Social Security payments reliably safeguard against inflation. Critics sometimes dispute the details of the administration’s cost-of-living adjustments—although, one suspects, few recipients will ...

A bond ladder is an investment strategy that involves purchasing multiple bonds that mature at different times. The ladder analogy is an apt visual tool to describe how bond ladders work: Each rung of ...

This article's mission is clear: to alert some investors to something that the masses of investing gurus and salespeople don't put in front of them. It's a mad, mad, mad world of constant information ...

Not long ago, investors had to pay the U.S. government for the privilege of owning Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities. The real yields, that is the yields after factoring in inflation, were ...

A CD ladder allows you to take advantage of the high yields that certificates of deposit (CDs) are currently offering while still keeping your money pretty accessible. But is CD laddering a good ...

Solid CD rates allow retirees to secure a reliable income with a CD ladder strategy. Retirees need to balance lower-returning CDs with stocks and other investments. Building a CD ladder involves using ...

Liliana Hall was a writer for CNET Money covering banking, credit cards and mortgages. Previously, she wrote about personal credit for Bankrate and CreditCards.com. David McMillin writes about credit ...

Building a CD ladder involves buying multiple CDs that mature at different times. For example, you might buy a 1-year CD, 2-year CD, 3-year CD, 4-year CD, and a 5-year CD. Or you might buy a 3-month ...