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How to Utilize Your Relationship with Money

Are you utilizing your relationship with money to your advantage? Here's how you can turn even your negative money emotions into positive financial habits.

How to Reduce Your Liability After Your Rental Car Accident?

Kevin Mercadante

How to Reduce Your Liability After Your Rental Car Accident?

Learn about the different options that are available if you get into...

How Your Credit Score is Affected When Rate-Shopping for New Loans

Thomas (TJ) Porter

How Your Credit Score is Affected When Rate-Shopping for New Loans

Learn how the practice of rate-shopping affects your credit score when you're...

Should You Use a HELOC to Consolidate Debt?

Learn how you can use a home equity line of credit (HELOC) to consolidate high interest debt and compare it to other debt consolidation options.

FHA 203(k) Loan: When Does It Make Sense?

Learn how FHA 203(k) loans work for homeowners who need to borrow to pay for a home renovation, repair, or construction project.

Valencia Patrice Higuera

The Best Ways to Insure Expensive Jewelry and Valuable Items

Kevin Mercadante

The Best Ways to Insure Expensive Jewelry and Valuable Items

Find out about the different ways that you can insure expensive jewelry...

Can Student Loans Be Discharged in Bankruptcy?

Can Student Loans Be Discharged in Bankruptcy?

Find out whether your student loan debt can be discharged in the...

How the Rising Interest Rates on Student Loans Affect Young Borrowers

See how the federal student loan interest rates changed for college student borrowers who took out a loan from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019.

How to Create a Student Loan Debt Payoff Plan

Knowing how to pay off your student loan debt is just the first step. Learn how to create plan and stick to it so you can be debt free.

Claire Murdough

Comprehensive Guide to Student Loan Forgiveness Programs

Comprehensive Guide to Student Loan Forgiveness Programs

Learn about all the different student loan forgiveness programs that are available...

What You Should Do During Your Student Loan Grace Period

What You Should Do During Your Student Loan Grace Period

Learn about the steps you can take during your student loan's grace...

What Are Interest-Only Repayment Plans for Student Loans?

Learn how interest-only repayment plans work when it comes to student loan and find out if it is the right way for you to manage student loan debt.

4 Popular Tactics to Pay Off Private Student Loans Compared

There are plenty of ways to pay student loans. MyBankTracker breaks down 4 of the most popular methods to see how effective they really are.

Have You Switched Jobs? What You Should Do With Your Old 401(k)s

Thomas (TJ) Porter

Have You Switched Jobs? What You Should Do With Your Old 401(k)s

Learn the different ways that you can move the retirement funds into...

Should You Split Contributions Between Traditional and Roth 401(k)s?

Valencia Patrice Higuera

Should You Split Contributions Between Traditional and Roth 401(k)s?

Find out if you should consider making contributions that are split between...

Raised 401(k) Distribution and Loan Limits Amid Coronavirus

FInd out if you should take advantage of the raised 401(k) distribution and loan limits in search of financial relief to survive the coronavirus pandemic.

Profit-Sharing Plans: How Do They Work?

Learn how profit sharing plans can help small business owners recruit and retain top talent while bolstering employees’ retirement funds.

Kathryn Tretina

Mega Backdoor Roth IRA: How It Works Step by Step

Mega Backdoor Roth IRA: How It Works Step by Step

Learn how a mega backdoor Roth IRA can help boost retirement savings...

Variable Annuities: How Do They Work?

Variable Annuities: How Do They Work?

Learn how variable annuities work to provide retirement income based on the...

Indexed Annuities: Comparing the Pros and Cons

Learn how indexed annuities work to provide retirement income that is based on the performance of stock market indices, including the pros and cons to consider.

Are You Too Old to Open and Contribute to a Roth IRA?

Find out if you're too old to open a Roth IRA for retirement savings contributions, including the age rules and income limits that may apply.

Kevin Mercadante

Fixed Annuities: How Do They Work?

Fixed Annuities: How Do They Work?

Learn how fixed annuities work for seniors who seek guaranteed retirement income,...

Roth IRA Conversion Ladder: Get More Tax-Free Income in Retirement

Kevin Mercadante

Roth IRA Conversion Ladder: Get More Tax-Free Income in Retirement

Learn how to create a Roth IRA conversion ladder to consolidate funds...

How to Convert a Traditional IRA to a Roth IRA

Use this step-by-step process to convert a traditional IRA to an Roth IRA. Find out when it makes sense for you to switch the type of individual retirement account. Learn how this change will affect your tax situation, including what...

Thomas (TJ) Porter

What Age is Best for You to Take Social Security Benefits?

Learn what you should consider when you're thinking about taking Social Security benefits upon retirement, including factors such as age, lifestyle, and income.

5 Money Mistakes New Parents Make

5 Money Mistakes New Parents Make

For new parents, having a child is an overwhelming experience. It's also...

5 Ways to Build Long-Term Savings With These Money-Saving Tips

Shirley Pulawski

5 Ways to Build Long-Term Savings With These Money-Saving Tips

Find out where you can cut down on expenses and debt so...

The Financial Planning Guide for Parents With Special Needs Children

Find out who parents can plan, financially, for their special needs child--including savings, health insurance, life insurance, and estate planning.

How to Prevent Your Money Mindset from Holding You Back

Discover which money management mindset you‘re in and how to overcome its challenges. Your current mindset could be preventing you from reaching financial success.

Melanie Lockert

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