Meaghan Offerman

Associate Editor

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Ms. Offerman serves as the lead editor on special reports and is the main contact for articles contributed by members of the institutional investing industry.

Ms. Offerman (formerly Kilroy) first joined the publication in 2014 as a reporter for P&I Daily in Chicago, later picking up parts of the defined contribution and ESG beats. She left P&I in 2018 to move downstate with her husband and recently moved back to the Chicago area, where she is based.

Most recently, Ms. Offerman worked as a content strategist and editor-in-chief for Shores Communications and previously wrote for The West Roxbury and Roslindale Transcripts based in Needham, Mass.; The Kane County Chronicle in St. Charles, Ill.; and The Daily Free Press in Boston.

She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University.

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