NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Several leading retail chains reported January same-store sales numbers Thursday that beat expectations, bolstering talk of a budding rebound at the nation's malls and ...

Absolutely. That's because different investment mixes are riskier than others, and your tolerance for risk decreases as you age. Stocks - which are shares of ownership in a corporation - provide ...

After AT&T broke up into “Baby Bells” in 1984, many of those spin-offs have since come back together. Source: AT&T, FCC, LA Times, Telecom Digest Credit: Jose Pagliery and Dominic Aratari ...

Any money you contribute from your paycheck is always 100% yours. But company matching funds usually vest over time - typically either 25% or 33% a year, or all at once after three or four years.

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Not far from the storied venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road, there’s a palatial estate where Masayoshi Son, Silicon Valley’s newest kingmaker, shapes the future. Reaching him requires ...

Obama administration outlines plans for more Arctic oil drilling, but says new leases won't be granted until 2016 to allow more time for studies. More ...

An equity-indexed annuity is a combination of a fixed and a variable annuity.The marketing pitch usually goes something like this: Equity-indexed annuities give you the best of both worlds ...

These days, Daymond John is best known as the impeccably dressed star investor of reality show Shark Tank, but his reputation -- and his millions -- were first made as the co-founder and chief ...

Activist hedge fund manager, Dan Loeb of Third Point, has a 6% stake in Sony, making him the Japanese company's largest shareholder. Now he wants to split it up. This is the letter he sent to Sony.

There are two basic types of trusts: living trusts and testamentary trusts. A living trust or an "inter-vivos" trust is set up during the person's lifetime. A Testamentary trust is set up in a ...

Dinner at Meredith Ackley’s house is like stepping into a dream. The walls are painted pink and purple. There’s a heated patio and arching branches over the backyard. The sun beams through the ...