Tobias Salinger

Tobias Salinger is Financial Planning’s chief correspondent, with nearly a decade of experience covering wealth management, regulation and the business of financial advice. He specializes in investigations and enterprise reporting on advisory firm strategy, regulation, conflicts of interest, and diversity and equality across the industry. 

Tobias has been recognized for his investigations and original reporting on the conflicts of interest that affect wealth management firms, as well as systemic racism in finance, winning more than a dozen honors, including the Jesse H. Neal, Azbees, SABEW Best in Business and Folio Eddie awards.

His award-winning coverage includes:

• Building Black Wealth in St. Louis
• The wealth management industry’s $1T conflict of interest
• A black eye for FINRA? Brokers with checkered histories cast doubt on enforcement efforts
• Access denied: Systemic racism in financial services
• From sealed transcripts, the inside saga of LPL Financial’s largest termination ever

Before Financial Planning, Tobias reported for the New York Daily News, Commercial Observer and City Limits. He holds a master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (2013) and is an alumnus of the Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, an international program focused on how the lessons of history inform professional ethics today in journalism and many other fields.

Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, now based in Chicago, Tobias is an avid softball player, a novice bird watcher and reader of contemporary fiction.

Connect with Tobias on LinkedIn or reach him at: tobias.salinger@arizent.com.