married couples

    By Francine Huff

    | 6:30PM 12/01/2009
    About 74% of women say it's very important for their kids to go to college and get a degree, according to a new OppenheimerFunds Inc. survey. But in many cases, women spend a lot more time preparing their children to get into college than figuring out how to pay for it. According to the poll,...

    By Francine Huff

    | 4:30PM 10/12/2009
    Young married women are more likely to manage their household finances by themselves with little input from their spouses than men are, according to a survey by FindLaw.com. The poll found that 37% of married women between the ages of 18 to 34 go solo on managing money, compared with 30% of...

    By Michele Turk

    | 8:20PM 2/14/2008
    A survey released, not coincidentally, on Valentine's Day has shed some light on how couples can plan for a financially secure retirement. The Hartford and the MIT AgeLab teamed up to survey more than 800 retirees or those soon to be retired. All of the couples were either married or living...