As a financial planner, I encourage a proactive approach to recession-proofing your retirement, including switching the bulk of your portfolio to safer investments with consistent rates of return. One ...

At the start of November, wealth managers and their clients stood watching and waiting as America decided its next president.

Want to make your money stretch further in retirement? Where you live matters, and these states are the most affordable.

Here is a rundown of the Election Day 2024 state and local ballot measures and results that jumped out at us: Washington Initiative 2066: Voters approved this statewide ballot initiative, which will ...

Retirement savers contributing to a 401(k) plan can make larger contributions in 2025. The Internal Revenue Service boosted the annual contribution limit for 401(k)s, ...

“Investing in ETFs can be an efficient way to diversify your portfolio and gain broad exposure to the assets within the ETF instead of purchasing each of the assets individually,” says Keith Jones, a ...

Here's what they had to say. 1. An index fund can be a mutual fund Even though it might sound confusing, Clayton Wood, a financial planner, says a good first step is understanding that an index ...

Thanks to a celebrated book, we know all about Robert Moses’ dictatorial misdeeds in New York City. But the truth is that many of his worst visions were being realized in cities across the country.

A CD is a fixed-term savings product offered by banks. These provide higher interest rates in exchange for locking up your ...

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the ...

I've been working with my financial planner, Liz, of the New School of ... "What they want is to have passive index investments at a low fee, and they don't feel compelled to have a dedicated ...