Personal Finance

Last week, my 55-year-old married daughter (her husband is 58) called to express her anger that I had failed to send her a $25 gift certificate. They have 401(k) accounts totaling over $750,000 and a home valued at over $550,000.

This past week, the broad-based S&P 500 hit a fresh all-time closing high, which has been a common theme for the widely followed index this year.

A Mad Fientist reader named Brian reached out to me and said that he increased his savings rate by utilizing some of the tax-avoidance strategies I write about here.

Money can be a sore subject in any relationship. Sharing bank accounts with your partner may make your budget issues even worse, according to Suze Orman, host of the "Women & Money" podcast.

Sam Primm told Insider he and his best friend bought their first property when they were 26 years old. He's now been in real estate for about seven years. It's an endeavor he began after deciding he wanted to build wealth and become financially free.

Dave Ramsey is a popular personal finance personality, and he's got some great advice about paying back debt. But his advice about retirement planning leaves a lot to be desired.

Have a question about your own retirement savings? Email us at HelpMeRetire@marketwatch.com Hello,  I’m hoping you could help me get an idea of how much I need to earn monthly in order to save enough money for retirement.  I’m 24 years old, I only work part time and live with my mother.

There are countless retirement strategies that can help you fund your golden years. But an interest-only retirement plan can help remove one of the biggest fears about life after leaving your job: Will my money outlast me?

An inside look at how Nike founder Phil Knight is giving a fortune to his family while avoiding billions in U.S. taxes. Sitting in the bleachers by the University of Oregon’s running track, Nike Inc.

A friend who had just retired called. She was wondering how she should use her retirement corpus. I have a long list in mind she said, and I began to panic. Like what I asked? Renovate my home, buy myself a new car, take some much postponed trips and may be buy some jewellery, she said.

‘I was told by my income tax preparer that she should have paid some kind of a tax. But she never filed income taxes for years as she was not required to because of her low income.’ Dear MarketWatch, My late mother passed her condo onto me through a quitclaim process 10 years before she died.

More people are going to retire in the next 15 years than have ever retired in the history of our country. By 2030, the Census Bureau projects we’ll reach the first time that the United States will have more 65-and-older adults than children — 78 million age 65+ versus 76.

It is the start of a new academic year and while that might not be as associated with resolutions as the day the calendar year ticks over, it is not a bad time to make a few changes.

Everyone wants to be happy in retirement. So what will it take to get there?

If you were planning to do a “Roth IRA” conversion to keep your retirement savings permanently out of the hands of the IRS, you might want to get on it.