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Unable to treat her parents as often as she would like, a reader is unsure how to encourage them to take a big step toward financial self-reliance. Growing up, my [...]

The offspring of many East Asian immigrants are raised to support their elders in their later years. That gives a segment of Americans challenges others don't face. A few months [...]

IF there is a boogeyman when it comes to family conversations about inheritance, it is not death. That happens whether people talk about financial plans or not. It's the $40 [...]

MAYBE it's because so many people find the subject boring. Maybe it's because the language is so weird, saying ''basis point'' when you mean one-hundredth of 1 percent and ''beta'' [...]

Gus Wenner runs Rollingstone.com; his father gave him the job. But Jann Wenner, the magazine's co-founder and publisher, was quick to assure critics of the appointment process that his son [...]

For all of the conversation this week about Mitt Romney's views on federal income taxes and personal responsibility, his insistence that ''I have inherited nothing'' may be the most thought-provoking. [...]

LAST spring, Jamie McGurk, an independent producer in Los Angeles, knew that the rough economic climate would make it difficult for her 22-year-old daughter Stephanie to get a job. So [...]

To care for her ailing 97-year-old father over the past three years, Elizabeth Rodriguez, a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, has borrowed against her 401(k) […]