How Smart Is Your Gifting Strategy? Take Our Grandparents' Legacy Quiz Are you maximizing the legacy you’ll leave behind? Take our 10-question quiz to evaluate your strategy today. Kiplinger · Apr 29
If You'd Put $1,000 Into Chipotle Mexican Grill Stock 20 Years Ago, Here's What You'd Have Today CMG stock clobbers the market over the past two decades, but its outperformance ends there. Kiplinger · Apr 29
A Once-in-a-Lifetime Summer: 9 Historic Trips to Take With Your Grandkids for America’s 250th Create once-in-a-lifetime memories with your grandchildren while celebrating America’s 250th Kiplinger · Apr 29
3 Steps to Take With Your Credit Cards When You Start to Divorce Divorce does not separate credit card debt. Here is what can follow you and how to protect your credit. Kiplinger · Apr 29
How to Open a Custodial Roth IRA: A Guide for Grandparents Time is a young investor’s greatest asset. Discover how small contributions today can evolve into a tax-free fortune by the time they retire. Kiplinger · Apr 29
Should You Relocate to a New State for Retirement? The Ultimate Checklist for Those With a Pension and $1 Million-Plus The decision to move to a different state should balance financial issues with the lifestyle you want, rather than simply choosing a low-income-tax state. Kiplinger · Apr 29
I'm a Financial Planner: These 4 Spending Mistakes Can Derail Your Retirement Plan Many plans focus on how much has been saved, but it's how much you spend that ultimately determines whether your plan works. Kiplinger · Apr 29
Changing Jobs and Tempted to Cash Out Your 401(k)? Read This First (Future You Will Thank You) Many workers find it easier to leave 401(k)s behind when they move to a new job, or cash out small balances that are better left invested, but you have options. Kiplinger · Apr 29
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Nasdaq Nosedives as OpenAI Is Off Target: Stock Market Today With the Magnificent 7 all over the earnings calendar this week, a privately held company has a lot of publicly traded stocks under the microscope. Kiplinger · Apr 28
April 30 Deadline: If You Live in One of These 'Late States,' Your Taxes Are Due This Week Residents in Delaware, Iowa, Virginia, and beyond must file 2025 state income taxes soon or request an extension. Don't miss the due date. Kiplinger · Apr 28
The Average Millennial 401(k) Balance is Not 'Superbad' Millennials may not have saved enough for retirement, but how bad can it be if your fake ID name is "McLovin"? Kiplinger · Apr 28
The 9% Solution: An Expert Guide to Retirement Tax Breaks That Could Cut Your Tax Rate Nearly in Half Incorporating housing wealth and lifetime annuities in your retirement income plan can offer a significant tax-cost advantage over an investment-only plan. Kiplinger · Apr 28
Giving Gamechanger: Why Now's the Time to Use a Donor-Advised Fund A donor-advised fund can help you make the biggest impact on your chosen causes while remaining tax efficient in light of market gains and OBBBA tax changes. Kiplinger · Apr 28
Kiplinger · Apr 28 If You're Considering Law School, This History Lesson Is for You AI is transforming the legal profession, potentially leading to an employment crisis for law school graduates. What can they do?
Kiplinger · Apr 27 April Fed Meeting: Updates and Commentary The April Fed meeting was Jerome Powell's last as chair of the central bank, but he's not leaving the central bank just yet.
Kiplinger · Apr 27 Nasdaq Notches Another New All-Time High: Stock Market Today Two of the three main U.S. equity indexes hit new all-time highs at the start of a big week for earnings and interest rates.
Kiplinger · Apr 27 9 Ways To Save on Your Next Luxury Trip Looking for ways to stretch your retirement dollars? Follow these tips to get a deal on your next vacation.
Kiplinger · Apr 27 10 Things You Should Know About Oil and Prices Oil rocks the price of just about everything that touches your life, from food to investments to gas and beyond.
Kiplinger · Apr 27 Your Stock Portfolio Just Got Hammered: Here's a Tax-Smart Way to Recover If your stock portfolio took a beating this spring, there's a little-known tax strategy that lets you defer — and potentially eliminate — capital gains taxes.
Kiplinger · Apr 27 Feeling a Tax Bite? Municipal Bonds Could Be More Compelling Than You Think If you just wrote a check to the IRS, that could be a reminder that today's municipal bond market may offer better after-tax outcomes than you might expect.
Kiplinger · Apr 26 2026 Changes to Student Loans You Need to Know Changes that take effect this summer will reshape how students and parents borrow and repay their federal loans.
Kiplinger · Apr 26 We Are 65 With $2.6 Million. One of Our Two Daughters Struggles Financially. Is It Fair if We Only Help Her? We want all our grandkids to have a great childhood. How do we help their mother, our needier child, without creating resentment?
Kiplinger · Apr 26 I'm a Financial Planner: If You're a Wealthy Retiree Who Ignores These 3 Retirement To-Dos, You're Courting Significant Financial Risk Overlooking these three important, albeit boring, tasks could have disastrous consequences for the retirement savings you've worked so hard to accumulate.
Kiplinger · Apr 26 Is Lifestyle Creep Delaying Your Retirement Timeline? Here's How to Enjoy Life Now Without Paying for It Later, From a Financial Planner Lifestyle creep can quietly influence long‑term financial security. Here's how to check in on your spending and realign with your goals.