financial advice

I’ve worked in finance for 6+ years. I’ve also spent over 4,000 hours on Spaces discussing investing with experts. 99% of investment advice can be boiled down to these 21 sentences: 1. Knowing a little about 50 companies won’t make you money, but knowing a lot about 5 companies...

Dear Penny, I have just found out that my husband of 16 years in the last six months has gotten himself into gambling trouble of $150,000. Besides being devastated and heartbroken, I am trying to figure out how do I NOT drown and swim out of this water. We both are very successful with great-paying...

By Peter Blatt When it comes to investing, people fall into many categories.  There are risk-takers and there are overly cautious people. Some investors react to every up and down in the market, exulting in the gains they achieved at trading day’s end or fretting every time their stock...

By Francois Sicart Befuddled about where to invest your money? Maybe that shouldn’t be surprising. In the United States there are nearly 6,000 public companies that someone could invest in (never mind the rest of the world), and trying to find the shiny pearls in the midst of all that clutter...

By Kyle Bloyd TikTok is an immensely popular social media platform, but as a source of sound financial advice, it’s a mixed bag at best. Young adults and teens form the base of TikTok’s massive audience, but whoever is watching these short video clips about various financial aspects...

Having trouble deciding on a gift for that recent college grad of yours? The best gift of all might be stocks. The stock market can be intimidating to many young people who sometimes find it difficult to know where to begin. The gift of stock will open the world of investing and give a college...

For many adults, their first exposure to financial literacy was a dear old piggy bank, or perhaps a toy cash register that made a “ka-ching” noise as it dispensed play money. Kids grow up fast, of course, and soon they’re out in the real world trying to figure out what to do with...

CNBC's Jim Cramer has some free advice for the person who is $700 million richer thanks to the Powerball lottery. During his daily "Mad Money" show Wednesday Cramer offered some valuable pieces of advice that can also apply to anyone who finds themselves in a substantially better financial position...

April is Financial Literacy Month, and based on recent research conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, the financial literacy situation in America is severely lacking. Source: PWC.com, Bridging The Financial Literacy Gap: Empowering Teachers To Support The Next Generation To celebrate,...