AHN x J.P. Morgan: Your Roadmap to College: What It Costs, How Aid Works, and How to Invest for Success
College won’t wait—get a smarter 529 plan in 45 minutes. Paying for college is a big goal.
Join Asian Hustle Network and Tricia Scarlata—Executive Director and Head of 529 Education Savings at J.P. Morgan Asset Management—as she shares practical, step‑by‑step ways families use 529 plans to save smarter and stay flexible. Tricia’s guidance has been featured on Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, and in the Wall Street Journal. In under an hour, you’ll learn what to do first, what to avoid, and how to turn uncertainty into an action plan by using J.P. Morgan’s award-winning 2026 College Planning Essentials to help you:
Estimate tuition costs;
Understand realities of financial aid; and
Discover how a 529 plan’s tax advantages and flexibility can help you save more and borrow less.
About the Speaker
Tricia Scarlata, executive director, is Head of Education Savings for J.P. Morgan Asset Management. She is an advocate for educating families and their financial professionals on the importance of investing for college, and she leads the firm’s 529 plan business strategy, product and distribution efforts across client relationships.
Tricia offers over 30 years of investment industry experience, and has appeared on television, radio and print media including Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg TV, Asset TV, Nasdaq TV, Kiplinger, Wall Street Journal. USA Today, Morningstar and Investment News. Before being appointed Head of Education Savings, Tricia spent eight years leading the overall integrated marketing strategy for the education savings business. She partnered with sales, marketing, service, investments and public relations to gain alignment and ensure the 529 marketing strategy and program is continuously on the radar and promoted internally and externally. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2014, she spent over 12 years as a marketing consultant for college savings plans, retirement plans and separately managed accounts at Oppenheimer Funds, Bernstein Investment Management, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. She started her financial services career in 1996 at PaineWebber as an internal sales consultant for the Managed Account Services business, eventually managing a group of 25 internal sales consultants nationally.
Tricia holds a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Fordham University. She is Series 7 and 63 licensed and resides in Garden City, NY with her husband and two children.
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