Myles Ma, CPFC

Senior Reporter

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Expertise

Health insurance, life insurance, personal finance, credit scores, economics

Education

The College of New Jersey (BA, Journalism); Wharton Seminar for Business Journalists; Fincert

Featured in

The Washington Post, PBS, CNBC, USA Today, HuffPost, Salon, CBS News, Inc. Magazine, MarketWatch

About

Myles Ma, CPFC, is a certified personal finance counselor and a former senior reporter at Policygenius, where he covered insurance and personal finance. Previously, he was an editor and reporter for Credit.com, as well as a reporter for the Star-Ledger. As a journalist, his work has also appeared in USA Today, HuffPost, Salon, CBS News, Inc. Magazine, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As a financial expert, his advice has been featured in The Washington Post, PBS, CNBC, and elsewhere.

Experience highlights

  • At Policygenius, Myles wrote most of our insurance and financial news coverage, and conducts our annual health insurance literacy survey.

  • As our resident health insurance expert, Myles has been featured on PBS’s health insurance coverage, The Washington Post’s “Color of Money” series, and elsewhere.

  • Previously, as an editor and reporter at Credit.com, Myles covered credit scores, budgeting, identity theft, and other personal finance topics.

  • Before that, Myles cut his teeth as a journalist at the Star-Ledger, Patch, Jersey Journal, The Press of Atlantic City, and as the editor-in-chief of The Signal, the newspaper of The College of New Jersey.

In the press

Past work

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Want to interview a Policygenius expert?

Journalist on a deadline? Our press team can connect you with our experts to discuss insurance, personal finance, and more. They’re also pretty friendly.

press@policygenius.com

Policygenius content follows strict guidelines for editorial accuracy and integrity. Learn about our editorial standards and how we make money.

Pro tip

Myles Ma, CPFC

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A lot of financial advice pushes you to be like Spock, but your emotions, dreams, and desires should absolutely guide your financial plan. But once you make the plan, then you need to be like Spock in sticking to it, even when times seem tough.

Selected stories from Myles

Gen Z is 65% less likely than Boomers to turn to financial professionals for advice

The 2024 Policygenius Financial Planning Survey found stark differences in where different groups of Americans turn when they need money advice.

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Millennials & Gen Zers are as likely to own cryptocurrency as they are real estate

Younger Americans are also more likely to try viral financial “hacks” and turn to social media for financial advice.

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46% of Americans expect to pass on debt to their loved ones when they die

The Policygenius 2024 Financial Planning Survey found wealthier Americans are most likely to expect their debts to outlive them.

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