Tag: Personal Finance
Should You Manage Your Own Money, or Hire an Adviser?
Do you really need a financial adviser? That depends on whom you ask. Most of the nation's roughly 223,400 financial advisers will tell you you're...
Retirement—Part III—Debt
by Ken Vincent, Featured Contributor
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM has long said that it is best to work off other peoples money. Developers have done it. Businesses...
What Do You Need To Retire?
by Ken Vincent, Featured Contributor
OKAY, SO YOU HAVE reached the age of change. The kids are out of college, and hopefully out of your...
6 Steps to Spring Cleaning your Finances
You probably have to give up time you'd far rather be spending outside, where it's finally sunny. Yet there are few things better than...
One-Sentence Financial Rules
There are 56,956 personal finance books on Amazon.com. In aggregate, they contain more than 3 billion words. This seems absurd, because 99% of personal...
Typical Boomer Retirement Modest Compared to Parents
Typical Boomer Retirement Modest Compared to Parents’ The expectation that each successive generation will be better off financially than the prior is no longer valid....
Mortgages Will Become More Expensive
Homebuyers are somewhat suddenly fighting a strong tide. House prices and interest rates have been moving higher while incomes have barely budged—and now lenders...
Home Prices in 20 Cities Climb by Most in 7 Years
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose in October from a year ago by the most in more than seven years, signaling the real-estate rebound will keep bolstering household wealth in 2014. (Source: Bloomberg)
Self-Made Success: How I Left My Job to Start a Business
Seven months ago, I transitioned out of a corporate job in market research to work for myself full time. By the time I left...
Want to Be Happy With the Money You Have?
Rather than wishing you had more money, wouldn't it be cool if you could get more enjoyment out of the money you do have...
