James Ellis

You may have read about cash management accounts. They go by a variety of names: hybrid checking, hybrid accounts, cash management vehicles. Like many consumer financial products, readers may be a bit unclear about how these accounts actually work — and to start, note that they are very different than ... Read More

CDs, or certificates of deposit, work under an easy-to-understand premise: You agree to place your money with a bank or credit union for a set amount of time, during which it will earn interest. At the end of the period, you get your money back plus a nice chunk of ... Read More

Investing in the market used to require a dedicated workstation with reports and research piled high, from where you would call in your stock picks like a general ordering an air strike. Today the ubiquity of smartphones has made investing only a little more complicated than ordering a pizza, a ... Read More