Since family and friends are the primary reasons that people blow a lump sum, if you can invest in good quality relationships, you can go a long way toward maintaining financial success as well.

Before you start working towards your dreams, you need to ask a hard question: Are you a saver or a spender? If you are spender, you need to keep focused on saving enough to truly achieve the dreams and things you desire.

Watertown High School students are learning how to be more financially savvy. High school business teacher Robin M. Boomhower is teaching her student...

At first, I thought that the problem was people getting too much money too quickly. I assumed that controlling the flow of money, such as giving them monthly payments for a lifetime, would keep them in line. It's a little more complicated than that.

One of most folks' biggest goals is to reach the stage in life when you no longer have to work in order to pay the bills. The earlier you begin planning seriously to achieve this goal, the more quickly you'll reach it -- and the more money you'll have when you do.

By Linda Descano, CFA®, President and CEO, Women & Co. and Managing Director and Head of Digital Partnerships, North America Marketing, Citi We've a...

As parents, one of the most important lessons for us to teach our children is how to spend and save wisely. By sharing financial lessons with our kids starting at an early age, we can help them understand the importance of being financially responsible and self-sufficient for life.

To help addicts stay clean and sober, one prepaid card company is hoping to help them avoid a gateway drug: cash. A new card called Next Step, sch...

The "digital wallet" is the biggest game-changer in financial services since online banking. But what exactly is a digital wallet? Is it more convenient? Is it practical?

You should never rely on someone else to manage everything for you. Does this mean, now that I'm grown and married myself, that I regard my husband with perpetual skepticism, always under the assumption that he's about to take the money and run? Not at all.

I've been ruthless (but kind) when it comes to getting money that's owed to us. If you put your attention on making and finding money, you'll think of plenty you can do.