How to Choose the Right Business Credit Card
Women entrepreneurs who have trouble raising capital for their ventures and managing the month-to-month cash flow often find business credit cards especially helpful. A business credit card provides you a credit line, and, if used prudently, can help your company navigate through periods of lopsided cash flow. Plus, it can provide you a cushion between […]
Why Women Manage Credit Cards Wisely
Women shop a lot: We make 85% of all consumer purchases, according to data from the research firms Yankelovich Monitor and Greenfield Online. All that shopping means we’re pulling out our credit cards often — and it turns out, perhaps thanks to all that practice, we really know what we’re doing. On average, women carry […]
Advice on Getting a Home Equity Line
Since home buying has sputtered, banks are feverishly pushing home equity lines of credit (or HELOCs) to homeowners whose properties have regained much of the value they lost during the housing bust. “Lenders are opening up their spigots,” Sam Khater, deputy chief economist at CoreLogic, a mortgage-data firm, told The Wall Street Journal. Should you bite? […]
Money Magazine: Help Your Kid Dig Out of Debt
No mom or dad wants their adult children to view them as a walking ATM. Still, when they’re struggling financially, what are you going to do? One thing’s for sure: A lot of them do need help. The typical 25- to 29-year-old owes more than $35,000, according to a recent study from PNC Financial Services […]
Three Money Tips for New College Grads on Forbes.com
What New College Grads Need To Know About Money By Caitlin Bonney, Next Avenue Contributor [I recently wrote a Next Avenue blog post about attending the college graduation of my niece Caitlin Bonney and offered a few long-term money and career tips to her — and to the rest of the Class of 2014. But Caitlin says she and her […]
Credit Card Challenges Boomer Women Are Facing
Credit cards have been top of mind for me, and, I suspect, many of you lately. Hardly a week goes by without news of another credit and debit card security breach at major retailers. But the new Americans and Credit Cards study from Credit.com is making me especially concerned about the way some women are using their cards. The […]
Has Your Credit Report Cost You A Job?
The job market has been tough for older workers, but did you ever imagine that you wouldn’t land a job because of your credit report? It’s possible. As I wrote about in my Forbes blog, Bad Credit Can Cost You a Job, if you’re looking to change careers, find a new job, get promoted, or […]
Employers Penalizing Spouses For Health Insurance
Here’s a dose of medicine women might not want to swallow: It’s getting more expensive for a wife to get health insurance through her husband’s plan. Employers, it seems, are madly seeking ways to put a tourniquet on their escalating health care costs. “They’re well aware that in 2014, when the health reform law’s provisions […]
Your Ex and Your Credit: Kerry’s interview on KGO 810 News/Information-San Francisco
Click here to listen to my interview with Consumer guru Michael Finney on KGO 810 News/Information in San Francisco. It’s near the end of the hour. Starts at 35:14! Talking about my NextAvenue.org column on Credit woes and your Ex. Great tips here: http://www.kgoradio.com/Article.asp?id=2515850&spid=31284
Don’t Let Your Ex Ruin Your Credit
As if divorce isn’t fraught with enough pain and aggravation, your finances can wind up as collateral damage if your ex or soon-to-be ex has bad credit. Months after you’ve moved on, you could be unexpectedly rejected for a car loan or a new credit card. The interest rate on a card you already have […]
