, an editorial director at Fidelity and editor-in-chief ofWalletpop.com. Prior to covering personal finance, she was a film critic and entertainment business reporter, writing for Entertainment Weekly, The Dallas Morning News and many more publications. You can follow heron Twitter @bethpinsker.