Articles Of Interest

The Rules of Retirement for Women Studies show that most women don't plan for retirement -- and ultimately will pay for it down the road.
After Death, Getting Your Heirs to Do Your Bidding Expiring gift- and estate-tax breaks make now a good time to set up an irrevocable trust. Here's what to do.
The Impact of Mentors The author discusses valuable lessons learned from a mentor that may be applied to business management.
Long-Term Care and Couples: Who Pays? Medicaid is tightening up its restrictions for families hoping to use it to help pay long-term-care costs. But other rules can come into play.
How to Save More for Retirement by Spending Less Find out some tricks to help us avoid the temptations that may compromise our retirement and other goals.
How Investing Is Like Cooking Like a good recipe, a good portfolio is all about what you put in it. Here are some of the key ingredients.
4 Tips For a Healthy, Happy Retirement How can retirees improve their health and minimize costs and thus maximize their happiness in retirement? One expert shares some tips.
Predicting Elections With The Economy: More Art Than Science When it comes to presidential elections, is it really the economy that matters? Things usually aren't so simple as this article explores.
Will Peer Pressure Make Americans Save More? Improving one's financial habits may not top everybody's list of New Year's resolutions, but recent studies suggest that some tactics people use to follow through on their intentions -- especially relying on different types of peer pressure -- can also help them with their money habits. The only problem: They can also backfire.
A To-Do List for the Surviving Spouse This checklist can help widows and widowers figure out which tasks to address early on and which ones can wait.
5 Ways For The Sandwich Generation To Help Their Kids Baby boomers are often "sandwiched" between the needs of aging parents and growing children. Here are five ways to help the kids.
4 Ways For The Sandwich Generation To Help Their Parents Baby Boomers are often sandwiched between having to support their aging parents and their young-adult children. Here are four ways to ease the burden of supporting your elderly parents.
When You Should Buy a House—or Not Traditionally, the decision to buy a home was a relatively straightforward one: You made the purchase as soon as you could afford it. Buyers expected to spend about one-third of their pre-tax income on housing costs. But that easy formula no longer applies.
Why You Should Monitor Your Elderly Parents' Mail Scams aren't the only thing to watch for. Pleas for cash from legitimate organizations can be just as dangerous to your parents' bank account.
Teaching Savings to Kids in Schools What was once called thrift education is making a comeback as financial literacy. That's good news in hard times.


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