Only 6 in 10 boomers report having any retirement savings at all, according to a survey by the Insured Retirement Institute. How can you avoid a similar fate? Experts agree that planning is the key to financial security in retirement.

Knowing your credit score is the first step toward taking charge of your financial future. Whether your concern is maintaining good credit or remediating bad credit, you need to start by knowing your score and understanding how it can affect you.

It’s hard to imagine life without the convenience of an ATM, but you’re taking a risk whenever you use one. Here are some tips to help keep you safe.

We learn all sorts of the things in school — geography, history, algebra and countless other subjects we may or may not have actually put to use. We’ve rounded up the best money tips we could find, and we think a few of them may surprise you.

Being a conscious consumer can help you to save money and time shopping for groceries, whether or not you have a budget calculator. For more information on how to save money and pay off debt, visit www.usequityadvantage.com.

Labor day doesn't have to be expensive. Learn about free activities to spend your day doing. Even the library and heading to the park can be unexpectedly fun.

Good news. The U.S. economy is improving. Nearly 3 million jobs were added in 2014 while the unemployment rate closed the year at 5.6 percent. In addition, consumer confidence is returning. How do we know? Well, that’s the bad news.

So you’d love a new set of wheels, but your credit score is a clunker. Don’t despair — there are things you can do to help put the odds more in your favor at the dealership when trying to get an auto loan with bad credit.

Eighty percent of Americans are paid biweekly. Why, then, is it so common to budget on a month-to-month basis? Matching payments to paychecks with biweekly loan payments can make fulfilling all of your financial obligations easier and much less time consuming.

America has a credit card problem. Credit cards are the third leading form of debt in the U.S., after student and home loans. Just as the national credit card debt has quintupled since the 1980s, so too can a small balance become a very large one if you’re only making minimum monthly payments.