Topic: Personal Budgeting

MyRichUncle is Out of Cash

MyRichUncle was an intriguing startup student loan company with an innovative, white-knight approach when I wrote about them in the 2006 Fast Company 50. When I talked to them, the two 20-something founders seemed cocky, but sincere. ...READ»

Money Matters

A San Francisco startup offers a service for reducing workplace stress that concentrates on head, heart, and hedge funds. Learn how Financial Finesse teaches employees to take control of their money -- and their lives.READ»

Financial Aid

Mark Kantrowitz knows all the tricks when it comes to increasing your family's share of federal student aid.READ»

Data Mining the Mint.com Demographic

Mint is already aggregating data from its 1.5 million users and mining it for personal spending trends. Now the newly-acquired company is planning to sell that data on a case-by-case basis.READ»

Financial 2.0 Services Growing, Cocky: "Banks Are Evil" Proclaims Mint CEO

    People around the world are radically changing their attitudes towards saving and spending, and alternative financial services sites are reaping the benefits. That was the message from the young ...READ»

Financial Leadership and Collective Thinking

As a business owner how many times have you experienced an increase in company profit followed by a sudden request for additional expenditures from one or more of your organizational divisions? The underlying reason for this is the people that staff your company will always tend toward spending every dollar that comes through the door. You may even have this tendency yourself. This is the biggest reason why small business owners are in need of financing at this time. It’s time to save America!READ»

Andrew Henderson

College: UC Berkeley Major: Economics Hometown: Sacramento, California Age: 23 First Job: Associate for Brown-Simpson Asset Management in Palo Alto, California. "It's a catch-all position. It's a small office, so I'm doing everything ...READ»

How's Your Emergency Fund?

Living in California, I have grown used to the idea of keeping an "emergency kit" in the event of an earthquake. It makes sense to have water, canned food, flashlights, spare clothes and cash on hand to carry you through a ...READ»

Pay by Finger

This just in from FC's Charles Fishman: Lowes Foods, which operates 108 bright, expansive grocery stores in the southeast U.S., confirmed to the Raleigh News & Observer today that it will soon offer payment using a fingerprint ...READ»

Diversify is the watchcry for business communicators in 2009

If I were a financial planner do you think I’d counsel you to invest all your money in one company’s stock? Let’s hope not. Just as financial planners teach principles of diversification—and in these times, even mitigation ...READ»

Fast 50 2008: Omniture

The list of indignities we suffer online every day is significant. Our bank hits us up for a high-yield checking account … while we’re in our high-yield checking account. We have to navigate four levels deep at our favorite ...READ»

Easy Money: Mint.com CEO Aaron Patzer is Merging Personal Finance with Web 2.0

Aaron Patzer is taking on Quicken by merging personal finance with Web 2.0. Can he get twentysomethings to be smart with their cash? READ»

Fast 50 2008: Omniture

The list of indignities we suffer online every day is significant. Our bank hits us up for a high-yield checking account ... while we're in our high-yield checking account. We have to navigate four levels deep at our favorite sites ...READ»

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How Much Utah Life Insurance Do You Need?

If you have a family that's dependent on your income, then you need Utah life insurance.READ»

For-Profit Colleges and the Student-Loan-Default Gap

The Student-Loan-Default GapREAD»

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About Hennion and Walsh

Hennion & Walsh was founded in 1990 with a single goal in mind: to become the nation’s premier provider of investment services to and advocate for individual investors. As such, our disciplined, personalized approach has helped thousands of individuals grow and protect their investments. Hennion & Walsh’s heritage is being one of the nation’s leading independent specialists in municipal bonds for individual investors, but we offer a full suite of equity and fixed-income products and services including wealth management.READ»

Mint's Founder Gets Control of Intuit's Personal Finance Division

Yesterday, we reported that popular personal finance site Mint.com would be sold to Intuit for $170 million, just a few weeks after Founder and CEO Aaron Patzer closed a fresh $14 million round of "preemptive" funding. "We could have ...READ»

I Want my Bud.TV

Last week I read that Anheuser-Busch will launch its own Web entertainment network, Bud.TV, in February. Instead of spending money on loads of advertising next year, the brewer will launch an online network aimed at the 21 to 27 ...READ»

NetWork 7

The resolve you need to clean up your life.READ»

Sunday, April 19, 2009 Cocaine, Pot, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide...All together now

f it is going to be legal in Orgeon the Hemlock Society (I’ve read their foundation’s material), can legally offer drugs assisting persons’ in taking their own lives, and, the drug recipes thereof implicit for cooking up ones’ own suicide, why ought cocaine and pot be illegal in Oregon then (?) I want to know lawmakers (please); this comment doubly applies to all you left leaning liberals considering the idea of instituting the idea into law in other states in America. READ»

Education: When Business and Education Collide -- The Good, Bad, and the Ugly

Recent grads entering the workforce have gotten accustomed to hearing bad news about their prospects with increasing frequency. The rising costs of higher education means graduates pay for college much longer than four years. Young ...READ»

Think of Change as the Constant - Not the Variable...

 Now Online...www.financialconservation.comThere has been for some time a disconnect between the financial markets and the real economy which they are suppose to reflect.An infinite amount of resource and focus is given, from the ...READ»

Scammers pretending to give your stimulus check--Nasty!

Watch out for these snakes! Some people have no ethics at all. I got an email this morning that purported to be from the IRS. The subject was “2008 Economic Stimulus Refund. [Scanned]” And it started like ...READ»

Next-Gen Investing

Giants like Fidelity and hot startups such as Thrive are developing new technologies to soothe bewildered investors.READ»

• Infographic: America's Financial Dashboard