You’ve heard of savings accounts and money market accounts. Which one should you choose?
Savings accounts are great for when you want to put away your money but still want relatively easy access. It’s not a checking account —...
Modern banks sit on treasure troves of data and can access even more from readily available public sources. Yet the question remains: What’s the most valuable way to use it? At U.S. Bank, this resource fuels what’s always been — and continues...
Let’s be brutally honest on this one. Budgets simply don’t work for most people.
Here are six reasons budgets don’t work in the real world.
Budgets suck. They’re not fun to live with. And so most...
SHELBY COUNTY, AL – A team from Oak Mountain High School is competing in the national championships this Friday in the Council for Economic Education’s 10th Annual National Personal Finance Challenge. The Oak Mountain state championship team will square off against 19...
Want to save more money? The go-to solution, according to many financial experts, is to create a budget and cut down on your expenses. But personal finance coach Ramit Sethi says budgets don’t work for most people.
”‘Create a...
Estate planning remains one of the most misunderstood areas of planning. Over the years, I’ve met with people who “only needed a financial plan, not an estate plan” or “didn’t need a financial plan, just some help with estate planning.” I’ve also...
Maybe you won’t hit an actual million in retirement savings. But if you change your strategies now, it’s definitely possible to double or triple the size of your retirement account.
It all depends on how much you learn and...
If you’re concerned about saving enough money for retirement, you’re not alone. One in five Americans has no retirement savings at all, according to a survey from Northwestern Mutual, and one-third of baby boomers have $25,000 or less stashed away.
At the end of the fourth quarter of 2018, Fidelity Investments reported that 133,800 of the retirement accounts it manages had a balance of $1 million or more.
That’s only a small percentage of the company’s accounts, but the...
Older workers have seen their wages come to a halt.
That’s the takeaway from a new report by researchers at the Retirement Equity Lab at the New School for Social Research.
Weekly earnings for workers aged...
