Financial Blog
Crucial: Check Your Child’s Credit BEFORE It’s Too Late
With everything single moms need to worry about, it’s a shame we have to deal with this, too. But the child identity theft industry is huge, and it’s only getting bigger. Unfortunately, most of us find out the hard way that our kids have been victimized… You take your...
Do These 10 Things to Protect Your Financial Info NOW
Your personal financial information has been hacked. More than 143 million Americans were made vulnerable by the recent Equifax breach, and you are most likely one of them. That means your Social Security number, birth date, driver’s license data, credit card numbers,...
Five Good Mutual Funds for Beginners
When you’re new to investing, it can be hard to figure out where to start. That’s where mutual funds come into play: They offer access to hundreds – even thousands – of stocks or bonds with a single share, making diversification affordable for anyone. Most of us can’t...
Not Sure Where to Invest? Here’s a Beginner Portfolio to Help You Get Started
Updated for 2020 Choosing your first investments can be overwhelming. There are so many options available, and it’s hard to figure out where to start…and the sheer number of choices can be crippling. To get instant diversification, low fees, and hundreds of...
10 Surprisingly Easy Ways to Protect Your Financial Info
You hear about data breaches in the headlines every day. Target, Yahoo!, big banks…and the list goes on. No company is immune – and that means we are all in danger. Where you live affects your risk According to the latest from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC),...