Finance
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How to make a home down payment without wrecking your financesMay 05, 2019 6:00 am - Maximizing a home down payment can make sense: The bigger the down payment, the lower the monthly mortgage bill and the better the chance of building equity more quickly...
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Income can peak before you're ready (and what that means for retirement)May 05, 2019 6:00 am - Most retirement calculators are optimistic to a fault. They assume our incomes will rise throughout our working lives, or at least stay roughly the same. In reality, our...
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Adjustable-rate mortgages: Are they worth it?
May 05, 2019 6:00 am - Adjustable-rate mortgages, known as ARMs, are back, despite having earned a bad reputation at the height of the housing crisis. Post-crisis borrowers saw them as risky b...
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Byline Bancorp acquires Oak Park River Forest BanksharesMay 02, 2019 1:00 am - CHICAGO - Byline Bancorp, the parent company of Byline Bank, has completed its acquisition of Oak Park River Forest Bankshares Inc in a stock transaction valued at appro...
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Wintrust earns top J.D. Power satisfaction ratingMay 01, 2019 1:00 am - ROSEMONT - Wintrust Financial Corp. received the J.D. Power Award for ranking highest in the J.D. Power 2019 U.S. Retail Banking Satisfaction Study for the Midwest regio...
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Why America's elderly are twice as likely to work now than in 1985
Apr 28, 2019 6:15 am - Just as single-income families began to vanish in the last century, many of America's elderly are now forgoing retirement for the same reason: They don't have enough mon...
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Analysis: Is forcing students to study personal finance a waste of time?
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Millennials, are you robbing the Bank of Mom and Dad?Apr 28, 2019 6:00 am - When Melanie Lockert graduated with a master's in performance studies in 2011, she was overwhelmed with student loans. Her many attempts to tap the Bank of Mom and Dad h...
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Saving for retirement is hard. Knowing how to spend it down is harder.
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Wynnchurch Capital acquires Alliance Designer ProductsApr 23, 2019 1:00 am - ROSEMONT - Private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has acquired Canadian manufacturer Alliance Designer Products Inc., the firm announced Tuesday. Terms of the acquisitio...