Janet Kidd Stewart

When it comes to lost money, do you flee or fight? Loading grocery bags into my cart at the checkout lane recently, I noticed too late the clerk forgot to...

Is thinness waning as a status symbol? Extra girth went from a Victorian mark of power to a moniker of the lower class in the 20th Century, and it has...

Wealthy investors are looking through rose-colored rear-view mirrors, a new survey finds. Northern Trust polled 1,235 millionaires, with investments worth a combined $7.3 billion, and found 40 percent expect their...

When it comes to money, why can't a man be more like a woman? Women investors make fewer mistakes, a recent Merrill Lynch Investment Managers telephone survey of 1,000 investors...

In the blurry turf wars between financial advisers and stockbrokers, investors are often urged to follow the fiduciary duty, a sort of yellow brick road that leads us to a...

If greed is passe, why are so many people still trying to look rich? Money magazine this month launched a major redesign, promising a shift in focus from hot stock...

Are you parenting a silver-spoon kid on a stainless-steel budget? Help is on the way. Psychologist Eileen Gallo and attorney Jon Gallo, authors of a popular 2001 book about rearing...

Faced with job loss, would you circle the wagons or hit the road? Laid off in November from a professional credentialing association in a downsizing wave, Michael Herndon spent nearly...

Scandals matter to investors, or so we want to believe. And yet there is so much evidence to the contrary. On the same day in March that former WorldCom Inc....

Trying to fashion a road map for retirement? Good luck with that. Just about every aspect of retirement planning is full of unknowns: Social Security insolvency estimates and reform proposals...