If your wallet gets stolen or you've been caught up in a data breach -- as in April, when hackers grabbed 1.5 million credit card numbers -- you can protect against identity theft by contacting one of the big three credit bureaus, which are required by law to place a fraud alert on your report.
How can you beat the odds if you want to join the boomerpreneur boom and start your own company after 50? MONEY put that question to small-business experts and dozens of fiftysomething entrepreneurs for their best advice.
How can you beat the odds if you want to join the boomerpreneur boom and start your own company after 50? MONEY put that question to small-business experts and dozens of fiftysomething entrepreneurs for their best advice.
This piece appears in the June issue of Money Magazine and was written before JPMorgan Chase revealed a surprise $2 billion trading loss. Data in the story has been updated to reflect stock prices as of May 11.
As a regional director for Aflac insurance, Stephanie Ringer had built her Louisville sales team into one of the top in Kentucky. One of her secrets for keeping her staff motivated? Holding brainstorming sessions in a local meeting space called WorkShop. She found that the center -- with its whiteboards, comfy couches, and crazy toys like hula hoops -- fueled productive sessions. So when WorkShop's owners put the business up for sale in 2007, Ringer, then 46, decided to buy it.
Going to medical providers and using medical services outside of your health insurer's network can be much more expensive than you imagined. Here are 5 tips to avoid incurring some of the high out-of-network charges.
You managed to glide through your twenties and thirties without any major health issues. Yet, as the calendar pages turn, you're finding that a host of minor -- and perhaps a few major -- medical problems keep cropping up. The doctor shakes her head when she sees your blood pressure and cholesterol numbers.
Last year was an eventful one for June Shin. She divorced her husband of 11 years, and in the settlement gave up about half of her 401(k) and company stock.
At age 60, Kathy Frederick routinely put in 50 hours a week as a hospital administrator for Scripps Health Systems in San Diego. She managed a 15-person staff, and regularly took work home on week-ends -- until one day five years ago she decided enough was enough. "I wasn't ready to retire," says Frederick, "but after 18 years at that pace, I wanted a different challenge and more time for myself."
They steered their funds into the head of the pack in the bear market, in the bull market and even in the current blah market. Find out how these managers did it and where they're investing now.
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