Sarah Max

This feature gives Worth readers an insider’s look at the fastest-growing segment of cycling.

All those references to millennials and avocado toast are getting stale. Millennials, now ages 24 to 39, are entering their prime earning and investing years and they stand to inherit an estimated $68 trillion over the next decade. With research from Storyful, Dow Jones takes a closer look at the Millennial money mindset.

From pay disparity to finding the right financial advisor, women face distinctive challenges when it comes to maintaining and building wealth. And sometimes the biggest hurdle is internal. So what’s a woman to do? Start planning.

It’s that time of year again: open enrollment. This annual rite of passage is when employees — or anyone in a state health insurance exchange or individual marketplace — can sign up for or make changes to their health insurance and other benefits.
Employees often greet open enrollment with a collective groan, seeing it as just one more thing to add to their ever-expanding to-do list. If you’re among them, try looking at it another way: Health insurance is probably a big chunk of your total co...

“A wise investor once remarked to us: ‘If Jesus were a stock, he’d be Netflix.’ ” That’s how Bernstein media analyst Todd Juenger recently summed up the fervor surrounding the revolutionary streaming service—which, he was quick to add, had attracted obsessive detractors as well as fans.
As it happens, something similar could be said of any number of superstar stocks, whether they’ve gained cult status because of customers’ fierce loyalty, a demigod-like chief executive, or a seemingly impenet...

Forty years ago, Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1978 and added a single paragraph marked (k) to Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code. The primary intention was to put more parameters around pretax contributions made to cash-deferred plans. Yet, in fewer than 900 words, Congress inadvertently created what is now a major part of the backbone of retirement in America.
Today, 55 million people are active 401(k) plan participants, according to the Investment Company Institute. More than $5...

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In hindsight, maybe we should have seen the housing market collapse and financial meltdown coming, if only we'd known how to connect the dots. But while there was plenty of anecdotal evidence of deadbeat borrowers and overzealous lenders, traditional data sources didn't paint a complete picture. Warnings signs that should have been flashing red showed up as mixed signals at best.

Much has changed in the last decade—not just in finance but acros...

Networking on two wheels takes on a whole new meaning in the era of Strava.

The developer of a new building in Portland is determined to make his crowdfunding efforts a success.

Following its prominent bankruptcy, the Yellowstone Club is thriving again.

Riding bikes may be green, but the manufacturing behind them can be far from it
Last January, Leo Kokkonen, founder of Finland-based Pole Bicycles, visited China in search of a frame manufacturer, the final step of a two-year-long project to design, test, and launch the company’s first carbon-fiber mountain bike.
Founded in 2013, Pole quickly made a name for itself among critics after its Evolink bikes—known for their long wheelbase—took top honors in the industry’s 2017 Design and Innovation...

Investors tend to associate high-yield bonds with risky companies that have taken on more debt than they can handle, or whose better days are behind them. While the junk-bond universe does have its share of dodgy issues, Mark Durbiano sees a far more nuanced market.

Increasingly it's not a question of if parents will provide financial support to their children, but how to do so in a responsible way...

The Hincapie brand endured despite its celebrity cofounder's 2012 admission to doping.

How the world's largest foundation takes a venture capital approach to further its mission