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Discover the various rules that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have for governing variable annuities.

Can pension money be used to fund other retirement accounts?

Find out how debt securitization started, how it works and why the government facilitated the mortgage-backed security market in the United States.

Your credit score, which is also referred to as your FICO score, is a measure that creditors use to assess your potential credit worthiness. Generally speaking, the higher your credit score, the less of a credit risk borrowers will perceive you to be.

Read a brief outline of the purpose of savings accounts, emergency funds and how to determine how much money to store for emergency purposes.

The "three-legged stool" is an old phrase that many financial planners used to describe the three most common sources of retirement income: Social Security, employee pensions, and personal savings.

Find out how to calculate the future value of an ordinary annuity or an annuity due, including how the power of compounding helps grow your investment.

If you are looking specifically for an investment banking position, an MBA may be marginally preferable over the CFA. The caveat here is that the MBA would most probably need to be from a Top-20 B-School.The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) is well worth considering if you (a) are aiming for an entry-level position in investment banking, and/or (b) cannot afford to shell out six figures for an MBA or have to settle for a lesser-known B-school.That's because in the investment banking field, most entry-level positions are at the analyst level.

Understand the difference between financial planning and portfolio management, and learn which financial professionals can perform each.