Kim Clark
Kim Clark joined the Kiplinger investing team in August 2022. She is a veteran financial journalist who has previously covered business, economics, personal finance and investing at Fortune, U.S News & World Report, Money magazine, the Baltimore Sun and the Portland (ME) Press Herald. At Money, she was part of a team that won a Gerald Loeb award for coverage of elder finances. At the Baltimore Sun, she and a political reporter uncovered the city comptroller’s financial shenanigans, which included collecting the salary of a phantom employee.
Clark is also one of the nation’s most experienced journalists covering college financial aid. She spearheaded the creation of Money’s value-based college rankings, which is based on objective measures such as true affordability, debt loads and alumni earnings. She won the Education Writers Association's top magazine investigative prize for a story on insurance agents who used false claims about college financial aid to sell policies. Just before joining Kiplinger, she was the deputy director of the Education Writers Association, leading the training of the nation’s higher education journalists, and presenting at events such as SXSW EDU, Investigative Reporters & Editors conferences, and many higher education organization convenings.
She holds a B.A. with honors from Brown University and a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Long before joining the Kiplinger staff, she won a Kiplinger fellowship, a six-month post-graduate fellowship in new media at The Ohio State University. Her project, Financialaidletter.com, was the first site to publicly post colleges’ financial aid notifications, documenting how misleading some colleges’ communications are about loans and costs.
She is also a prize-winning gardener. In her spare time, she picks up litter.
Latest articles by Kim Clark
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Are You Missing Out On These Investing Payouts?
More companies are paying out special dividends this year. Here's what that means.
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How to Invest in AI
Investors wanting to know how to invest in AI should consider these companies that stand to benefit from the boom.
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Spotlight on a Global Growth Fund
The ability to invest overseas is a plus in today's market, and this global growth fund is one of the best ways to do it.
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Why Luxury Stocks are Worth Investing In
stocks Here's how to cash in on luxury stocks whose businesses cater to big spenders.
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Investing Jargon, Explained
Understand investing jargon when you get to know what the most common terms, such a day trading and dividend yield, really mean.
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What I Learned From a Family Investing Competition
Get inspired by this family’s friendly investing competition. The stock market contest delivers financial basics, life lessons and a bit of fun.
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Vanguard Faces Competition and Criticism — Where Does It Go From Here?
Why Vanguard faces challenges from zero-cost competition and customer service complaints, and what it's doing about it.
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How True Are These Investing Cliches?
We examine how much faith you can put into these investing cliches.
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ETF Funds for Anti-ESG Investors
A new crop of anti-ESG ETF funds offers an alternative to investments that focus on environmental, social and corporate governance issues.
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'A Random Walk Down Wall Street' at 50
Interview 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street': 50 years on Burton Malkiel, author of the investing classic, remains a champion of index investing.
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How to Pick the Best Robo Advisor For You
Kiplinger's guide to the best robo advisors to fit your needs.
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Bogleheads Stay the Course
Bears and market volatility don’t scare these die-hard Vanguard investors.
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How Direct Indexing Could Work for You
Tax efficiency is the primary goal for many new direct indexing offerings, but they come with a lot of caveats.
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Stock Buybacks Are Here to Stay
A new tax on stock buybacks will barely dent a corporate buying spree. But be selective about investing in firms repurchasing shares.
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For Stocks, the Midterms May Not Matter. Here's Why That's A Good Thing.
The good news is, no matter who wins control of Congress, stocks typically enjoy a nice gain.
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5 Stocks Making the Most of Supply-Chain Issues
stocks These stocks stand to gain as businesses move operations closer to home and focus on productivity.
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How to Spend $1,000: Find Cheap (or Free) Online Courses
Smart Buying There's a huge array of skill-building online courses that can level up your career for under $1,000.
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How to Invest $1,000: Buy Small-Cap Stocks
Smart Buying Shares of smaller firms have been beaten down in this market slump. But history shows they can still outperform over time.
By Kim Clark Published
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