Markets and Investing

The numbers are astounding. Victims of phishing scams can lose hundreds, even thousands of dollars. The FTC estimates that consumers lost $1.9 billion to phishing schemes in 2019 and the pandemic has only increased the threat. It’s time to put...

Each of us has an inherent personal money culture determining much of the way we think and manage our personal finances. In my experience, how we spend, save, invest and even earn money is determined in an often loosely perceived set of unique...

Because October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we are encouraging our customers to remember four important words when it comes to inquiries on their financial accounts: Banks Never Ask That. Every day, thousands of people fall for...

In addition to the usual financial risks we have such as inflation risk, market risk, and economic risk; there is another risk to confront in retirement: longevity risk, which is the risk of outliving your retirement assets. When planning for...

Tuesday evening my brother and I returned from a “Dad’s trip” with our 11-year-olds to the Yellowstone National Park region. It was an amazing adventure, the kids were delightful, the weather nearly perfect, and the wilds of Yellowstone never...

In September 1998, before I was even writing “Your Mind on Money,” the stock market was blazing hot and heading higher. A local newspaper columnist decided to do a series of articles about a “stock market game” involving three different...

Children might not be responsible for paying bills or maintaining a family’s budget, but Teachers Credit Union Director of Financial Wellness and Wellbeing Jeff Sobieralski believes that the earlier parents begin educating them on finances, the...

Paid Endorsement Protecting individuals and organizations for more than a century is an impressive legacy in itself, but when you add to that a dedicated, multi-generational staff, that legacy is magnified. Meyers Glaros Group claims such a legacy,...

Community banking sounds like a simple idea on the surface, but when put into practice, it means that institutions such as 1st Source Bank work from an entirely different, people-first philosophy, building a vast network of deep roots in the...

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. – Michael E. Schrage, CEO and Chairman of Centier Bank, is pleased to announce the recent launch of the bank’s online Financial Educational series, Centier To You, on the bank’s website. Centier has hosted in-person community...