Think about the last person you would expect to be sitting on a million-dollar portfolio. Maybe it’s the colleague who brings lunch from home every day, never mentions investing, and drives a car that’s at least a decade old. There’s a good chance you’d be completely wrong about their bank balance. Wealth, it turns out, … Read more

Africa is a continent of staggering contrasts. While headlines too often focus on poverty and instability, an entirely different story is quietly unfolding in gleaming coastal neighborhoods, fortified hilltop mansions, and palm-lined boulevards where property prices rival those of London or Monaco. This is the Africa the travel brochures rarely show you. The continent’s wealth … Read more

Most Americans picture retirement as a finish line – the moment you cross it, you breathe easy. But for millions of lower-income workers, that finish line comes with a catch. Claiming Social Security even a year or two early, at 63 instead of full retirement age, can permanently reshape the size of every check you … Read more

There is something quietly fascinating about asking what it actually meant to be rich in 1980. The numbers look almost quaint by today’s standards, yet they carried enormous social weight. In a decade defined by Reagan-era economic shifts, disco’s final curtain, and a stock market on the verge of transformation, the definition of “affluent” was … Read more