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Clare O’Hara
StaffGlobe Investor ReporterWealth Management Reporter
cohara@globeandmail.com

Area of Expertise

Wealth Management and Insurance Reporter

Clare O’Hara is an award-winning journalist. She covers wealth management and insurance as a reporter for The Globe and Mail's Report on Business.

Clare began her career as a research reporter at Investment Executive, a national newspaper for financial service industry professionals. Her coverage of Canada's biggest banks blocking the sale of independent investment funds prompted a regulatory investigation in 2022 and led to a Gold SABEW Canada Best in Business Award for Personal Finance and Investing.

She has also been awarded first place at the PMAC Awards for Excellence in Investment Journalism. In 2022, Clare, along with her colleagues, was nominated for a National Newspaper Award for revealing the scant progress from companies that had publicly pledged to improve the diversity of their workforces and combat systemic racism. She has an undergraduate degree in media information from University of Western Ontario and a journalism degree from the University of King’s College in Halifax.

21

Years in Journalism

11

Years at The Globe and Mail

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Media Information, Western University

Bachelor of Journalism, University of King’s College

Honours & Awards

SABEW Silver for Package, 2024: Windsor pop-up bureau with Jason Kirby, Ivan Semeniuk, Adam Radwanski and Andrew Willis

PMAC Award for Excellence in Investment Journalism, 2024: Pervasive sales culture at Canadian banks designed to push customers into high-fee products with Tim Shufelt

SABEW Gold for Personal Finance and Investing, 2023: “Short changed” with Tim Shufelt and Irene Galea

PMAC Award for Excellence in Investment Journalism, 2023: Bank Blocks (Series)

SABEW honourable mention for Personal Finance and Investing, 2022: “Banks block online sale of cash ETFs that compete with bank savings products”

SABEW Gold for Personal Finance and Investing, 2021: “Banks Halt Sales of Third-Party Mutual Funds”

SABEW honourable mention for Profile, 2021: “The Bay Street Whiz Kid Who Wasn’t: Searching for the Real Gary Ng” with Greg McArthur, Mark Rendell, and Tim Kiladze

National Newspaper Award nomination for Business, 2021: with Vanmala Subramaniam, James Bradshaw and Jaren Kerr, Globe for revealing little progress from companies that had publicly pledged to improve the diversity of their workforces and combat systemic racism

PMAC Award for Excellence in Investment Journalism, 2020: Investors continue to be abused: Anger builds over lack of reforms to early withdrawal on mutual funds

Professional affliations

Canadian Investment Funds Certificate

Languages spoken

English

Clare O’Hara abides by The Globe and Mail Editorial Code of Conduct

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