David Aston is an award-winning freelance financial journalist, focusing on retirement, personal finance, and investments. He currently writes a regular column for the Toronto Star, and has also written for the Globe and Mail, Morningstar.ca, and MoneySense.ca. He first established his reputation for writing about retirement finances as author of the popular 'Retirement' feature for MoneySense Magazine from 2008 to 2016.

His writing has been recognized six times with awards or honourable mentions by the Portfolio Management Association of Canada annual Award for Excellence in Investment Journalism. In 2014, he was named Journalist of the Year by CFA Society Toronto's Financial Journalism Awards, and was a finalist for the 2013 award. His journalism career follows a 20-year career in management consulting, corporate operations, and corporate financial planning. He holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a Chartered Professional Accountant. He has an MBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University and an MA in Economics from the University of Toronto.