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The purpose of this article is not to discuss or opine on any medical issues associated with the virus. There are health professionals and Government instructions to deal with that. But I will offer some thoughts on its impact on your money. Even tho...

Have you started planning your summer vacation yet? It’ll be sipping-lemonade-by-the-pool season before you know it. I love vacations, but here’s what I don’t love: nearly 40 per cent of millennials are willing to go into debt for their trips. Coming...

Investors may have complacently thought that the continued rise in financial valuations would never end. The outlier, the so-called “Black Swan” event, this time the extremely serious impacts of the Covid-19 virus around the world became the catalyst...

Dear Dave, We need some advice on protecting our assets. My wife is a teacher, and I’m a nurse. We make around $180,000 a year combined, and we’re set to pay off our home next month. We also have two teenagers who are both driving, so we were wonderi...

Dear Dave, I went through a divorce a couple of months ago, and I’m not sure what to do next. I received custody of our kids, ages 13 and 15, plus I have a good job and I got the house in the settlement. It’s a nice, simple home, but it’s paid for an...

It’s smart not to panic in a falling market. But that doesn’t mean you should get aggressive instead. When equity markets fall, there’s always a chorus urging you to take advantage of the opportunity to buy stocks for less than they cost the day befo...

On January 4, 2020, Moneywise featured a reader’s pretend portfolio. We thank this individual again for the enthusiastic participation. This week, we discuss Teladoc Health. “I’m thinking about buying it,” our reader said. What a prescient choice, ...

Dear Dave, My husband and I had our first child in December. We bought a house not long before the baby was born, and since then we’ve been getting mail and phone calls about buying mortgage protection insurance. We’re both 27, we have good jobs, and...

Global trading markets experienced an absolute disruption (expressed in investment terms) last week. As fears of contagion from the coronavirus with the possible concomitant reductionor freeze in supply chains’ access for global industries, and many...

Dear Dave, My husband passed away last year at just 45 years old. We always tried to be careful with our money, and we were in good enough shape financially that I paid for his funeral with cash. A few days ago, I started getting letters from the fun...

A reader who was born in the US, and has a Bermudian parent and a Bermudian grandfather who resides on the island, has asked a question about her status. She is 30, and while she has visited her relatives, she has never lived in Bermuda. Her Bermudia...

Moneywise answers a reader’s questions, converted for confidentiality to generic anonymity. Any resemblance to any individual, living or deceased, is completely unintentional. Readers’ letters to Moneywise over the years have focused on retirement ...