Wealth

valentinrussanov When the stock market dips, a strategy known as tax-loss harvesting can be a silver lining. But it doesn’t make sense for all portfolios, financial experts say.   Here’s how tax-loss harvesting works: You can sell declining assets from your brokerage account and use the losses to offset other profits. Once losses exceed gains, you…

Many pre-teens today find life lessons and knowledge on TikTok. Twelve-year-old Ray Dalio found them on the golf course. On a recent episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast, hosted by actor Dax Shepard, Dalio detailed how connections he made as a young golf caddy in the early 1960s taught him how to invest. On the…

After more than two years of closed border policies, Japan is set to welcome back international travelers this week. Come June 10, foreign tourists traveling via packaged tours can enter Japan. However, the government’s priority still lies in boosting domestic tourism numbers, said Tadashi Shimura, president of Japan Association of Travel Agents. Even before the…

Fstop123 | E+ | Getty Images Tax breaks designed to boost retirement savings may primarily benefit higher earners, leaving middle-class workers behind, according to a report from the National Institute on Retirement Security. With most Americans receiving less than half of preretirement income from Social Security, many rely on employer-sponsored savings plans and individual retirement…

NAACP President Derrick Johnson Courtesy: NAACP At the end of May, word circulated that the Biden administration was leaning toward a student loan forgiveness plan of $10,000 per borrower. Officials at the NAACP were livid. The association’s president and CEO, Derrick Johnson, said in a statement soon after the news broke that $10,000 “in cancellation…

When Sheryl Sandberg joined Facebook in 2008, she knew she was committing to more than your typical 9-to-5 job. But the departing Meta COO says she didn’t realize the “24/7” job would last 14 years. CNBC’s Julia Boorstin recently caught up with Sandberg, who said she initially only expected to stay at Facebook for five…

Before billionaire investor Ray Dalio built the world’s largest hedge fund, he went broke. On a recent episode of actor Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, Dalio said he nearly tanked hedge fund Bridgewater Associates less than 10 years into running it: After incorrectly predicting that the world market would crash in 1982, Dalio lost investors,…

In this article FB Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta as one of the highest-profile and most successful women in tech — and after more than $1.7 billion in stock sales. Sandberg announced Wednesday that she is stepping down from her role as chief operating officer after 14 years at Meta, formerly known as Facebook. Sandberg will remain…

Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph says the “most dispensed advice in the history of mankind” might also be the worst. At Cape Cod Community College’s recent commencement ceremony, Randolph told the class of 2022 that three common graduation speech words — “follow your dreams” — constitute “terrible advice.” “It’s not the advice itself that’s bad,” Randolph,…

While most of the travel industry struggled to get back on its feet, the yachting industry had a different problem during the pandemic: serving everyone wanting to charter a boat. Like the rise in private jet travel during the pandemic, charter demand remains “extremely strong,” said Crom Littlejohn, chief commercial officer of the yacht brokerage…

Klaus Vedfelt | DigitalVision | Getty Images Months of stock market volatility may deliver a costly surprise to parents sending children to school this fall: smaller-than-expected 529 college savings plan balances.  The average 529 account size was $30,287 in 2021, according to the College Savings Plans Network, but families may now have lower balances, financial…

The rental market in the Hamptons is facing an unexpected chill this summer. After two years of strong demand and soaring prices, the supply of rentals in the Hamptons is surging, leading to a wave of last-minute price cuts. Median rental prices in the first quarter fell 26%, according to Jonathan Miller, CEO of Miller…