Financial Planning

Aside from the meltdowns of the financial markets in the past decade, arguably not much has garnered more attention than international and emerging market investing.

Every business owner knows the drill: We made a profit this year so we need to spend our cash to save on taxes. I want to challenge you to think differently this year to “save cash,” not “save taxes.”

Millions of small business owners are unprepared for retirement, with a third of the women and a quarter of the men in a new survey having no estimate of how much they will need when they retire.

My family spent the President's Day weekend in one of the frozen towns in upstate New York that serves as home to two of the 4,500 colleges and universities that call the Empire State home to get a look-see at some potential locations for my younger daughter to call home for the next four years.

More than half of small businesses may not have optimal retirement plans, according to a new survey.

Americans are regaining confidence in their financial security, according to a new survey by Country Financial.

Wells Fargo is using Twitter to spread the word about saving for retirement.

Just over 50 percent of Americans anticipate they will receive a refund on either their federal or state income tax return this year, according to a new survey, and of those 63 percent said they plan to save or invest at least part of the money.

The Internal Revenue Service has extended the deadline to file estate tax returns and make a portability election to benefit the surviving spouses of married individuals who died during the first six months of 2011.

There hasn’t been a federal budget in three years, so what’s to worry about the just-released budget for fiscal year 2013?