Greg Mcbride

It’s important to find the right home for your emergency savings.

Beta is a way of measuring a stock’s volatility compared with the overall market’s volatility. The market as a whole has a beta of 1.

Maxing out your Roth IRA — if you’re able to do so — can prove to be one of your smartest financial decisions.

Risk tolerance is your ability to stomach a decline in the value of your investments. When you’re trying to determine your risk tolerance, ask yourself how comfortable you will feel maintaining your positions when the stock market is experiencing large declines.

The Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 are all market indexes, not stock exchanges.

If you are trying to figure out how to catch up on retirement savings, your strategy — and how quickly you need to make major adjustments — will depend on your age and your goals for exiting the workforce.

Opening a savings account is a quick and easy process. In most cases, you can do it from your home. To make the process easier, make sure you have all the documents and information needed to open a savings account.

The number helps gauge whether the price of a stock is on the rise or on the decline.

These companies have long-term track records of success and promising futures.

Target-date funds are growing in popularity. Know their benefits and drawbacks.