Our nation has just enjoyed one of its most popular annual rituals: the Super Bowl. One can draw many lessons from the drama on the gridiron and all the hoopla surrounding it.

You might have grown tired with paying huge bank rates for your loans. Well, now you have a better alternative, because you can join a federal credit union and you can be sure that you will make economical deals.

FED seems in this stage to keep the rates on this level through out the year of 2007, the inflation is still to high to consider any cuts and the slowing growth makes it unlikely that FED will risking going in to recession with another increase.

The sale of Equity-Indexed Annuities has increased 45% the first 6 months of this year. I'm concerned that the vast majority of those sales are unsuitable for the investors buying them.

Countless investors have lost large portions of their investments. Some have been in investments where they lost everything. But investors looking for help in recouping losses often find there are few places to turn for assistance. Read on to learn about one investor that finally got justice.

One email in particular recently caught my eye. And it wasn't from being flamed by irate insurance agents (I got plenty of those!), or emails from thankful consumers, pleased the public is being warned about equity-indexed annuities' pitfalls.

At some point you will need to make changes to your investment portfolio. Often, investors and their advisors make wholesale changes all at once. But that's not really in your best interest. Read on to find out how to successfully adjust your portfolio.

Variable Annuities now offer a Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit which allows you to earn 5% or 6% even if the market drops significantly. Undoubtedly, you will be pitched a variable annuity or pressured to transfer your existing one into a new contract with this benefit.

You should learn how to manage your own investments, because if you rely solely upon your broker, your portfolio might not grow as much as you want

You should continue to grow your nest egg even when retired--unless you've been blessed with more money than you will ever spend! Last week I discussed in detail how retirees can boost their income without taking on unnecessary risk.