How Generation Hexed Can Overcome Its Fear of Investing

Be an Anglophile and adopt this British investing approach to ease young investors into stocks.

Investing Lessons from the Great Recession

It's not that the rules changed. It's more that strategies for long-term growth have always been riskier than we like to think.

Why Your Credit-Card Debt Won't Die

We tend to pay off the card with the smallest balance first, regardless of the interest rate.

7 Tips to Be a Better Investor

Be a DIY investor with stocks, bonds, funds and ETFs.

A Guide to Understanding How Your Brain Works

This book on how our minds’ intuitive and logical parts work together can help us recognize investing mistakes.

Angst Over Annuities

Giving up a lump sum in favor of a series of payments may wreak havoc with our mental accounts.

Pimco's Total Return ETF:
Walk, Don't Run

The forthcoming exchange-traded fund is getting lots of buzz, but will it be able to stand up to the hype?

Tightwads and Spendthrifts

Both of these extreme spending personalities suffer pain and guilt when faced with opening up their wallets. Here's how you can strike a better balance.

Can Money Make You Happy?

The relationship between happiness and income can be summed up in a simple equation, but really, it's complicated.

Improve Your Investing Decisions By Ignoring Short-Term Predictions

Believing in the illusion of control, or the ability to forecast the future, can cause overconfidence in investors and harm to your portfolio.

Your Job Should Drive Your Savings Plan

Focus on your income prospects first. That will inform your investment strategy best.

How to Be a Better Investor

Step one: Recognize -- and overcome -- the psychological hurdles that influence our behavior.

How to Build a Better Portfolio

The key to successful investing is in how you divvy your assets between U.S. stocks, foreign stocks, bonds, cash and other types of investments.

Fundamental Advice for Weathering Market Volatility

Financial advice that sounds simple is often difficult to execute because of our mental baggage.

Great Advice From Around the Web

A weekly look at personal finance tips and insights others are offering.

Sex Drives Spending

Don't let tricky marketing ploys influence your financial decisions and get you to spend more.

Learn to Control Your Fear and Profit from Crisis

In times of panic, shrewd investors may find an opportunity to buy stocks on sale.

Why Value Investing Is Hard

Successful bargain hunters must brave going against the crowd and, at times, looking foolish.

Investing Lessons for Generation Y

Young investors can learn a lot from the market's recent volatility.

How Media Excess Can Mess With Your Wealth

Don't let an inundation of news scare you away from your long-term investing strategy.

When You Build a Portfolio, Less Is More

We tend to make the best investing choices when we're given fewer options.

Are You a Gambler or an Investor?

If you treat your portfolio as a gambling stake instead of a nest egg, the consequences can be dramatic. See where you fall on the investor-gambler spectrum.

How Aging Imperils Your Finances

As we grow older, our ability to make sound financial decisions degrades, but if we prepare, we can maintain healthy finances well into old age.

Fund Managers Reveal 6 Traits of a Good Investor

Learn the pros' secrets to successful investing.

Why We Fall for Scams

How Ignoring Mr. Market's Mood Swings Can Increase Your Wealth

Don't take on more risk just because the market's rising.

How Investor Psychology Can Help You Win Your NCAA Tournament Pool

Improve your odds of winning by overcoming mental glitches.

How to Cope with Your Confirmation Bias

We naturally tend to seek out others with similar opinions, but this phenomenon can be harmful to our portfolios.

The Feminine Edge

During the depths of the market crash, women were less likely than men to cut and run from stocks.

How to Beat Our Status-Quo Bias

We can improve our ability to make investing decisions by procrastinating a bit, focusing on fewer options and settling for good enough.

Mental Accounting: How Math Mind Games Bust Our Budgets

Learn how to benefit from the psychological phenomenon that makes us think of our money as divided into separate accounts.

Make Money Off Mixed Market Messages

Investors torn between wanting safety and craving yield have created a market filled with wonderful opportunities both to own stocks and sell them short.

Bad News on Earnings? Be More Skeptical

In something of a surprise, a study shows positive earnings forecasts from companies are more reliable.

Rebalance Regularly to Minimize the Danger of the Next Bubble

Don't let a hot asset tempt you away from your investing strategy and into a bubble bath.

Know When to Bail On Your Stock Picks

Use our tips to improve your chances of selling stocks successfully.

How to Beat Our Investing Biases

Admitting to our prejudices as investors is the first step to overcoming them.

How Biases Affect Your Portfolio

Minimize your money-related mistakes by learning about the investing biases rooted in your experiences, background, culture, and gender.

The Zen of Investing

Meditate on your portfolio to see the big picture and the small details.

Profit By Betting Against the Crowd

Investor-sentiment measures can tip you to rallies and corrections. Here are the ones to watch and how to exploit them.

Investors, Beware the Pitfalls of Too Much Information

You may think you're taking in a stream of financial facts, but there's no way you can absorb everything at once.