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Deciphering investors’ behavior.

WalletHub, a financial decision making site, ranked these smart states based on two categories: knowledge and education; and planning and daily habits.

‘The Retirement Gamble’ blames reps — and the actively managed funds they hawk — for putting retirement savers at risk.

John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group Inc., believes low-cost, passive indexes are the best way to invest — as long as they’re not offered through an exchange-traded fund.

For years, investors have had no lobbying group to speak out for them, but Barbara Roper and the Consumer Federation of America, where she serves as director of investment protection, have helped change that.

Whether the market behaves rationally or irrationally is often the subject of raging debate in both academic and popular financial literature.

A guide to mastering your money in the new year.

Want to build some wealth in 2011? Revisit those New Year’s resolutions.

A million here, a million there and pretty soon an investment can wind up adding up to real losses. What seems like a great idea one day can all too soon turn into an obvious mistake.

When you’re young, you can afford to make some financial mistakes. The closer you get to retirement, however, the more costly those missteps can be.