Allison Schrager
Allison Schrager is an economist, writer, and an award winning Bloomberg Opinion Columnist covering economics. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Contributing Editor at City Journal, where her research focuses on public finance, pensions, tax policy, labor markets, and monetary policy. Schrager diversified her career by working in finance, policy, and media, writing about retirement and how to hedge risk in more unconventional situations. Previously, she was a journalist at Quartz, led retirement product innovation at Dimensional Fund Advisors, and consulted to international organizations, including the OECD and IMF.
Allison Schrager Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Opinion Columnist
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Senior Fellow
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Contributor
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Contributor
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Consultant
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Intern, FAD Division
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Intern
Academic History
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Ph.D., Economics
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M.A., Economics
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Co-Founder, LifeCycle Finance Partners
EARLY CAREER
At Quartz and Bloomberg Businessweek, she wrote regular columns on retirement and risk in more unusual places.
She was a Consultant at Dimensional, where she designed post-retirement investment and spend-down strategy for individual pension accounts.
She also served as a Senior Associate at Integrated Finance and a Contributor at The Economic Times, where she contributed on free exchange.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Schrager has been a regular contributor to The Economist, Reuters, and Bloomberg Businessweek.
Her writing has also appeared in Playboy, Wired, National Review, Foreign Affairs, and City Journal.
She is the host of the podcast Risk Talking where she interviews leading economists, business journalists, and historians, exploring their work in an effort to understand what’s happening in the marketplace today.
She has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.