Carl Sullivan has been a Flywheel Publishing contributor since 2020, focusing mostly on personal finance, investing and technology. He started his journalism career covering mutual funds, banking and financial regulation in Washington.Carl is a contributing editor at Financial Advisor Magazine and previously served as managing editor at Financial Planning Magazine. He is a long-time manager of editorial teams covering a variety of topics including news, business and politics. He’s currently the North America Managing Editor for Flipboard and worked previously for Microsoft News and Newsweek.Carl loves exploring the world and lived in India for several years. Today, he resides in New York City’s Queens borough, where you can hear hundreds of different languages just by riding the subway.
Carl Sullivan covers personal finance and retirement for 24/7 Wall St. He reports on industry trends for investment professionals for Financial Advisor Magazine.
| M.S. Journalism, Northwestern University | 1993 |
| Microsoft News · Editor | 2010-2019 |
| Newsweek · Editor | 2004-2010 |
Thought-provoking ideas about retirement. Live rich instead of dying rich.
Insights on how we think about money and make the choices we do.
A single late-December decision wiped out nearly ten thousand dollars in health insurance subsidies for one early retiree, and the professional who recommended it never saw the bill coming.
Carl Sullivan Retiring at 61 with $1.6 million sounds comfortable until taxes, health insurance, and sequence-of-returns risk hit the same portfolio simultaneously. The math on what you can actually spend before Social Security arrives…
Carl Sullivan A single afternoon of routine portfolio maintenance triggered a Medicare bill neither spouse saw coming, and the IRS sent no warning before it arrived two years later.
Carl Sullivan