Miranda Marquit, MBA, is a freelance contributor to Newsweek’s personal finance team. She has an M.A. in journalism from Syracuse University and has been writing and podcasting about money since 2006.

This article's mission is clear: to alert some investors to something that the masses of investing gurus and salespeople don't put in front of them. It's a mad, mad, mad world of constant information ...

A bond ladder is a portfolio of bonds that mature at intervals. You may want to use the money as an income source for retirement or to finance an ongoing project. Bonds lock in a fixed interest rate, ...

There's a benefit to putting money into a certificate of deposit (CD) over a savings account right now. The Federal Reserve has already lowered its benchmark interest rate once this year, and it's ...