How to Avoid Bank Overdraft Fees
Banks love to talk about how easy it is to do online banking, such as depositing checks via a smartphone app. But did you know that if you want to…
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…
Give Your Investments a Spring Cleaning
Where I live in Washington, D.C., the pink magnolia trees are blooming, and the daffodils are intensely yellow and screaming springtime — just in time for the first day of…
Financial Guidance for Widows In Retirement
“My husband and I had decided life was too short,” recalled Ginny McKinney, “so we went shopping to buy a travel trailer to take us into an early retirement.” That…
3 Top Tips for Your Finances
If you’re not paying attention to your finances because you find it boring or you use the excuse “I’m not good with numbers,” I have two words for you: Oh,…
How to Figure How Much You Will Need in Retirement
Thanks to modern medicine, people are living longer. This means, many of us are going to live longer, healthier lives than our parents’ generation. On average, men and women spend…
5 Money-Smart Holiday Gift Ideas For Your Kids
I’m shopping for holiday gifts this week, as I suspect many of you are. Some of my favorite names on my list are my nieces and nephews, age 17 to…
Should Women Manage Money Differently Than Men?
Men and women face different challenges when it comes to saving and investing. MONEY assembled a panel of experts to weigh in on how that should impact your planning. Saving,…
How to Boost Your Credit Score
Recently, I got an email from my Citibank Mastercard team urging me to view my updated FICO credit score, along with “key factors which affected” it. The note continued: “You…
Investing in Racehorses
One morning this past summer, Ahmed Zayat was in a stall at Del Mar racetrack in California alongside the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. “I was kind of cuddling…
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