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A review of last year’s 2014 gone fishing portfolio returns.

A gone-fishing portfolio has a limited number of investments with a balanced asset allocation that should do well with dampened volatility.

Their attorney, New York-based Barry Lax, says the two ballplayers are the latest professional athletes abused by predatory financial advisors.

A mob boss exercises absolute control over his many followers and profits from the often criminal activities of his organization.

David John Marotta and Rob Schilling discussed the ways current policy makes college more unaffordable, and what students and parents can do about it.

Congress cannot protect you from the financial sharks who contribute to their campaigns, but they may protect the sharks.

Roth conversions are a great way to save money and if you have a good financial planner, they need not be a headache.

Kenneth G. Elzinga. Ken is both a nationally renowned economist as well as a locally celebrated professor here in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia.

It is illegal to sell contacts in the United States without requiring a prescription. A Federal Trade Commission regulation provides penalties of up to $11,000 per violation.

The United States is the only country that imposes a tax on all income the company makes whether it is earned within or outside the country.

“Markets have made possible the prospect of the bulk of an economy’s population not being poor and oppressed.”

The fight is on! Everyone wants to be known as a fiduciary, but not everyone deserves the title.

Does the Joint Economic Committee live up to anything in its name?

Ken Elzinga writes the popular Henry Spearman mystery novels under the pen name of Marshal Jevons. We caught up with Professor Elzinga for the following interview.

These noble-sounding goals intuitively appear useful, but the federal government has only two ways to encourage change and neither of them helps in this case.