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14 important personal finance dates to mark on your calendar 09/28/2016 08:00pm • Mark your calendar. Staying on top of deadlines is a crucial part of managing your money. Read on for the key money dates to watch out for each year. January 1 Thinking of boosting your retirement savings? This day is the first to fund traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs and SEP IRAs (for self-empl 5 Things to Know When Buying an Annuity 09/28/2016 08:00pm • One of the unnerving aspects of retiring is no longer having income from a job and needing to live on investments and Social Security. With fewer companies offering pensions, one option for guaranteed income is an annuity. These products can be good for retirees who want some reassurance for monthl College Road Trip: Colorado College 09/28/2016 08:00pm • Colorado College, or CC, may be best known for its Block Plan, a curriculum that involves taking just one class at a time. Blocks run three-and-a-half weeks; students take eight blocks a year and need 32 to graduate. It was this arrangement plus the beautiful location at the foothills of 14,115-foot In Central Europe, a Nationalist Turn to the Right 09/28/2016 08:00pm • PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Recently, a group of 20 people gathered at a shady corner outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in the Czech capital, preparing to stage a particularly controversial brand of protest. Several in the group wrapped scarves and pillowcases around their heads in mockery of the tra Managing the High Cost of a Chronic Health Condition 09/27/2016 08:00pm • According to the 2012 National Health Interview Survey, roughly 117 million U.S. adults have at least one chronic health condition such as diabetes, hypertension or cancer. And a quarter of adults have multiple chronic conditions. Even with health insurance options, Americans living with a chronic Donald Trump Suggests China, Iran Should Solve North Korean Crisis 09/26/2016 08:00pm • During Monday's debate, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sounded a lot like Defense Secretary Ash Carter, using bellicose language to call for a increased Chinese role in resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis. "I think that once the nuclear alternative happens, it's over," Trump said Should a Part-Time Job Be Part of a Retirement Plan? 09/26/2016 08:00pm • The traditional face of retirement continues to change. No longer can the average worker count on a defined pension plan to fund retirement. Social Security is estimated to become insolvent in 2034, and surveys show many workers are not saving enough on their own. Beyond that, people are living lon How much life insurance do you really need? 09/26/2016 06:00am • Kyle Winkfield knows a thing or two about how life insurance has the power to change lives. The managing partner at financial firm O'Dell, Winkfield, Roseman and Shipp in the District of Columbia has seen how life insurance payouts have impacted many of his clients, but one particular case sticks ou Terrorism and ���the unknown��� keep top FBI official in DC awake at night 09/26/2016 05:08am • WASHINGTON ��� Twenty-year-old Ardit Ferizi will likely spend most of his next 20 years in federal prison. The Kosovo native was sentenced by a court in Northern Virginia on Friday for hacking into a ���protected��� computer, extracting and providing more than 1,300 names of government and milita Deep South College Road Trip: Xavier University of Louisiana 09/25/2016 08:00pm • Bright green roofs top many of the buildings at Xavier University of Louisiana, marking the rebuilding that's been going on since Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans a decade ago. Founded in 1915 as a high school for Native Americans and African-Americans, XULA is today the country's only Ca How to Cope With 3 Common Retirement Emergencies 09/25/2016 08:00pm • Most people pay for retirement using a combination of their Social Security income and withdrawals from personal savings. Retirees learn to live on this typically modest fixed income. But a significant home repair or large health care cost can disrupt your spending plan, perhaps even causing you to 13 Tips for Singles Nearing Retirement 09/25/2016 08:00pm • Making plans.If you're single and about to retire, you're about to join 20 million other unmarried retirees in the U.S. who have different concerns than married folk, and need different considerations when planning retirement. Some singles are divorced, separated and never married, but most, (11 mil How to Give to Charity and Pay Less in Taxes 09/25/2016 08:00pm • What could be better than having more retirement money than you need? How about being able to give it to charity tax-free? For the lucky investor who has amassed excess funds for old age, this option became permanent under a law signed by President Barack Obama in 2015. Previously, Congress approve Is 4 Percent Still the Safest Retirement Amount? 09/25/2016 08:00pm • One of Wall Street's most rock-solid tenets is increasingly coming under scrutiny, if not outright attack, from industry insiders. That would be the once-venerated 4 percent annual retirement drawdown, which is something of a staple in the financial planning industry. But now, more financial expert Many women will be single in retirement. Are you ready? 09/24/2016 08:00pm • Regardless of whether they were married earlier in life, many women will be single at some point during their retirement years. Over half (54 percent) of women age 65 and older were single in 2014, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Those women may have always been single or may be widowed or div