Follow these tips to crush your financial goals in 2020. Getty In a survey by Fidelity Investments, 67% of Americans said they’re planning to make financial resolutions for 2020, with saving more and paying down debt topping the resolution chart. Of course making such resolutions is easier than keeping them. A third of New Year’s
Getty There is a ritual that often occurs in high net worth households in the final weeks of the year. It can be a check in the mail or tucked inside a Christmas present. At other times, it may be a deposit into a 529 plan or a trust without the beneficiary knowing. Regardless, we are at the
New York Street sign (E 57 St) and skyscraper reflections Getty In Manhattan, pencil-thin is “in.” For models, and also for buildings such as the ultra-thin residential towers on 57th Street that made it the most exclusive address in a global ranking by Knight Frank and Douglas Elliman Real Estate. The two brokerages ranked streets
A canceled flight, in many of us, inspires frustration and anger. And for billionaire Richard Branson, it’s no different. Only when the British entrepreneur was met with a cancelled flight in the early 80s, it inspired another response, too: A new business idea. Branson — already a successful businessman, having formed Virgin Records some years
U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Health Care for America Act during a ceremony with fellow Democrats in the East Room of the White House March 23, 2010 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty Images Recently, a federal court decided the central provision of the Affordable Care Act requiring all Americans to be
Praying woman in the city. Getty The lyrics to a Jim Reeves classic song capture the heartbreak Employee Retirement System of Rhode Island (ERSRI) stakeholders, including taxpayers and pensioners, must be feeling this holiday season. Please release me let me go for I don’t love you anymore … To live a lie would bring us
Getty It’s the twelfth (and last) day of my 12 Days of Charitable Giving for 2019. Readers have suggested deserving charities over the past few weeks, and I’ll be posting the results here. Today’s charity is Legal Aid of North Carolina. Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) provides free legal help to low-income North Carolinians
broken chinese fortune cookie with 2020 and red hearts on the paper slip on a dark background with… [+] copy space, new year concept, high angle view from above Getty As my regular readers know, I am a huge proponent of diversification, as I consider it one of the best ways to sleep well at
An Avengers fan holds tickets at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood to attend the opening screening of “Avengers: Endgame” in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 25, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters The 2019 U.S. box office is headed toward the second-best annual haul in cinematic history. As of Sunday, the movies released this year
For some couples, this winter holiday will be unforgettable. December is the most popular time to pop the question and, for the recently engaged, 2020 will be the very beginning of a new life. However, weddings are expensive, and merging personal finances can get complicated. The average American wedding costs nearly $39,000, and more young