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Why the outlook is positive for dividend-centric strategies

With volatility making a return, many investors are taking a step back and reassessing their positions

What Will Win the Next 5 Years in Financial Services?

To keep up with potentially disruptive competitors, financial firms must embrace connected data and planning.

Finding Stable Dividends in a Rough Market

In a world of slowing dividend growth and potentially rising interest rates, your dividend investing strategy may need some tweaks.

Here's the best financial advice the country's top advisors ever got

Financial advisors need money tips, too. In fact, sometimes a salient piece of advice led them into the industry. We asked advisors from firms that made the FA 100 list for 2019 for the best money and investing advice tips they ever received.

10 Financial Decisions That Will Haunt You Forever

There's a big difference between making an impulse purchase and making a major decision about your money that could haunt you for a lifetime.

How to Build Better Retirement Plans

Three experts from Morningstar offer their ideas on how to increase retirement savings.

Why Financial Wellness Programs Are Not Well

There's a big disconnect between what employees need and what employers offer

Frustrated buyers should consider a fixer-upper mortgage

The New American Starter Home

A cruel housing market is the mother of invention.

Buyers Overestimate Mortgage Requirements

Many consumers have misperceptions about the credit score, down payment, and income requirements needed to qualify for a mortgage, a new survey reveals. 

7 Types of Mortgage Loans for Buyers and Refinancers

Buying a home is the largest financial purchase most of us will ever make. How you finance this purchase is a critical decision. Here are seven types of mortgage loans to consider.

Getting Your First Mortgage When Buying Your First Home

Homeownership is exciting. You have decided it is the right time to buy your first home. You are going to enter the realm of being a first-time homebuyer. Now it is time to go about getting your first home mortgage. The first thing you should do before even looking at houses is to take a look at the money involved in buying your first home. It is time to sit down with a mortgage officer and review your finances and discuss what first…

Why, Where Buyers Get Denied Mortgages

A mortgage denial can be an embarrassing experience for a buyer. A new study reveals the top reasons consumers are being denied and which cities are seeing the highest number of rejections.

4 Common Mortgage Killers & How to Survive Them

Applying for a home loan these days requires detailed documentation. Expect to show everything from full tax returns, pay stubs, bank statements, to letters of explanation regarding your credit, debt, income and assets.

Tips For Ensuring Your First Mortgage Gets Approved

By Hollie Borland, Originally Posted on The Sun From improving your credit score to getting a mortgage in principle, here are some of the ways you can boost your chances of getting the loan for your first home. Getting the funds together for a deposit is one …

Buying a home instead of an engagement ring

The long-recognized trend of couples living together before marriage has encouraged a new pattern: more couples are buying a home together before their

Are Nonprofit Loan Buyers <em>Really</em> Good for the Mortgage Market?

Community development entities like New Jersey Community Capital and Hogar Hispano are being guaranteed a portion of the secondary market for distressed mortgages. They are doing a good job of forestalling foreclosures, but skeptics question whether that run will last.