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Top 13 US Finance Influencers

Money content on US Instagram is crowded, but only a handful of accounts are run by real people who post about their own finances rather than sell a trading course.

This is a hand-checked group of individual creators: a fund founder, a labor economist, budgeting and FIRE accounts, and a CNBC anchor who writes about markets.

The shortlist stays small on purpose, because separating genuine money educators from signal-selling brands is exactly what makes the list worth trusting.

Denis GolubevDenis Golubev3 min readLast updated: 16 Jun 2026

The ranking

13 top influencers from 21,978 US finance profiles

We track 21,978 US finance creators on Instagram. The 13 individual creators shown here are ranked by follower reach, engagement, and audience quality, and their audiences engage about 1.9x more per post than a typical account of the same size and read as about 80% real on average.

13 / 22K
Influencers selected
2.2%
Avg engagement
80%
Avg real audience
Constantin Kogan
#1

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Constantin KoganMacro
463.6K
Followers
1.03%
Engagement rate
66.1K
Avg views

🔥 Founder & GP at @holisticapital 🧭Exploring markets, technology, and human behavior 🎙️ Host: Holistic Investment Podcast 🏗️ Build smart. Stay human.

Audience location
US45.0%
29.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Poor: high risk
Best for: Investor credibility campaigns.

Constantin Kogan is a fund founder and general partner who posts how he reads markets, technology, and behavior rather than stock tips. Best for investing platforms, fintech, and finance-education brands that need a credible working investor instead of a content-only account.

michael mezzatesta
#2

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michael mezzatestaMacro
291.7K
Followers
1.71%
Engagement rate
67.5K
Avg views

economics, climate, finance, culture ☿ founder @betterfuture.media // host @betterfuturepod 💌

Audience location
US53.0%
18.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Average: some noise
Best for: Economics and finance explainers.

Michael Mezzatesta connects economics, finance, and culture and runs his own media project, so his feed leans explanatory rather than promotional. Strong for fintech, education, and sustainability-minded brands that want clear, big-picture money content for a general audience.

Chloe Trades | Day Trader
#3

chloectradesChloe Trades | Day Trader

Chloe Trades | Day TraderMacro
255.9K
Followers
1.30%
Engagement rate
69.3K
Avg views

Day Trader, I trade options Trading book for beginners👇🏻

Audience location
US44.0%
20.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Average: some noise
Best for: Beginner-investing education.

Chloe Trades posts options and day-trading content aimed at beginners and points followers to a starter book rather than a paid signal group. A fit for brokerages, investing-education, and money-app brands that want an approachable teaching voice, with the usual care around financial disclosures.

Charan Dangeti
#4

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Charan DangetiMacro
236.7K
Followers
1.87%
Engagement rate
235.2K
Avg views

Stocks| Finance| More🤩 *Not Financial Advice* Email: Join the FREE discord server👇

Audience location
US36.0%
16.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Average: some noise
Best for: Stocks and personal-finance reach.

Charan Dangeti covers stocks and personal finance with a clear not-financial-advice framing and a free community. Best for investing platforms, money apps, and education brands that want a straightforward stock-and-saving creator with a real, engaged following.

Mikey Caloca
#5

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Mikey CalocaMacro
234.9K
Followers
1.36%
Engagement rate
54.0K
Avg views

❤️ Just tryna be a responsible adult 🏠 Home Buying Journey: Day 129 💵 Saved: $121,960 🎯 Goal: $200,000 🦥 Building @responsibleadult.official

Audience location
US80.0%
22.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Average: some noise
Best for: Relatable saving journeys.

Mikey Caloca documents a real home-buying savings goal in public, posting his running total toward a six-figure target. A strong fit for budgeting apps, banking, and first-home brands that want an honest, relatable money journey rather than expert posturing.

Jane 🦧
#6

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Jane 🦧Macro
156.3K
Followers
2.56%
Engagement rate
127.6K
Avg views

Lazy girl min-maxing my 20s so I can retire in my 30s 🧖‍♀️| nyc & toronto 💌

Audience location
US45.0%
19.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Average: some noise
Best for: Gen-Z FIRE content.

Jane frames her twenties as min-maxing toward early retirement, mixing money habits with a light lifestyle tone. Best for budgeting apps, investing platforms, and productivity brands that want to reach younger savers thinking about financial independence.

Mel
#7
137.8K
Followers
1.23%
Engagement rate
50.0K
Avg views

✌🏽Let’s become work optional 💵 financial independence⎢early retirement 💌 📍USA⎢links ⤵️

Audience location
US70.0%
18.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Average: some noise
Best for: Financial-independence audiences.

