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Dear Dave, I noticed that your Baby Steps list puts saving for retirement before saving for your kid’s college fund. Sending your kids to college would come first on the timeline, so what is your reasoning behind this? Jen Dear Jen, I advise this ap...

Readers have voted. The verdict is in. They want the Financial Review Series to run consecutively each week until done. Thank you all for your feedback, it is so greatly appreciated. Now, if you should become totally bored with these topic, please le...

New Year’s reckoning. It is time for your annual financial review. Yes, it is time-consuming. It may take you a day, a couple, a week, or a month to go through all your last year’s financial activities. Additionally, this is a good time, a traditiona...

(Bloomberg) — Financial pros have a long history of sneering at mom and pop investors as “the dumb money,” all the while cashing in on commissions each time a sucker sells at the bottom or buys at the top. Now the US. Securities and Exchange Commissi...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — It's time to watch Washington to see just how bad your New Year's Eve is going to be. Without any action in the Capitol, the US economy is said to be poised to fall off of a "fiscal cliff." Projected increases in taxes and cuts...

Latin America might be a good place to invest some of your money to get double-digit returns over the next decade. That is the view of HSBC’s Pedro Bastos, an expert on the region’s economy who was in Hamilton yesterday to give an investor presentati...

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has added his name to the long list of people who believe we should measure prosperity in terms of happiness and life satisfaction, instead of just dollars and data. In a recent speech before a group of internati...

Is a new generation learning to leave stocks alone through the painful education of losing hard earned money? On Friday, May 19, a new star entered the US stock market galaxy. The Facebook IPO supernova, saw the NASDAQ exchange malfunction due to th...

In the first of a four-part series on understanding the global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, Bermuda Commercial Bank treasurer Dane Commissiong looks at the roots of the crisis. Part 1 The Illusion of Prosperity To even the casual obse...