Home equity borrowing is often one of the more affordable ways to obtain a large amount of money and in recent years, it's been one of the only ways. Thanks to inflation and rate hikes, the costs ...

New forms of private equity funds give access to ordinary investors of more modest means. Should they rush in?

Homeowners in the U.S. have relied on two familiar methods for accessing their housing wealth, otherwise known as equity, in the past. Those two methods are home equity loans and home equity lines of ...

In this series on portfolio basics, I’ll explain some of the fundamentals of putting together sound portfolios. I’ll start with some of the most widely used types of investments and walk through what ...