Practice Finance

High unemployment in your locale can put holes in your schedule. Here's how to cope.

Second marriages create unique circumstances. Maintaining separate checking accounts is perfectly acceptable.

These mysterious vehicles can yield nice profits for wealthy investors.

Planning for a split-up could mean the difference between poverty and solvency. Here's what to do.

For their sake as well as yours, you need to find out how prepared they are for a health crisis.

We explain some uncommon--and occasionally graphic--investment terms.

Our Continuing Survey lets you take a closer look at the costs of doing business, from automobiles to utilities.

There are better ways to make use of the money in the policy.

Hospitals are facing their own malpractice insurance squeeze. How will it affect you?

Often overlooked, these valuable deductions can reduce your tax bill, if you have enough of them.

We rank the critical factors when picking a mutual fund

Here's advice for cautious investors who want to edge back in.

People are not as logical as we assume when it comes to investing. In fact, our emotions may be costing us.

Do I have to repay it before I change jobs?

Few Wall Street veterans are as talented and outspoken as this fund manager. Here's how he chooses winning investments.

Some savings are automatic, but you can pile on others by using your ingenuity.

You can structure your savings accounts in different ways to make sure your money is insured against bank or brokerage failure.

These accounts aren't for everyone. Here are the pros and cons.

Despite their popularity, these financial products remain controversial. Here are the pros and cons.

With these strategies, you can help ensure that Uncle Sam doesn't get more than he's due.

These cautionary tales may spare you headaches and extra expense.

Stocks of power companies can produce a steady stream of cash in your golden years.

Basic financial Web sites on subjects from accountants to zero-coupon bonds.

How to get the most from your credit cards.

The practice--known as factoring--can just as easily put you in a financial jam as get you out of one.

Over the long term a stock's value isn't determined by market returns but by the company's operating performance.

The hidden hazards of having too much available credit.

Here's the first update on the stock picks our experts made, plus an introduction to the three physicians we've chosen to go head-to-head with the pros.

Expense division worksheet

Munis can be risky when the economy's rocky.