Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Toby Walters is a financial writer, investor, and lifelong learner. He has a passion for ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. A balanced fund is a mutual fund that typically contains a component of stocks and bonds. A mutual fund is a ...

Change is hard. Even more so when it comes to standardized tests. The Oregon Department of Education today released results from the Smarter Balanced test, administered statewide for the first time ...

I think they’re at the core of what we do every day as journalists – tracking where your tax dollars go and how they’re spent. So, when the city of Beaumont added its own definition of a “balanced ...