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Children, Family, Financial Security, Retirement, Saving

Top Way to Financially Help Adult Children

I have been hearing from so many of you who are worried about how your adult kids are faring, and will fare, in our current economy. Some of those kids have moved home. Some are struggling to make end

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Children, Credit Cards, Family, Financial Security, Gift Giving

Let’s Talk About Holiday Spending…Right Now

Yes, I know the calendar says it’s only Halloween. But this is the perfect time that you and I have a serious chat about your spending budget for the upcoming holiday season.

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Budgeting, Children, Emergency Fund, Family, Kids, Money Management

What Are You Teaching Your Kids About Money Right Now?

A recent survey conducted by Schwab asked Americans what they think are the most important “lessons” parents should teach their kids.

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Charity, Children, Children And Money, Family, Gift Giving, Saving

What to Do When Your Child Receives a Cash Gift

Teaching your children the pleasure of saving is going to be one of your hardest tasks, since chances are you do not enjoy it either. If you force them to save, they might grow to resent it.

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Children, Family, Money Management, Relationships, Retirement, Saving

Is Your Family Putting Your Retirement at Risk?

Oh, the things we do for love! A recent survey reports that more than half of U.S. investors provide financial assistance, or personal care to adult children or other family members. The financial aid

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Children, Children And Money, Family, Financial Independence, Money Management, Saving

What’s Your Financial Education Plan for the New School Year?

I hope you and your family have had a fantastic summer full of fun, adventure and most of all, relaxation. With the academic school year starting soon, it’s an important time for parents –and grandp

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Children, Children And Money, Family, Women And Money

The Important Lessons Your Kids Won’t Learn in School

As a new academic year begins, I want to make sure that parents understand the important lessons that will not be taught in school.

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Children, Financial Independence, Investing, IRA, Kids, Retirement, Saving

Your Kid’s Summer Job Can be an Amazing Financial Opportunity

If your child or grandchild is getting paid for a summer job, it is an amazing opportunity for you to teach two of the most powerful financial lessons.

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Children, Family, Gift Giving, Saving Money

Now is the Time to Get Your Family on Board with a Smart Holiday Plan

If you’re honest, I am confident you would tell me that you wish you could spend less around the holidays. This has nothing to do with being a Scrooge. But you also know from experience, that you end up spending way more than you intended. Not necessarily because you were extravagant. Quite often it’s just the sheer number of people in your life that you exchange gifts with, that can add up.

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Children, College, Family, Student Loans, Students

How to Get the Best Bang for Your College Buck

I am a big believer in college education, and an even bigger believer in getting a return on your investment. But I don’t know any financial advisor who can guarantee that a $180,000 investment in a

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Children, College, Family, Retirement, Saving, Women And Money

What Every Woman Needs to Get Schooled On.

When the American College of Financial Services recently quizzed retirement-aged people on the basics of how to make their money last, just 35 percent of men passed the test. As troubling as that is, only 18 percent of women passed.

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Children, Family, Financial Independence, Saving

Are You Ready to Declare Your Financial Independence?

I hope you have a fantastic July 4th, and that it includes some time to reflect on the principles of our democracy that are celebrated on this holiday. We have so much to be grateful for.

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About Suze, Children, Children And Money, Family

Suze’s New Children’s Book

#1 New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned financial expert Suze Orman makes her children’s book debut in this story of a one-dollar bill named Billy and penny named Penny.

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Charity, Children, Family, Gift Giving, Personal Growth

What to Do With an Unused Gift Card

I hope your friends and family hit the bull’s eye with your gifts this holiday season. But I bet there are many of you who received a gift card (or two, or three) that you don’t have a burning desire to use. As much as you love the sentiment of the gift giver, perhaps you just don’t need-or want-anything from the particular retailer your gift-giver chose.

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About Suze, Charity, Children, Family, Gift Giving, Personal Growth, Scam, Scam Alert

Give Your Kids the Gift of Giving

The run up to the holidays at the end of the month is an especially great time to teach young children some money and life lessons.

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Children, Etf, Family, Gift Giving, Investing, Mutual Funds, Retirement, Saving Money

Why ETFs Are The Best Choice For Your Retirement Investments

You know I am a big believer that a Roth Individual Retirement Account (IRA) is the best way to save for retirement. And for my money, I think Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are an ideal way to invest the money in your IRA.

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Children, College, Debt, Family, Investing, Saving

Take Interest In Shoring Up Your Finances Now

It's human nature to think that making money entails investing in the stock market, bond market or real estate. But another important way to boost your net worth is to pay down your debts.

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401k, Children, College, Etf, Family, Investing, Retirement, Saving, Women And Money

How to Wring More From Your 401(K)

You may have heard or read recently about some high profile retirement plan sponsors being sued by plan participants for high fees in the plan. Financial service firms-yep, folks who run mutual funds-have been hit with lawsuits, as have the plans run by MIT, NYU and Yale.

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Children, Divorce, Family, Marriage, Money Management, Student Loans, Women And Money

My House Rules for Boomerang Kids.

More adult children are living with family than at any time in the past 60 years. Whether your twenty-something bundle of joy is back home (or never left!) because you’re a better roommate with better digs, or because they have yet to find a career job, you still need to lay down some financial expectations:

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Children, Family, Saving, Savings

Money Lessons Every Parent Needs To Teach This School Year:

It’s that time of year again: back to school. While I know there are legions of amazing teachers waiting to educate your kids, I need you to step up and do some important teaching that most schools drop the ball on: personal finance.

