Hear Marketwatch’s Jonathan Burton explain the benefits of a simple retirement portfolio. But a strong case can be made for investors following a design principle known as KISS, which in this case stands for: Keep it simple, [ Read More → ]

NEW YORK — The developers planning to build a $100 million Islamic center near the World Trade Center site still have financial hurdles to clear: They haven’t finished buying all the property they want for the project and are nearly a quarter-million dollars behind on real estate taxes and late [ Read More → ]

A California woman deep in credit card debt turned to a debt-settlement company that immediately began deducting money from her bank account for its promised services. After three months, the woman started getting calls from her creditors and learned they had never heard from the company. She asked for her money [ Read More → ]

There are a lot of bank fees that deserve the “Slater Slide.’’ Steven Slater is the JetBlue flight attendant who allegedly cursed a rude passenger and then opened an emergency exit and jumped down the aircraft’s slide. He slid into infamy or history — depending on your take on [ Read More → ]

As The Telegraph has revealed over recent weeks, the level of charges really needs to be a factor when it comes to making an investment decision. Our exposé is backed up by new research just published in America on US funds. As we report elsewhere, a report by the leading [ Read More → ]

A state recovery fund designed to reimburse Floridians who were scammed by their contractors is bankrupt. Set up after Hurricane Andrew, the Florida Homeowners’ Construction Recovery Fund ran out of cash two years ago. The account is replenished with fees charged on building permit applications, but with construction statewide at a near [ Read More → ]

Halifax Reward current account customers, who are already eligible for £60 a year (£5 per month) in cash rewards when they fund their account with £1,000 each calendar month, can now earn up to £120 a year in rewards by applying for the new Halifax Clarity credit card, launched in [ Read More → ]

BOSTON (AP) — A new study reinforces time-tested advice for investors shopping for mutual funds: Look first for funds with low fees, then go from there. Fund expenses are a slightly more important factor in predicting how well a fund will perform than the one- to five-star system that uses [ Read More → ]

Q: I will be retiring from Miami-Dade Public Schools the end of this September. I need to reinvest my pension money, and my 403b. I talked to a financial planner, but he has not stated a fee, and I assume that is because he is pushing “XYZ Partners” as [ Read More → ]

The latest lending statistics suggested the number of people who remortgaged their homes in June was just 27,000, down 20 per cent on a year earlier. Ed Stansfield, chief property economist at Capital Economics, said: “There is a sense that people have too little equity in their homes to be able to switch [ Read More → ]