The cost of education is ever increasing, and it is seemingly impossible to go to school without the help of some financial aid. Luckily, with the increase in people going back to school to increase their job skills and income, free student scholarships have become widely available. Financial aid is not just offered by your [...]

For those of you not using Mint.com as a tool to help you manage your money and make it incredibly easy to automate your financial planning, you’re missing out. With already a million users, this completely free service is helping people pay off debt, save money, and get on the right path. According to some [...]

Mint.com has quickly become the hippest personal finance management website. In some ways Mint competes with Mvelopes, the online budgeting program that helps you to allocate your money before you spend it, but Mint does a bit more. It makes managing your money fun while taking almost all of the work out of it. In [...]

Risk measurement calculators can be a fantastic tool. You take a quick survey that makes you reflect on how you would feel or react to certain market conditions, and the risk measurement genie tells you exactly how to invest your money.
But risk measurement calculators are only a great tool, if only they produced realistic results.
The [...]

Do you continue to procrastinate on putting a budget together because it just seems too daunting or boring? Or is it just taking up too much time? You know if you want to accumulate more wealth you need to pull the bills and bank statements out and start crunching numbers. Or you can use personal [...]

Creating and sticking to a budget is one of the key ingredients to building wealth. In order to set aside enough money each month to invest and reach your financial goals, you need to understand your cash flow – or your income and expenses.
By creating and analyzing a personal income statement you can find inefficiencies [...]