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© fizkes / Shutterstock.com The call came on a Tuesday. She was 61, three weeks from her 25th anniversary at the company, and by Friday she was carrying a cardboard box to her car. That night, she logged into her my Social Security account, pulled up her statement, and saw a benefit figure that felt…

If you collect Social Security, you may be painfully aware that this year’s 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) isn’t cutting it. Inflation has been soaring since the Middle East conflict erupted. And now, your monthly benefits may not be keeping up with your costs. That’s the unfortunate thing about Social Security COLAs. Even though they’re meant…

Wait as long as possible. That’s the advice that most financial advisors will give you about when to claim Social Security retirement benefits. They will tell you to hold off at least until your full retirement age, or even better, delay until you reach age 70. The reasoning makes sense. If you begin collecting Social…

If you’re using an exchange-traded fund (ETF) to build wealth, you may be among the many who leave value on the table in how you select, trade, and use your ETF. Here, we’ll cover a few strategic adjustments to help you gain more diversification, efficiency, and long-term growth from the ETFs already in your portfolio.…

The S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.42%) is up by more than 10% over the last three months alone, as of this writing — its most successful quarter in years. But it’s also a historically expensive time to invest, and some metrics are sounding the alarm over the market’s valuation. For example, the Buffett indicator — named…

Framework details Addressing liquidity mismatches The revised framework also allows mutual funds to use intraday borrowings for pay-in obligations on scheme investments, mark-to-market (MTM) obligations, foreign exchange settlements, and repayment of existing borrowings. The move is aimed at addressing liquidity mismatches due to differences in market settlement timings. To facilitate this, mutual funds can borrow…

Mutual funds: Large & Mid Cap Funds are emerging as an attractive investment option as improving earnings, reasonable valuations and the recent market correction create favourable conditions for long-term investors, according to an internal study by Abakkus Mutual Fund. The study noted that while corporate earnings across large and mid-cap companies have continued to improve,…

Warren Buffett served as the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA 0.17%)(BRKB 0.33%) from 1965 to 2025, growing it into a $1 trillion conglomerate with numerous wholly owned subsidiaries and a portfolio of stocks and securities that is today worth about $347 billion. Buffett continues to serve as Berkshire’s chairman, but his chosen successor, Greg Abel,…

Few things are harder than watching savings disappear one trade at a time. Options can deliver eye-popping gains, but they can also wipe out years of hard work in a matter of days when a trade moves …

Investors came into July expecting a familiar stock market setup leaning on resilient earnings and AI spending, along with a seasonal stretch favoring equities. Though Morgan Stanley doesn’t feel that setup has gone away, it warns of a much narrower margin for error. There’s a major $1.2 trillion question hanging over Big Tech’s AI buildout.…