6 Smart Moves to Boost Your Credit Score
Even if you're not planning on applying for a mortgage or credit card anytime soon, you need a good credit score. Here are some lesser-known strategies to help boost yours.
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Is She the Next Buffett? ING, Girls Inc. Groom Girl Investors
Only a quarter of women feel confident about making investment decisions, compared to nearly half of men who do. ING and Girls Inc. have a plan to close that confidence gap.
Money Terms to Know: Cash Flow
It's Financial Literacy Month, so throughout April we'll be examining key economic concepts that affect your everyday finances. Today's money term: cash flow.
Best Apps to Manage Your Money
Money magazine has served up a bounty of mobile apps to help you save more and budget better. Let's take a look at their top recommendations:
Quiz: How Financially Literate Are You?
From taxes and credit to saving and money management, you can get lost in the complexity of financial issues. How well do you know the basics of personal finance?
401(k) Fees: What You're About to Learn Will Shock You
When investors open their 401(k)statements this fall, they'll finally be able to see in detail how previously hidden fees have been chipping away at their retirement savings. That's a good start: Here's how to let that news shock you into action.
Financial Advice for Teens, From Teens (and Most Teens Need It)
Last year, Charles Schwab conducted a study on teens' financial knowledge and perspectives on money. Most considered themselves pretty savvy -- but weren't. Three teens who actually are have these smart tips for their peers.
Take Control of Your Finances This Week -- at the Local Library
If you lack money smarts, you're not alone. But the ranks of the financially inept might shrink a bit over the next seven days, thanks to the Money Smart Week program, a partnership between the American Library Association and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
7 Financial New Year's Resolutions to Keep
Every January, we plan to make changes, and we often don't succeed. Let's make this New Year's different: Here are seven fairly simple resolutions recommended by the financial experts for getting you on a firmer fiscal footing in 2012.
Girl Scouts Teach Girls to Get Real About Money
Those Girl Scouts aren't just about selling cookies -- the green-sashed entrepreneur who supplies your Thin Mints is also preparing to be the boss. The GSA now offers 13 merit badges to teach its more than 3 million members financial literacy -- everything from good credit to savings and investing.
