Family finances

Investors are thinking about Social Security income the wrong way

Based on a lot of the recent dire headlines, many Americans may have come to think of Social Security as…

Term life insurance is often best, financial advisors say — but most people buy another kind

There are two broad categories of life insurance, and data suggests many households aren’t buying the most cost-effective one. Americans…

Why Charles Schwab became a financial ‘supermarket’

Charles Schwab Corp. is the largest publicly traded brokerage business in the United States with $7.5 trillion of client assets,…