Filed under: Investing , ETFs Everywhere you look, new exchange-traded funds are popping up. Many people think they’re a must-have for a successful portfolio. But even though investors have poured more than $1 trillion into ETFs, the question remains: Do you really need them?

Filed under: JP Morgan Chase , Market News , Banking Hey, Wall Street? Chicken Little called. She says you need to stop overreacting to JPMorgan Chase’s $2 billion trading loss

Filed under: Power of Planning Over the past few years, high unemployment, the housing market implosion and falling wages have driven many American families closer together — both financially and literally. Parents are supporting their adult children, children are supporting parents, and generations are helping each other to weather the economic storms. In some ways, that’s heartwarming, but according to a recent study, the rising trend of inter-generational support has hit baby boomers particularly hard

Filed under: Technology , Earnings , Stocks in the News After seeing its stock fall in 10 of the past 11 trading sessions, Apple ( AAPL ) is reminding investors why it’s the world’s most valuable publicly traded company. Apple delivered blowout quarterly results on Tuesday night. Revenue climbed 59% to $39.2 billion, and earnings per share nearly doubled to $12.30 a share

Filed under: Taxes , Personal Finance By Cameron Huddleston, contributing editor, Kiplinger.com I want to share a poem my 7-year-old daughter wrote last night: I have had no money for a while Then for my birthday someone gave me 1,000 dollars. Let’s go buy all we want! Oh, now we have no more money. Plenty of you have probably received — or will soon — checks for that amount from Uncle Sam.