You’ve put enough savings in an emergency fund and now you want to explore an investment strategy. The best ways to invest your money have boiled down to traditional approaches. This includes the stock market, mutual funds, retirement accounts like a Roth IRA, and savings accounts or money markets.  However, recent decades have proven that...

Whether you’re in charge of the family finances or you run a small business, you may wonder how to pay off debt effectively. We could all benefit from tools to help us handle our money better. From creating a budget and tracking your spending to handling debt repayments, these are the top tools you can...

Some CEOs opt to forego salaries entirely and pay themselves something ridiculous like a dollar per year, or stick with a starting wage hovering around $30,000. But don’t feel sorry for these apparent do-gooders. They more than make up for it in stocks, bonuses and other ways to make millions. Most CEOs happily take advantage of their...

In a time when savings accounts once offered virtually no interest earned, people are still wary of anything but the safest stock options. Even CDs provide a dismal return unless you promise to lock away your investment for a lifetime. Is it any wonder why some savers go old school? They hide money in a...