'I can afford to be generous': How much should I give my stepdaughter for her wedding gift? I want to be fair.
Ultimately, your stepdaughter will have the answer. If she is too modest to tell you what she may want (so you can ascertain the cost), deposit $1,000, $5,000 or $50,000 in her account.
My 90-year-old parents' neighbor is friendly, nice and, I suspect, a predator. Am I wrong?
'He tells my parents to ignore me when I suggest that it's time to look into senior-living situations' ...
'He threw a book at me': Why IRMAA surcharges make seniors on Medicare so mad
Craig Cheney travels the country making people mad.
My brother is squatting in a house that my siblings will eventually inherit. How do we get him out?
My oldest brother passed and had no wife or children. My mom was his next of kin and received all his retirement savings and house. She does not want the house, so my siblings and I decided one of us ...
Will spending more boost your quality of life in retirement? Here's how annuities help that.
Not only do income annuities squeeze more monthly income out of your savings than any comparable product, but new research shows that when we are retired we are much more comfortable spending an extra ...
Private equity in 401(k) plans? 'Highly risky' for the average investor.
With the incoming Trump administration just weeks away from starting, private-equity firms are poised to lobby in Washington for broader access to retirement plans, including 401 (k) plans. But such ...
Can January really tell the stock market's future? Let us count the ways.
The U.S. stock market's January gyrations so far tell you next to nothing about how stocks are likely to perform for the rest of the year.
What happens if you don't pay a medical bill, now that medical debt may not hurt your credit score?
Medical debt ought to be a different case because credit-score blemishes connected to health scares and unforeseen medical mishaps aren't a good gauge of a person's ability to repay other loans, CFPB ...
'We've had two cars for 40 years': With congestion charges, insurance and gas prices - should we sell our second car? Or will we regret it?
We have two cars but the one with the best mileage is used every day. We also have a high-mileage truck, which is used to tow our travel trailer a few months a year. So I'm considering downsizing to ...
Take these steps to set financial goals for your family in 2025 - and reach them
Many couples are setting financially focused New Year's resolutions with hopeful optimism: save more, spend less, and finally get that debt under control. Yet research shows that 23% of them will quit ...
Tired market timers are just what stocks need to rally again
That's the conclusion of a contrarian analysis of current U.S. market-timer sentiment. Though the average market timer heading into December was irrationally exuberant, equity exposure was ...
Why this fund manager is fighting higher inflation with dividend stocks
Financials: The financials sector should benefit from reduced regulatory pressure and positive leverage to rising interest rates. Banks, for example, directly benefit from higher interest rates as ...