About Romana King​

Author | Content Strategist | Speaker
Personal Finance Geek | Real Estate Expert

Romana King is the woman behind RKHomeowner.

For more than two decades, she has worked as a financial journalist — covering everything from the 2008 global economic crisis, the American housing collapse to the original dot-com tech bubble burst to housing market trends across Canada and America.

As a seasoned personal finance writer, she has covered all aspects of investing and estate planning. She helped introduce and explain how exchange-traded funds (ETFs) would help make mutual funds obsolete, she helped integrate housing into the personal finance discussion and covered investing tactics and home insurance issues, all while speaking out about the need for universal financial literacy education in Canada and across North America.

Over the years, she has received a variety of awards, including:

She currently holds the position of Group Editor and personal finance expert at Finder Canada and was the former Director of Content at Zolo and Senior Editor and real estate expert at MoneySense.

As a personal finance and real estate expert, her work can be found in the Globe & Mail, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Toronto Star and Daily Hive, among other national and regional publications. Romana also appears on a variety of radio, TV and podcast shows, including Breakfast Television, CityNews, CBC, Global News, among others.

To further her own understanding of personal finance, Romana obtained her real estate license in both Ontario and British Columbia and completed the prerequisites for becoming a financial planner.

Romana continues to write guest posts for various North American sites and promotes other personal finance experts through guest posts on this site.




Winner of EFJ 2022 Book Award - House Poor No More: 9 Ways that Grow the Value of Your Home and Net Worth

House Poor No More: 9 Steps that Grow the Value of Your Home and Net Worth

Winner of the Excellence in Financial Journalism 2022 Book Award

Testimonials​


Romana was a delight to be professionally involved with. Her flow of creativity, objectivity and thoroughness connects her audience to the story with an in-depth point of view. She writes for the reader with great detail and integrity. Will keep reading her articles for some time!

Christopher O’Connor​
Business Development at RBC Dominion Securities ​

Romana is the hardest worker you will ever meet. She writes with skill, she interviews with passion and she edits with intense focus — all to get the publication out on time and on point. She was a huge help to me at AER when she was associate editor. Since then, other publications have benefited enormously from her skill-set. ​

Scot Blythe​
Writer/Editor/Blogger/Educator in Financial Services ​

Romana is possibly the hardest working person I know. Her dedication to a task is highly commendable. Her recent relaunch of Canadian Insurance as Top Broker provides ample evidence of her passion for publishing. ​

Steve Lamb​
Manager, Public Relations at Invesco Canada​