Mallika Mitra
Contributing Editor
6years covering personal finance
3+ articles on LendingTree
Has written about personal finance for 10+ outlets
Specialties
Investing
Saving
Retirement
Debt
Financial planning
Education
Master of Arts, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
Bachelor of Arts, Kalamazoo College
Mallika Mitra is a freelance editor at LendingTree who edits articles on a variety of personal finance topics. She specializes in taking complex topics and making them digestible in order to help consumers make smart decisions with their wallets.
Her work has been featured in CNBC, Bloomberg News, Barron’s, Kiplinger, AARP, Bankrate, Consumer Reports, the Wall Street Journal’s Buy Side and more. She was previously the investing editor at Money, where she led investing coverage, wrote a weekly investing newsletter and covered a wide range of money-related topics, including debt, credit cards and credit scores.
Mallika also has experience covering the economy, businesses and the financial services industry as both a writer and editor. You can find more about Mallika at her website: www.mallikamitra.com.
Mallika’s thoughts on financial planning
The key to strong financial planning is being specific in your goals and aligning your actions with those goals. Simply ‘saving for retirement’ can seem like an overwhelming task, but saying you’re going to save 15% of your income this year for retirement, determining how much that means you have to save per month and slightly adjusting your spending to do so makes it seem more attainable."
