Writer

  • 20+ years experience in digital and print media
  • Expert on personal loans and mortgages
  • Byline at Forbes, The New York Times, Business Insider, and The Washington Post

Experience

Liz Alterman is a New Jersey-based freelance writer and journalist. She has spent more than 20 years in digital and print media and has covered a range of personal finance topics. Early in her career, Alterman worked at Merrill Lynch and J.B. Hanauer & Co until going to Bloomberg as a commodities reporter, where she covered daily energy markets daily and contributed to the Bloomberg Oil Buyers' Guide and Bloomberg Natural Gas Report.  By 2010, she worked as a writer at Patch.com, covering municipal government, business, arts and, human interest stories as well as a CNBC special reports contributor. As a freelance writer, she's provided her expertise to Business Insider, Realtor.com, NJ Advance Media, CafeMom, and TheMuse.com.

Her byline has also been featured by Forbes, Medium, The New York Times, Fox News, MarketWatch, The Washington Post, Yahoo, CNBC, La Nación, and SFGate. Alterman is the author of, “Sad Sacked,” “He'll Be Waiting,” “The Perfect Neighborhood,” and “The House on Cold Creek Lane.”

Expertise

  • Personal loans
  • Credit
  • Mortgages
  • Insurance

Education

Alterman has a bachelor's in English from the University of Scranton.

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