On this week’s Money Matters Monday, we tackle a financial topic that often gets overlooked: Certificates of Deposit, or CDs. A viewer, Jan, sent in a question asking: “If I do a six-month CD at 4.3% ...

Your savings is a crucial part of your financial plan. A healthy savings account helps you cover unexpected expenses, pay for large purchases and achieve your financial goals without straining your ...

This is an excerpt from Dollar Scholar, the Money newsletter where managing editor Julia Glum teaches you the modern money ...

Simple interest calculates earnings or payments based solely on the initial principal, while compound interest grows by calculating interest on both the principal and the accumulated interest over ...

It seems everywhere you look online, experts are talking about the magic of compound interest and how it can make you wealthy over time. But if you have no clue what that even means, it’s basically ...

Compound interest is one of the great powers of the financial world. Compound interest can help a 20-year-old become a multimillionaire by retirement age without having to save millions. Whether you ...

Compound interest refers to the returns that you earn on interest. The impact of it grows significantly over long time ...

Capital at risk. The value of your investments can go up and down, and you may get back less than you invest. Compounding is a process where interest is credited, not only to the original ‘principal’ ...

Michael Benninger is the lead editor of banking at Forbes Advisor, with more than 10 years of experience in the personal finance space. His writing has been published by the Los Angeles Times, ...