Adulting 101: Building Good Credit

Adulting 101: Building Good Credit

Your credit score affects more than just your ability to borrow money. Learning how to use credit responsibly is crucial to building a good credit history and keeping your credit score in a good range. Here are four tips to follow.

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The Value of Bonds

The Value of Bonds

I love to organize—papers, closets, financial lives, and anything else that I can get my hands on. To me, it’s exciting to take chaos and create order. Being an organizer, I’m also a chronic declutterer, always on the lookout for things I can get rid of.

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The Safe Withdrawal Rate

The Safe Withdrawal Rate

Most people want to enjoy their retirement—doing things and going places while they are still young enough to do them—all the while making sure they don’t spend their nest egg too quickly.

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Backdoor Roth IRA

Backdoor Roth IRA

Among the many provisions in the trillion-dollar-plus legislative package being debated in Congress is a provision to eliminate a strategy called the backdoor Roth IRA conversion.

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