Janet Kidd Stewart

Can money actually save a marriage? We may fight over it incessantly, but research suggests money is a tie that binds us together, for better or worse. And as we...

Investors' enthusiasm for real estate is waning, a new survey suggests. Should we be scared or relieved? My money is on relieved, but more about that later. The Black Investor...

Are rich people stingier than the rest of us? Charity staged a bit of a comeback last year, but giving by the wealthiest Americans is still dramatically lower than during...

As we learn more about what makes investors tick, will it move them? Calling on financial advisers to take a closer accounting of how investors' mental errors can roil markets...

Fund supermarkets are giving away sophisticated financial planning services, and investors are pouring more money into low-cost index funds. Do you know what you're getting, and why? Let's start with...

Wall Street wants to delve deep inside the minds of Main Street investors. But will it use this powerful information for good? In a string of announcements this spring, the...

On top of the stress of exams and a bar review course this spring, 28-year-old Daniel Sweeney was under another kind of pressure. Sweeney, then a Duquesne University law student,...

Is there such a thing as fairness in love and alimony? The Mommy Wars are being played out in divorce court. Polling its members recently, the Institute for Divorce Financial...

Another brass ring is shifting. Not even two decades ago, a key marker of financial success was taking early retirement. And the earlier the better. Merger waves of the 1980s...

Seemingly small decisions over parking tabs and coupons add up over time, and they help form our thinking about even bigger time-value debates, like whether a family's second income is...