Investment
  • 7 Tips for Buying Your First Home

    By Ellen Chang, MainStreet

    Buying your first home comes with equal doses of trepidation and elation with the knowledge that you are sinking your hard-earned money into a single dwelling, possibly for the next 30 years. Yet the...

  • IRAs: Everything You Need to Know for 2015

    By Sheryl Nance Nash, The Fiscal Times

    You’ve got less than two weeks left to take action on one of the few tax moves you can still make now to get a break on your 2014 taxes: put money into an Individual Retirement Account. Or if you’ve...

  • The car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone next to a taxi sign is seen in this photo illustration taken in Madrid on December 10, 2014.  REUTERS/Sergio Perez

    Is Your 401(k) Riding on Uber?

    By Hal Bundrick, MainStreet

    Your retirement security likely depends on that mysterious investment machine known as the 401(k). There are a lot of moving parts in that thing, and most of us have only a vague idea of how it works...

  • 		<p>Students in the Buenos Aires program stay with families in the upper-middle class neighborhood of Belgrano where the classrooms and student center are located. The program includes trips to Salta and Jujuy, Calafate, Patagonia, Rio de Janeiro, Penins

    It Just Got Even Cheaper to Travel Overseas

    The strong dollar has been a boon to Americans traveling abroad as their money has stretched further. Now international travel is getting even cheaper for Americans: Fewer credit cards are imposing...

  • 5 Tips for Lowering Your 2015 Taxes

    By Sterling Raskie, AdviceIQ

    With 2014 well over and the spring of 2015 looming, you may find yourself gathering all of last year’s tax information and getting ready to file your income taxes. Maybe you expect a refund or maybe...