Browsing: Personal Finance

Americans are facing economic challenges on multiple fronts.U.S. consumer confidence fell to a four-month low in September, as people became more concerned about rising interest rates,…

Simplifying and streamlining our portfolios and the rest of our finances should be an estate planning priority as we age. I learned this firsthand when I…

Vin Walker, a 67-year-old retiree from Plymouth, Mass., has been trying this year to buy a second home in Naples, Fla., so that he and his…

Amid high inflation and rising interest rates, most Americans believe the economy is in bad shape, according to a poll from Quinnipiac University. In fact, 71%…

When Robert Merton, MIT finance professor and Economics Nobel laureate, speaks, we should listen. Fifty years ago, Merton, together with Fisher Black and Myron Scholes, developed…

If you have been following my posts on required minimum distributions from retirement accounts over the last few years, I have an important update to share…

Student loan payments are resuming, and time is running out. Millions of borrowers are only days or weeks away from having a student loan payment due…

What is Financial Health? Financial health refers to the state of one’s personal monetary affairs. It encompasses an individual’s ability to meet financial commitments, feel secure…

With no one claiming the top prize in Monday night’s Powerball drawing, the jackpot has now climbed to $835 million, making it among the 10 highest…

People who are retired or close to retirement age should ideally be secure in their long-term financial stability. After all, they’ve put in the work to…