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Many young tech executives give up a fat paycheck to risk it all for start-up success. And they don't live to regret it.
More Americans are working into their retirement. But many seek meaningful work, not just financial gain.
Retirees who start tapping nest eggs during a bear market will come up short, but taking steps now to ensure a resilient portfolio can help.
Newly employed young people can get into financial trouble fast. Luckily, financial advisors have tips for the youngest investors.
Rather than maximizing potential returns through big chunks of stocks in their portfolios, young investors are taking a cautious approach.
Advisors say a crucial step in providing for future care of a special needs child is ensuring enough money goes into a special needs trust.
Whether for financial gain or fun, baby boomers are embarking on second careers that can bring in both money and, often, fulfillment.
The Internal Revenue Service expanded dollar limitations for some pension plans based on cost-of-living adjustments.
Having left advisor relationships to their husbands for years, many women opt to find a new financial planner once widowed.
With same-sex marriage now legal in 5 new states, gay couples must decide whether getting married will benefit or hurt them financially.
With 70 percent of newly wealthy people going broke within a year, advisors caution clients to manage new money wisely—with their help.
The competitiveness of your local economy and quality of its real estate market impact your wealth and your investment portfolio.
Consumers who use a financial advisor as their intermediary can avoid the most common estate-planning and last will and testament errors.
Despite being well educated, earning more money and controlling more wealth, many women fail to adequately plan and save for retirement.
Half of Gen Xers and a third of baby boomers support kids and elderly parents, putting their own budgets and retirement plans in peril.
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Louis Barajas is founder and CEO of Wealth Management LAB, a fee-only firm specializing in the entertainment industry.
Sophia Bera, founder of Gen Y Planning, has been named one of '10 Young Advisors to Watch.'
Douglas Boneparth is president of Bone Fide Wealth, a Manhattan-based wealth management firm focusing on millennials, young professionals and entrepreneurs.
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Large companies such as IBM, Microsoft and Facebook are investing heavily in the development of blockchain — a new, decentralized, digital-ledger technology that threatens their traditional business models.
Last year, investors in local currency emerging market debt benefited as the MSCI EM currency index rose 3.5 percent against the dollar. This year, it's reversed and with a risk-off mentality in global markets, local currency returns are negative.
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