Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Here is a list of four essential financial tasks you should complete before the end of the year.

The dire warnings of a future retirement apocalypse have not scared all Americans into frantically investing as much as possible for their retirements. Not everyone is on board the retirement savings train, a recent survey from the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards and the Consumer Federation of America has found. The 2012 Household Financial

This week, a new website launched to help manage your investments: SigFig.com. The site comes from the makers of the portfolio tracker, Wikinvest.

U.S. consumers know they should save for retirement, but “should save” doesn’t always translate into “do save,” according to a new telephone survey of 2,000 adults. Almost 90 percent of survey respondents agreed with a statement that people should start saving for retirement when they begin their first job and continue to save as long