Evaluating your new financial position It's important to determine how wealthy you are once you receive your inheritance. Before you spend or give away any money or assets, decide to move, or leave your job, you should do a cash flow analysis and determine your net worth as a first step toward plan...

What is an ESOP? An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is a type of qualified defined contribution plan that you can use to help fund your employees' retirement. An ESOP can be a stock bonus plan, or a combination stock bonus plan and money purchase pension plan. ESOPs, and stock bonus plans gener...

One of the longest-standing debates in investing is over the relative merits of active portfolio management versus passive management. With an actively managed portfolio, a manager tries to beat the performance of a given benchmark index by using his or her judgment in selecting individual securiti...