The Opportunity Cost

It’s a common goal among parents: in order to provide a more solid financial footing for their child after college, they spare him or her from going deeply into debt by footing the bill. The price is not cheap even to send one child to college; imagine if you had multiple kids – your expenses would run into the hundreds of thousands!...

Within your Means

Critical advice to remember for retirement security: your retirement lifestyle needs to align with your savings level. Many people assume that once they retire, they'll manage to maintain the same lifestyle they did during their working years. But unless you've saved well, you may need to cut corners to make up for the fact that you're living on a fixed income (and, most likely, a lower one at that)....