Give Your Child the Gift of a Roth IRA
You can fund a Roth IRA account for a minor anytime during the year as long as the recipient earns at least as much as your contribution by year-end.
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Financial Literacy Gets a Hip-Hop Makeover
Long filled with messages of outlandish lifestyles and expensive habits, hip-hop has lately been promoting more frugal choices. From "Mo Money, Mo Problems" to the virtues of shopping secondhand in "Thrift Shop," the genre's done a 180.
Women and Money: Saving, Struggling and Teaching the Kids
A global survey on financial literacy confirms it: Men and women have different financial priorities. But what may surprise you is how styles vary from country to country.
4 Ways to Make Financial Literacy Work for Kids
Financial literacy is right up there with Mom and apple pie as an American ideal, but it's a challenge to figure out how to achieve it. Here's what the smart money suggests.
7 Ways to Encourage Your Kids to Develop Good Money Habits
Low interest rates have made convincing kids to open savings accounts a tougher sell. You can't just tell a 9-year-old to save because it's good for her -- you need an incentive, like prospect of a great return. So here are seven ideas to help your kids profitably put their money to work.
Buying Your Teen's First Car: What You Need to Know
Buying your teen a first car is fraught with emotions, and even more laden with financial implications: Used or new? Who pays for what? How much input does the new driver get in the purchase decision? How can you get the best deal on insurance? We surveyed the experts to get those answers and more.
Five Investing Rules You Can Learn From Kids
Looking at investing from a child's perspective can be eye-opening. And you don't need to have kids of your own to heed these lessons. Here are five tips for thinking like a child -- and turning that into some grown-up profits.
