It’s a staple of late-night television advertising. Charitable organizations asking people to send a regular monetary donation to improve a child’s life through access to education. And as noble a pursuit as that is, it has largely overlooked an entire segment of the most destitute in developing nations. An organization called Unbound realized this need
Government regulators believe that many financial advisors give bad advice about IRAs because the advisors have inherent conflicts. There has resulted in a stream of rules and regulations. The main concern of regulators is what happens to an individual’s 401(k) account after leaving a job. The regulators concluded that too many advisors recommended that the
Meredith Baer, CEO of her eponymous home staging company based in Los Angeles, California Meridith Baer Home Not many women can say they started their multi-million dollar business at age 50 fresh out of a divorce, but Meredith Baer is one of those women. At 71 years old, Baer is the CEO and founder of
Shares of Levi Strauss have come down to a level that is worth pulling the trigger, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. As of the close, the stock is down more than 23% from its $24.50 peak in mid-April. Earlier this month, the “Mad Money” host argued that the jean maker’s stock should not have climbed
Apple now has $210.6 billion cash on hand, according to the company’s fiscal third-quarter earnings report released on Tuesday. That’s a 6.6% decline from its fiscal second quarter of 2019, when it reported a cash pile of $225.4 billion. It’s down 13.6% from the year-ago quarter. Apple continues to host one of the largest cash
Apple CEO Tim Cook greets customers as they prepare to purchase a new iPhone X at an Apple Store on November 3, 2017 in Palo Alto, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Share of Apple rose more than 4% in after-hours trading after the tech giant reported
U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services | Handout | Reuters Jeffrey
Apple CEO Tim Cook Brendan McDermid | Reuters Wall Street analysts may be suffering from a bit of malaise when it comes to Apple. The company will reports its third quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday and analysts are advising clients to temper their expectations. Still, analysts and investors alike will be watching for
Ariel Skelley | DigitalVision | Getty Images The CFP Board of Standards, the group overseeing the Certified Financial Planner credential, will overhaul its practices, making it easier for investors to spot financial advisors with a questionable past. In a Tuesday afternoon phone call, the group announced it would establish an independent task force to review
It’s really kind of a morbid word, and if you Google “death cleaning,” your choices vary between services that you can hire to clean up after an “unattended death” and what people do to declutter their homes and parcel out their belongings to those they love before they die. Family Handyman Magazine’s Nick Gerhardt wrote