Personal Finance

NEW YORK—Here is some good news to hold onto this holiday season: Americans are giving more than ever. Last year, Americans gave a total of $410 billion to worthy causes, ...

CHICAGO–American homes are showing their age—not the houses, but the people living in them. In 2016, about 55 ...

NEW YORK–Doing double the good with your charitable dollars sounds like a no-brainer, but investors are just starting ...

CHICAGO—All that tuition you pay has one silver lining: tax breaks. If you want to make sure to ...

CHICAGO—Already seeing winter holiday decorations in your local stores, even though it is just Halloween? In the same ...

CHICAGO—Think you are getting a big refund in April when you file the first tax return under the ...

NEW YORK—When the stock market has suffered a couple of really big slides in a row, the financial advice ...

NEW YORK—You could hardly design a worse scenario for smart money management than being a rookie in the ...

CHICAGO—Steve Vernon is an expert on numbers—but please do not ask him for your “number”—that is, the amount ...

If you haven’t booked your flights for Thanksgiving yet, you should do it now. After summer's expensive fares, ...

CHICAGO—Parents may think they can stop paying attention to financial aid after their child has decided on a ...

NEW YORK—You might think you make really good money decisions. But is it skill or luck? Did you choose ...

NEW YORK—Time for a little thought experiment: Take a moment and think of the savings you will need ...

NEW YORK—When you are known for starting a personal finance company, people expect you to have your own ...

NEW YORK—Donna Childs recently bought a home in Rhode Island about 5 minutes from the Pocasset River, and, ...

Imagine there was a pill. It lessened your debt, made you more fulfilled, saved the planet, and tidied ...

The debate between active and passive investing will probably never end, but the trend toward passively managed money ...

Earnings season couldn’t be coming at a better time for the stock market.

Recently released fiscal documents show the Canadian government won’t collect $203.5 million in debts from 34,240 students, according ...

The residential mortgage market in Canada faces a rocky 2018 as it deals with a new stress test ...

2017 has been a banner year for stocks. The next question becomes, can stocks keep going up in ...

How quickly things change for Toronto’s housing market.

Shifting expectations—that’s been the name of the game affecting U.S. stocks for the first half of 2017

In answer to what she describes as "a movement of women creating businesses ... doing what they love," ...

Lasting Powers of Attorney don’t need to be used straight away; they may not even be used at ...

Investors have hundreds of options to invest directly in the change they want to see in the world.

British people have woken up to the news that their country has voted to leave the European Union. ...