By Victoria Collins Being an avid investor for most of my life, I felt a bit of a thrill when the Dow powered through the 17,000 mark for...

By Victoria Collins, Ph.D., CFP You’ve heard it before – the old adage “Sell in May and stay away.” There are years it seems like good...

WISE - Blog for April 2014 by Victoria Collins, Ph.D., CFP Founder, Invest In Yourself and Co-Founder of WISE Skimming through my emails...

WISE - Blog for March 2014 by Victoria Collins, Ph.D., CFP Founder, Invest In Yourself and Co-Founder of WISE Three friends each put...

By Laurie Libby For many seniors the equity in their home is their largest single asset, yet it is unavailable to use unless they use a...

After several market plunges, some investors are saying that they don’t need nor want stocks. They want something safer - could they do...

The oft-cited “rule of thumb” is that a person can withdraw 4% off their portfolio for retirement income and not run out of money for...

Year-end tax planning is usually stressful, but this year is especially anything but ordinary. Unless Congress acts before December 31,...

We’ve all seen those graphs and charts that tell us how much of our hard-earned money we are supposed to be spending in each category of...