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How to Shop for Life Insurance

You may be able to estimate how much you need online, but that’s just the start of your search.

PROFIT FROM TINY TECH STOCKS

Big-name leviathans have dominated the market, but the minnows may be catching up.

HEALTH CARE INFLATION MAY BE SLOWING

Health care spending in 2018 rose at a slower rate than spending in the overall economy, according to a recently released government study.

Picking Stocks? Your Brokerage Can Help

Online brokers have beefed up investor tools and research.

Beware the Roaring Twenties

It’s the new Roaring Twenties, so let’s call up an authentic voice from the last such era: Thorstein Veblen, an economist and social critic who coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption.”

SOME HEIRS COULD FACE A TAX SQUEEZE

IRA owners should review their estate plan as a new law puts an end to stretch IRAs.

Is A Debt Bomb Ticking?

Corporations have amassed a ton of debt. Protect yourself with these funds and ETFs.

‘Squeezed Between Two Giants'

Vietnam once looked like one of the few winners in the U.S.-China trade war. Now it’s bracing for trouble

Razing Roadblocks To Trade

Nyoni Nsukuzimbi drives his 40-ton Freightliner for just over half a day from Johannesburg to the Beitbridge border post with Zimbabwe.

Test-Drive Your Retirement

Before you quit your job, try out your new budget and your new lifestyle.

Invest in a Landmark

Go from sightseer to part-owner with these notable property stocks.

Make Time For A Retirement Checkup

One thing I’ve learned two-plus years into my retirement is that handling legal and financial affairs can be a full-time job.

Plan Now to Retire Worry-Free

Are you saving enough for retirement? Our 10 steps will help you finance the lifestyle you’ve always wanted.

Watch Out For The Elder Fraud Web

Scams range from petty theft to embezzlement. Your parents may need your help.

Squishy Science

Carbon offsets are a less than optimal way to reduce your carbon footprint.

Retirement Savings For The Self-Employed

If you don’t have access to a retirement plan through your employer, you have other options.

How To Run For Local Office

If you’ve ever thought that you could do a better job than the elected officials currently in office, here’s how to launch a campaign—and win.

Deutsche Bank's Crash Diet

Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing is slashing businesses in a bid to save the 150-year-old megabank

Two Views On A Wealth Tax

Will a U.S. wealth tax make the economy less dynamic? Or would it make Americans happier?

Mexico's Pemex Problem

National pride in the state-owned oil company helped elect a populist president. A year later, his plans for Pemex aren’t satisfying investors or citizens

Guo Shuqing Has The Toughest Job In Global Finance: Taming China's Gargantuan Banking System

WALKING A $40 TRILLION TIGHTROPE

Asymmetric Warfare

In a world where a keyboard can cause more damage than a gunship, a corporate cyber attack victim and its insurers have gone to court to figure out what’s covered and what’s not

Abu Dhabi's Moneyman

For an emirati who’s not a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling royal family, Khaldoon Al Mubarak is remarkably influential.

The World's Second-Largest Insurer Becomes a Tech Giant

Just 31 years after it was founded in China’s southern city of Shenzhen, Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. has grown into the world’s second-largest insurer by market value after Berkshire Hathaway Inc.—more valuable than Allianz SE and AIA Group Ltd. combined.

Money Moves To Make Now!

Among the items on our to-do list: Trim your 2019 tax bill by pruning your portfolio and giving to charity. Boost your retirement-plan contributions. Cash in credit card rewards. We also suggest moves that will boost your bottom line in 2020 and beyond.

Long-Term-Care Claims: Avoid The Obstacles

Filing a claim can be an ordeal, but these preventive measures will streamline the process.

5 Ways To Max Out Your Credit Card Rewards

Play your cards right and a first-class flight, luxe hotel suite or a pile of cash can be yours.

Our Favorite Dividend Stocks

These income-paying picks clobbered the broad market over the past 12 months.

Should Shareholders Share The Wealth?

Business leaders say firms should be accountable to customers and workers, and protect the environment, too.

It's Private Equity's World. That's A Big Deal

Private equity managers won the financial crisis. A decade since the world economy almost came apart, big banks are more heavily regulated and scrutinized. Hedge funds, which live on the volatility central banks have worked so hard to quash, have mostly lost their flair. But the firms once known as leveraged buyout shops are thriving. Almost everything that’s happened since 2008 has tilted in their favor. Low interest rates to finance deals? Check. A friendly political climate? Check. A long line of clients? Check. The PE industry, which runs funds that can invest outside public markets, has trillions of dollars in assets under management. In a world where bonds are paying next to nothing—and some have negative yields—many big investors are desperate for the higher returns PE managers seem to be able to squeeze from the markets. The business has made billionaires out of many of its founders. Funds have snapped up businesses from pet stores to doctors’ practices to newspapers. PE firms may also be deep into real estate, loans to businesses, and startup investments—but the heart of their craft is using debt to acquire companies and sell them later. In the best cases, PE managers can nurture failing or underperforming companies and set them up for faster growth, creating outsize returns for investors that include pension funds and universities. But having once operated on the comfortable margins of Wall Street, private equity is now facing tougher questions from politicians, regulators, and activists. One of PE’s superpowers is that it’s hard for outsiders to see and understand the industry, so we set out to shed light on some of the ways it’s changing finance and the economy itself.