6 Personal Finance Rules to Live By

Being fiscally responsible means you live by sound money principles that allow you to build a stable future for yourself and your family. An understanding of these basic financial tenants is the first step in achieving financial success. 1. Build an emergency fund....

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How to Give Your Home to Your Children Tax-Free

Before the days of estate taxes, children simply moved into the family home and took over the master bedroom after their parents died. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy anymore. There are several ways to give a home to your child. And a few are tax-free. But in order...

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Time Management For a Happy Retirement

For a happier retirement, the key isn’t how much free time you have to spend, it’s how you manage whatever free time you have.  That’s the conclusion of a fascinating new study about time management in retirement I think is worth heeding. Earlier research has found...

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Tips for the Future Care of Disabled Family Members

Christine Salerno is like many other single working mothers with small children, but her days are often packed with even more emotional highs and lows: Her 4-year-old daughter, Lily, with soft brown eyes and a wide smile, was found to have Rett syndrome, a rare...

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Childhood Dreams Can Inspire Rewarding Second Careers

Ever since Sandra Colony was a child, when she was spellbound by the glossy photographs of exotic places in the pages of National Geographic, she has been driven by the desire to explore the world. And she has. To date, she has visited 90 countries. “I knew I loved to...

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6 New Ways to Measure Your Financial Goals

Most of us want goals to shoot for, but all too often we pick the wrong ones. Earlier this month, Adam Nash, the chief executive of Wealthfront, explained the strange way this tends to happen at work. In a Corner Office column, he told my colleague Adam Bryant that if...

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How to Calculate Your Personal Balance Sheet

What do you own and what do you owe? To figure out where you stand financially, you need to know your net worth — and yet that number is surprisingly difficult to calculate. Your assets are more than just your home and your investments, while your liabilities extend...

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