Investment

Budget Battles

  • A Written Retirement Plan Can Double Your Savings

    By Beth Braverman

    Middle-class Americans with a written financial retirement plan are saving more than twice as much as people without one, according to a new Wells Fargo Retirement survey . “People who have a written...

  • The Super-Rich Are as Miserable as the Rest of Us

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    Let’s agree right off the bat that $25 million is a lot of money. Sure, to paraphrase Chris Rock (NSFW), if Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with a net worth of $25 million, he’d jump out a window. But to...

  • Volatility Will Continue Through the Election

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    Get ready for another blast of head-spinning volatility. Following the most turbulent market week in years, some strategists are ready to call the all clear. But others say stocks could test the lows...

  • Are 401(k) Plans Setting Up Millennials for Pain?

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    Rob Arnott, one of the investment world’s Big Thinkers, has advanced a worrying argument: that an investing approach devised to help us more safely and sensibly steer toward retirement may actually...

  • How to Survive a Scary Stock Market

    By Sheyna Steiner, Bankrate

    Besides the famous certainty of death and taxes, there's another bit of unpleasantness that everyone can count on: The stock market will go down. The silver lining is that it has always gone back up...