June: National Homeownership Month
June is National Homeownership Month, an ideal time to reflect on the potential opportunities, challenges, and strategies for buying, maintaining, and retaining a home. [...]
Covid 19’s Disproportionate Impact on the Financial Health of Women
Throughout the course of the pandemic in 2020, women lost a million more jobs than men, causing them to experience the setback of not [...]
Headline Surprises To the Upside With Some Good News In The Details
Headline Inflation Jumps, Core Inflation Cools Headline inflation in May rose 8.6% from a year ago, accelerating from April’s 8.3% growth rate. The Consumer [...]
Consumer Confidence Boosted by Excess Savings Amounts
According to research statistics from Fortune.com, consumers right now have an extra $2.5 trillion, collectively. While this sounds like a good thing, it could [...]
Risk and Your Retirement Savings Plan
By investing for retirement, you're helping to manage one of the most critically important financial risks: the chance that you will outlive your money. [...]
All About RMDs
After decades of hard work and saving money away into tax-advantaged retirement accounts, people entering their 70s now have to flip the script. Why? [...]
36,000 Reasons to Be Thankful
The Dow Jones Industrial Average started trading more than 125 years ago and yesterday it closed above 36,000 for the first time ever. Along [...]
The Importance of Understanding Your Credit Score
Understanding the value of your credit score is an important first step to improving your financial health. Ask anyone who has ever applied for [...]
How to Build Your Own Retirement Plan
Retirement plans for self-employed people were formerly referred to as “Keogh plans” after the law that first allowed unincorporated businesses to sponsor retirement plans. [...]
Making Sense of HSAs and FSAs
Healthcare can be expensive, right? No matter whether yours is bronze, gold, or even platinum, it's pricey. And that's not to mention out-of-pocket medical [...]