Mel posts about becoming work-optional through financial independence and early retirement to a US-based following. A clear match for FIRE-friendly brokerages, savings apps, and money-education brands that want an audience actively planning long-term.

Andrew Ross Sorkin
#8

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Andrew Ross SorkinMacro
116.0K
Followers
1.46%
Engagement rate
74.2K
Avg views

📕Author, 🆕 “1929” + Too Big To Fail 🗞@NYTimes Columnist/Editor 📺@CNBC Anchor 📬Founder, DealBook 🎬Co-Creator, BILLIONS @Showtime 😘Proud Dad

Audience location
US70.0%
24.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Average: some noise
Best for: Authority finance partnerships.

Andrew Ross Sorkin is a CNBC anchor, New York Times columnist, and finance author whose audience expects serious markets coverage. Best for institutional, fintech, and media brands that need genuine authority and recognition rather than a creator-led feed.

Thomas Skinner
#9

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Thomas SkinnerMacro
114.5K
Followers
1.09%
Engagement rate
74.8K
Avg views

@columbia 🎓 Sharing an Ivy League finance education for free

Audience location
US40.0%
13.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Good: clean audience
Best for: Free finance education.

Thomas Skinner shares a free finance education built around an Ivy League background, and his audience reads as about 87% real, among the cleanest on this list. Strong for education platforms and brokerages that want a teaching-first creator with a high-trust following.

KB💕
#10

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KB💕Macro
112.4K
Followers
2.14%
Engagement rate
37.1K
Avg views

finance| fashion| career| beauty 💅🏾‘boss mom building wealth’ 📩 📍Baltimore| NYC ⤵️ Start Budgeting TikTok 131k+ YouTube 55k+

Audience location
US94.0%
17.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Average: some noise
Best for: Budgeting and working-parent reach.

KB frames money alongside career and wealth-building as a budgeting creator for working parents, with cross-platform reach on TikTok and YouTube. A fit for budgeting apps, banking, and family-finance brands that want a practical, wealth-building angle.

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Spencer Hakimian
#11

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Spencer HakimianMid
93.9K
Followers
8.80%
Engagement rate
340.0K
Avg views

Founder of Tolou Capital Management. Daily Podcast on YouTube. Daily Shorts on Instagram.

Audience location
US81.0%
27.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Poor: high risk
Best for: Markets-commentary credibility.

Spencer Hakimian founded a capital management firm and posts a daily markets podcast and shorts, engaging at about 8.8%, the highest on this list. Best for investing platforms and finance-media brands that want an active fund manager and strong daily engagement.

Drew Lee
#12

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Drew LeeMid
88.0K
Followers
1.09%
Engagement rate
55.3K
Avg views

Cincinnati, OH Personal Finance Expert $850K Net Worth at 35

Audience location
US86.0%
21.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Average: some noise
Best for: Net-worth and wealth building.

Drew Lee posts as a personal-finance creator built around a real net-worth milestone, teaching saving and wealth-building from Cincinnati. A fit for budgeting apps, investing platforms, and money-education brands that want a concrete, goal-led personal-finance voice.

Kathryn Anne Edwards
#13

keds_economistKathryn Anne Edwards

Kathryn Anne EdwardsMid
80.2K
Followers
3.17%
Engagement rate
46.0K
Avg views

Labor economist, opinion writer, policy consultant. Go to link in bio for writing, podcast, and ways to support my work.

Audience location
US92.0%
15.0%
fake followers / suspicious accounts
Average: some noise
Best for: Policy and economics commentary.

Kathryn Anne Edwards is a labor economist and opinion writer who frames money through policy and work, with about 85% real audience. Best for think-tank, education, and fintech brands that want credible economics commentary rather than market hype.

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Brand fit

Best brand fits for US finance influencers

Finance creators fit a tighter, more regulated band of categories than general lifestyle accounts. Read these as inferred fits from bios and content, not past deals, and note that financial promotions carry their own disclosure rules.

Budgeting, banking and money apps
Best fit

The core fit. Budgeting and net-worth creators here already talk through saving, banking, and tracking, so money apps and neobanks place natively.

Personal-finance education and courses
Strong

Educators on stocks, saving, and FIRE lend credibility to financial-literacy products, books, and structured courses.

Investing platforms and brokerages
Strong

Working investors and stock creators reach an audience comfortable with brokerages and ETFs; a regulated fit that needs proper disclosure.

Business software, productivity and career tools
Good

Several creators frame money alongside work and productivity, making SaaS, planning, and career tools an easy match.

Tax, insurance and credit services
Niche

Money-journey and wealth creators reach audiences actively making tax, insurance, and credit decisions, with care around compliance.

