Financial advisor Thomas Rindahl recently worked with a 20-year-old client who had inherited $50,000 from her grandmother. The college student has decades before retirement, but Rindahl didn’t put the ...

A laddering strategy can offer low-risk, predictable returns that will help you keep up with — or beat — inflation, while protecting your money during volatile markets and helping you meet your near- ...

Certificate of deposit (CD) accounts offer savers a relatively easy and reliable way to grow their money. Simply deposit a certain amount into an account, let it sit untouched for the full CD term ...

A CD ladder is just a group of CDs with different maturity dates. Instead of putting all your money into one CD, you split it up and stagger when each piece comes due. The biggest benefit is ...