Researchers at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College recently measured that more than 40% of households may be at risk for seeing their standard of living decline in retirement. They also found that people born after 1955 have an increasing risk of living in poverty.
It is a depressing statistic that should scare [...]

Traditional individual retirement accounts and Roth IRAs are both good ways to save for your retirement while enjoying either a tax deferral or tax free benefits. In a traditional IRA, you invest pre-tax dollars and pay taxes when you withdraw the money. A Roth IRA on the other hand, you pay taxes on [...]

Occasionally, a hot investment opportunity or situation appears when you are not very liquid in capital to take advantage of it. If you only had the funds, you would get in this sure thing, but where can you get a short term loan to do so? A personal loan from your bank is [...]