Is Retirement Dead? The Rise of the Encore Career

The “American Dream” of retirement – hang up the working clothes at 65 and hit the golf course – is becoming an impossible dream for many Americans who keep on working because they can’t afford to retire. But still others are choosing to delay or skip retirement...

Home Office Deductions: Get What’s Coming To You

Investing in income property brings with it a long list of tax deductions – benefits for homeowners that include repairs, maintenance and even travel. One of the most important deductions relating to investment property is the home office – yet it’s a write-off many...

Rent First, Buy Later: Retirees Test the Waters

The pool of people choosing to rent rather than buy a home is growing, driven by changes in some key demographic groups such as retirees and millennials. But there’s another kind of renter, seen both at home and in expatriate communities abroad: people –...

5 Traits of Successful Investors

Do you have what it takes to be a successful investor? There’s no shortage of guides attempting to define those key characteristics and behaviors that separate successful investors – those who build the financial future of their dreams – from those who never quite get...

JP Morgan Chase Faces Criminal and Civil Investigations

It’s been nearly five years since the housing market suffered its catastrophic collapse, and new mortgage fraud charges are still being filed against the big banks responsible for most of the disastrous subprime mortgages and the widespread foreclosure abuses that...