Tag Archives: children

credit cards, saving · August 5, 2015

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.

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Annuities, Retirement, saving · July 29, 2015

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…

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budgeting, Emergency Funds, saving · July 22, 2015

Emergency Fund 101 – How Much Should You Have Saved?

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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Investing, Retirement, Roth Accounts, saving · April 29, 2015

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.

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Emergency Funds, saving · October 10, 2013

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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credit cards, debt, Retirement · August 6, 2013

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…

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Life Insurance · May 6, 2013

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…

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