Personal Finance

You made a decision to work with a financial professional and have started to interview prospective candidates. You notice some candidates have a string of letters after their name. Chances are that alphabet soup refers to one or more professional designations. Here are three things it pays to know about financial designations.

U.S. securities regulators like FINRA want you to keep these nine tips in mind this World Investor Week—and every week—when you invest.

Pressure tactics and sound investing rarely, if ever, go hand in hand. This holds true when it comes to pressure to sign legal documents that give someone else the authority to make decisions on your behalf, such as a Power of Attorney, or POA.

Drawing on the findings of the FINRA Investor Education Foundation's National Financial Capability Study of more than 25,000 American adults, the FINRA Foundation has developed five tips to help consumers both manage their day-to-day financial challenges and build a brighter financial future.

Financial fraud routinely follows on the heels of disaster. Hurricane Harvey and the historic flooding it left it its wake, and the widespread damage caused by Irma, are no exception. We are issuing this Alert to warn investors that investment scams may come your way touting stocks and other investments with the promise of huge gains in the wake of Harvey and Irma

A new era in securities settlement has arrived. T+2—the new, and shorter, standard settlement cycle for securities transactions in the U.S.—is now a reality.

Hurricane Harvey’s destruction is a forceful reminder that you rarely have very much advance warning to prepare for natural disasters. For this reason, it's important to assemble a financial emergency kit now, ahead of a crisis. Here are 5 things your kit should include.

Some students heading back to school this fall will see at least a bit of their classroom time devoted to personal finance, but that doesn’t mean the lessons should stop there. Here are six tips for parents looking to guide their kids toward wise money management at an early age.

Americans have changed the way they save for retirement. Gone are the days where a company pension served as the cornerstone of retirement assets for many Americans. Here are six trends. How do your retirement saving practices stack up?

The Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act of 2014 provided Americans with disabilities the opportunity to save in a tax-deferred account similar to a 529 college savings plan, as a supplement to their government benefits. Here are six things you should know about ABLE accounts, which are also called 529 A accounts.