Karen Damato is the content specialist at a major law firm in New York, after a long career as a personal finance journalist. She was an assistant managing editor of Time Inc.’s Money brand and, before that, spent more than 30 years as a writer and editor at The Wall Street Journal. Her roles at the Journal included “Ask Encore” columnist, news editor overseeing the monthly Investing in Funds & ETFs reports, and Wealth Editor. She has attended three Bogleheads conferences, including Diehards IV in Denver in 2004 and, most recently, the 2016 conference.