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Career, Children, Children And Money, Credit Cards, Family, Fico Score, Personal Growth, Teens, Work

Teach your Children Well-Part 3: Give Your Kid’s Credit

Young adults are making a big mistake with their finances. Survey after survey reports that most millennials do not have a credit card. I am wholeheartedly on board with preferring a debit card. But everyone needs to also have a credit card and use it responsibly.

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Children, Children And Money, College, Family, Saving, Student Loans, Teens

Teach Your Children Well-Part 2: Instill the Pleasure of Saving

You know your kids are sponges. So let me ask you a question: what lessons about saving are they absorbing from you?

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Bills, Budgeting, Children, Children And Money, Family, Investing, Teens, Women And Money

Teach Your Children Well-Part 1: Bill Pay Together

Sitting down with your children once a month and having them help you pay the family bills is an incredibly valuable life-lesson opportunity that sadly few families use.

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Children, Children And Money, Home Buying, Home Loans, Investing, Kids, Mortgage, Mortgage Rates, Saving, Teens

Turn a Child/Grandchild’s Summer Job into a Retirement Windfall.

If you have a child or grandchild who is going to get paid for work this summer, I want you to consider a way to gift them a valuable retirement stake.

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Charity, Children, Debt, Family, Gift Giving, Goals, Personal Growth

Financial Fear No More! Three Steps Toward Financial Freedom

Your money challenges are very personal. You may have a large credit card balance gnawing at you, while your best friend is awake at night worrying about being able to keep working through her 60s,

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Children, Children And Money, Family, Finacial Planning, Gift Giving, Kids, Life Insurance, Savings, Trusts

Money Gifts to Kids: 3 Rules Every Parent Must Follow

As we are heading into the holiday season, I know plenty of kids will be receiving a check from a grandparent, aunt or uncle. So I want to review how every family with kids under 18 should handle financial gifts year round.

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Children, Children And Money, College, Credit, Family, Fico Score, Kids, Student Loans

3 Rules for Doling Out Allowances

Parents, we have a problem. So many of you make a mess out of allowances. You reward the wrong thing, and totally miss out on the big picture: beginning to teach your child about the value of money. Here are my 3 Suze-Approved Rules for Allowances:

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Children, Cutting Costs, Debt, Family, Saving, Student Loans

Five Easy Moves to Save At Least $100 a Month

I’ve spent a lot of time poring over the finances of families who come to me for help. No matter what problem they are trying to fix, a universal step in my review is to go through their monthly spending in detail and show them how trimming back on certain expenses can add up to substantial savings.

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Children, Family, Home Buying, Home Loans, Kids, Life Insurance, Mortgage, Mortgage Rates

The Massive Mistake 4 in 10 Parents With Young Children Make …and how to fix it in four easy steps

A new survey makes me sad, mad and very nervous. According to Bankrate.com, 37% of parents with children under the age of 18 have no life insurance. And even the parents with life insurance aren’t really protecting their family, as one-third have policies with death benefits that do not exceed $100,000. That may sound like a lot of money, but it’s woefully little once you sit down and run the numbers.

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Children, Children And Money, College, Credit Cards, Family, Fico Score, Kids, Saving, Teens

How Grandparents Can Make the Most of a Grandchild’s Summer Job

So often grandparents come up to me and ask how they can best help their grandchildren get a leg up. My favorite move is to gift a grandchild money to open a Roth IRA. Here’s what you need to know:

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Children, Children And Money, Family, Retirement, Saving, Teens, Women And Money

A Message for Husbands: Your Wife Should Drive the Retirement Planning

One of the most common things I hear from many couples is that the husband likes investing and planning, and thus wives are all too happy to let him handle the retirement strategizing. Big mistake. Not because I am doubting the skill and intentions of men. Rather, my concern is that it’s women who typically are the most at risk in terms of retirement security for a very simple fact: Women tend to outlive men.

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Bills, Budgeting, Children, Children And Money, Emergency Fund, Family, Personal Growth, Saving, Teens

Emergency Fund 101

It makes me so sad to read reports that many households don’t have even $1,000 set aside to cover an unexpected expense. What’s so sad is that I know that must cause such stress.

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401k, Children, Children And Money, Investing, Kids, Retirement, Roth IRA, Saving, Teens

The Four Steps to Retirement Saving

Saving for retirement is a no-brainer. But knowing the smartest ways to do that saving is anything but easy to figure out, given all the choices. Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. Here’s exactly what you should do, in the order I list:

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Car Buying, Children, Children And Money, Family, Gift Giving, Kids, Saving, Savings

Suze Orman's road rules for car buying

The car you're driving could be driving you into poverty, says Suze Orman. While lenders are relaxing terms and offering longer periods for borrowers to pay, Orman is sticking by her rules of the road.

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Children, Children And Money, Credit Cards, Debt, Family, Kids, Retirement

Suze Orman: Don’t put your retirement on a credit card

As the economy slowly recovers, Americans are struggling to get out of credit card debt they amassed during tougher financial days...Out of desperation to stay current, or to rid themselves of their debt, people are looking at their retirement accounts as a cash source. But Suze Orman says that's the biggest mistake you could make.

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About Suze, Children, Family, Kids, Life Insurance, Personal Growth

The 8 Qualities of a Successful Life

Years ago, after my first book came out and I had made a few television appearances, I was nearly accosted on the street by a very animated woman who kept pointing at me and then exclaimed "I know who you are... you are the... Money Lady!" I've adopted that as a nickname of sorts. I am indeed the lady whose passion is to help people make the most of their money.

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