Personal Finance

If you want to buy stocks, options, mutual funds, or ETFs, you're going to have to use some sort of broker and online brokers, at least for the individual investor, are definitely the way to go. They have cheaper fees and commissions, offer analytical tools, and have made it almost too easy to buy and sell stocks. This article [presents 10 brokers that] I have either used, tried, or seriously considered myself and is intended as a jumping off point for you to do your own research and find what broker offers the best fit for your own investing style.

Trust is obviously a huge aspect of any client relationship in the financialinvesting6 services industry, but there are some red flags people can look for to make sure their outsourced investment advice isn’t coming from a charlatan. Here are four tricks the finance industry plays on their clients.

There are lots of investing and other financial tools available to the individual investor in today’s world and apps shouldn’t be ignored. They conveniently sit at your fingertips ready to provide analysis, ideas, money management, and other data. In this article I present 10 of my most used apps for investing and other financial aspects of my life.

Compare your salary. Negotiate smarter. Know where you stand. Compare salaries by industries, employers, and even university alumni. 143,332 professionals have already shared their data.

So you want to be rich? In order to join the millionaires’ club – and not get booted out because you went broke spending all your money – you’ve got to develop money smarts. The rich don’t stay rich by spending frivolously and being obsessed with beating the Joneses’. Here are some money management essentials you may want to keep in mind to master like the millionaires do.

A study by the consulting firm McKinsey suggests that one can expect lower market returns over the next 30 years than we’ve experienced over the past 30. Does that automatically spell doom for Millennials who are investing their money? Not necessarily. Here's why.

Gold investors have been slow and cautious to adopt crypto-currencies such as bitcoin seeing them as false competition to real money such as gold and silver. The major argument from gold bugs has been that bitcoin is not backed by anything tangible [but] that has all changed with the recent introduction of Digix - the gold standard in peer-to-peer digital assets because it is literally backed by gold.

78% of NFL players, 60% of NBA players and a very large percentage of MLB players (4x that of the average U.S. citizen) file bankruptcy within five years of retirement. Let's take a look at 5 possible reasons why the average athlete is destined to go (quickly) from fame to shame.

Mr. Trump is a presidential candidate unlike anything we have seen in modern times and his desire to jumpstart a currency war and willingness to think creatively may elevate gold’s standing domestically & internationally for decades to come. Let me explain.

Today’s data visualization, using the latest information from Wealth-X, takes an in-depth look at the world’s wealthiest billionaires by breaking down important data on age, location, and the source of their fortunes.