Several of these accounts are run by working finance professionals posting under their own name, including a fund founder and general partner, a capital management founder, a labor economist, and a CNBC anchor and finance author, which gives a real part of this list genuine authority rather than recycled stock tips.

The rest are personal-finance educators and money-journey creators who teach budgeting, saving, stocks, and financial independence, with several documenting their own goals in public. Many describe books, podcasts, newsletters, or free communities in their bios, a signal that their audiences come to learn rather than chase quick wins.

Our verdict

This shortlist is best used as a vetted starting point for finance-brand campaigns that need credibility, not just reach.

Start with the working investors and the economist when a campaign covers serious financial topics and authority matters most, the personal-finance educators when you want clear teaching for a general audience, and the money-journey creators when relatability and real engagement carry the message.

The 13 shown are a hand-checked preview of the 21,978 US finance creators we track on Instagram, deliberately kept to genuine individuals rather than trading-app brands or course-sellers. Across the national Instagram pool, 39% list a public email (Creator Economy Report 2026), so direct outreach at scale is realistic.

Open the full database to filter the rest by sub-topic, audience location, real-follower score, and verified contact.

Methodology

How we selected these influencers

How we picked this shortlist.

Eligibility: individual US personal-finance and investing creators on Instagram whose audience reads as meaningfully US-based. We kept real people, money educators, investors, and money coaches, and removed trading-app and fintech-product brands, signal-selling course businesses, crypto-promotion accounts, and finance-news and media pages. The topic auto-classifier and a manual spot-check together dropped those non-creator accounts before ranking, which is why this list is shorter than 25.

Data source

the live Click Analytic creator database, which tracks 21,978 US finance creators on Instagram.

Ranking signals

follower reach, engagement rate, and audience quality (the share of followers that read as real).

Filters

active accounts posting within the last 30 days, with a real-audience floor and engagement floor applied before ranking.

Scope: the 13 creators shown are a hand-checked preview. Every metric on this page describes that shortlist unless it is explicitly labelled as the full tracked slice or a Creator Economy Report benchmark.

Context benchmarks come from Click Analytic's Creator Economy Report 2026, a study of 23.6M creators (data: December 2025). This page describes who creators are and what they post; it is not financial advice. Updated monthly.

The figures above are a snapshot pulled on June 16, 2026, not a live feed.

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The same live data we used to rank US finance creators, followers, engagement, audience quality and more across 400M+ creators, is available programmatically through the Click Analytic Influencer Marketing API.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything brands ask before shortlisting US finance creators.

How were these US finance influencers chosen and ranked?

We pulled US finance creators on Instagram from Click Analytic's database, kept individual people, money educators, and investors, removed trading-app brands, signal-selling courses, crypto-promotion accounts, and finance-news pages, then ranked the rest on follower reach, engagement rate, and audience quality. The 13 shown are a hand-checked preview of 21,978 tracked US finance creators.

Why are only 13 finance creators on this list?

Finance is full of trading-course brands, signal groups, and aggregator pages, and we drop all of them. After removing every account that is not a genuine individual creator, 13 real US finance creators cleared the bar. We chose an honest, shorter list over padding it with course-sellers.

Is this list only Instagram finance accounts?

Yes. Every creator here is ranked on their Instagram presence and US-based audience. Several also post on YouTube, TikTok, or in newsletters, often with larger reach there, but the metrics on this page describe Instagram.

How do you measure whether a finance account's audience is real?

Each account gets an audience-quality score, the share of followers that read as genuine rather than bots or inactive accounts. Across the 13 shown, audiences read as about 80% real on average; nationally, only 39% of US Instagram creators clear a 75%-real-audience bar (Creator Economy Report 2026).

Which brands suit US finance influencers best?

Budgeting, banking, and money apps are the core fit, followed by financial education and courses, investing platforms and brokerages, business and productivity tools, and tax, insurance, and credit services. Working investors suit credibility-led campaigns; money-journey creators suit relatable reach. These fits are inferred from bios and content, not past deals, and financial promotions carry their own disclosure rules. This page does not recommend any investment.

How do I find and contact the other US finance creators you track?

Open Click Analytic to search all 21,978 US finance creators on Instagram and filter by sub-topic, audience location, real-follower score, follower size, and verified contact email. Across the national pool, 39% list a public email (Creator Economy Report 2026), so outreach at scale is realistic.

Photos and figures reflect the data snapshot date and may differ from the current profiles.

Denis Golubev

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Denis Golubev

Marketer at Click Analytic, turning live data on 400M+ creators into rankings brands can actually act on.

Last updated 16 Jun 20263 min read

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