Competing asset managers tend to offer very similar ETF lineups, especially when it comes to sector funds. Whether you’re looking at Vanguard, iShares, or State Street, you’ll usually find a full set of ETFs…
Ever wonder why some portfolios keep delivering steady income even when the market turns choppy? Dividend growth stocks have a quiet edge. According to Hartford Funds’ analysis with Ned Davis Research, S&P 500 stocks…
Healthcare is not always the most exciting sector to own, and the companies in it grind it out, quarter after quarter, raise dividends quietly, and generally do not produce the kind of explosive returns…
For most of the past three months, the XRP price has been stuck between $1.28 and $1.45. The bears keep showing up at $1.45 every time XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) tries to push through, but…
Did you know that Vanguard has one of the oldest mutual funds still in existence? It’s called the Vanguard Wellington Fund Investor Shares (VWELX), and it debuted all the way back in 1929. Since…
SpaceX is the ticker every retail investor is asking about, fueled by IPO chatter and Elon Musk headlines that refuse to quiet down. Four publicly traded exchange-traded funds (ETFs) already deliver the space exposure…
The market has spent much of 2026 stuck between two competing forces — stubbornly high interest rates and a growing expectation they’ll eventually fall. That tension has left income investors asking a simple question:…
The hosts of the How to Money podcast, on Friday Flight episode #1131, drew a line most parents funding a 529 have never thought about. “If you have $35,000 in there, great. If you…
A public school teacher at 55 with a 403(b) and access to a governmental 457(b) plan can legally shelter $65,000 from federal taxes in 2026. A private-sector employee the same age, maxing a standard…
$4,800 a month sounds like a real retirement income. For a single 63-year-old, it is close to the median household income in many mid-cost American cities. The problem is what happens after taxes, fixed…
When investors talk about precious metals as a store of value, gold tends to dominate the conversation while silver gets treated as the cheaper alternative, a kind of gold-lite trade for investors who missed…
A mom named Sandy from Michigan called into The Clark Howard Podcast this week with a parenting question. “My 12-year-old asked me about getting a Cash App teen account to learn more about finances,”…
Brent crude started 2026 near $61 a barrel. Today it trades above $127 (spot price, not futures). That move did not happen because of demand growth or a supply agreement. It happened because the…
Somehow, members of Congress have turned relatively modest salaries into impressive investment portfolios while the rest of us grind it out in the market. For years, questions have swirled around lawmakers buying and selling…
Brian Preston of the Money Guy Show recently distilled a quiet crisis into one number: “57% of Americans, that this is where they don’t report having any money outside of 401(k)s, meaning that if…
