Personal Finance

When the stock market gets rocky, focusing on your overall financial picture, combined with sound planning, can pay dividends. These 5 steps can help steady your pulse during market downturns and elevate your financial security.

Disagreement over money is a common source of tension for couples and an oft cited reason of divorce. Fortunately, there are things couples can do to bridge the investment style gap and keep the peace. Here are four tips to help you keep the harmoney in your relationship.

The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act aims to increase access to workplace retirement plans and generally expand opportunities to save for retirement, in addition to making changes related to education savings. Here are eight things to know about the SECURE Act.

Do you actively trade stocks? If so, it's important to know what it means to be a "pattern day trader" because there are requirements associated with engaging in pattern day trading.

The winter holidays are upon us—and while there still may be gifts to buy and a few loose ends to tie up at work, there are also important year-end financial moves well worth making.

One of the best ways you can protect your investment portfolio is to monitor your holdings and activity. You should make it a habit to review online or paper account statements and trade confirmations on a regular basis.

Increasingly, many investors have been choosing to put money where their values are—into a growing array of products that fall broadly into the category of environmental, social and governance investing, often called ESG investing for short. If you're thinking about investing in ESG products, here are some tips to keep in mind and traps to avoid.

If you want to stay out of the red on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and beyond, start by looking in the mirror. Many items purchased during these sales are non-gift items for yourself or your home.

Do you spend a lot of time on social media sites or looking for great online deals? If so, then you wear a bullseye when it comes to scammers hunting for money, according to groundbreaking fraud research from the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, BBB Institute for Marketplace Trust and the Stanford Center on Longevity.

Here's some good news for our nation's veterans and those who care about their welfare. The financial well-being of U.S. military veterans has improved in recent years, outpacing the gains of non-veterans, according to new research by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. Veterans, overall, reported having less difficulty covering their expenses and bills, had a lower likelihood of experiencing an income drop and were more likely to have an emergency fund, according to the survey of more than 3,000 veterans and more than 20,000 non-veterans.