The first of the year can be overwhelming for many people. Even with the best of intentions, people overspend and are left with credit card bills to pay off. We go into the season confident we can...
A couple of weeks ago, I suggested 14 possible financial New Year’s resolutions for 2014. Of course, the problem with New Year’s resolutions isn’t making them. It’s following through. One study...
While December is about accumulation, January is the month of fresh starts. By now the holiday gifts have been unwrapped, the bathing suits returned to post-vacation hibernation and the uneaten ham...
It’s that wonderful time of year again – January. We have enjoyed a slew of holiday celebrations and a million reasons to eat poorly and not exercise. It’s no wonder that most of us make a New Year...
Do you have any financial resolutions for New Year’s this year? Despite evidence of declining financial wellness, a recent survey showed that only 16% of Americans intend to include financial...
If you were to design a retirement program from scratch, you probably wouldn’t create what we have now. The problems with the 401(k), IRA, Social Security “system” — or hodgepodge, if you prefer —...
Target Says 40 Million Credit, Debit Cards May Have Been Compromised in Security Breach Target said that credit and debit card account information for 40 million of its customers may have been stolen...
Senators Sherrod Brown (D.-Ohio) and Patrick J. Toomey (R.-Pa.) just held the first of a series of hearings asking experts how to improve retirement security, and their prescriptions are to expand...
“I will never retire.” “I will work until I die.” These are statements I hear often from many of my 50-year-old clients—and frankly, from some of my closest friends, too. Baby boomers lack...
Many of the travelers of today take the tourism benefits of credit cards into account when they have to choose between them. Thus the number of points they earn via purchases on these special credit...