Deciding whether to take a $400,000 lump sum or monthly pension benefit of $2,000 requires calculating the relative value of each option. Generally speaking, the sooner you can receive the lump sum, ...

During the coronavirus pandemic, more people are worried about their company pension plans. Many American companies are under financial duress, which could spill over into the underfunding of pension ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Zero-sum thinking is outdated. The future of growth is inclusive, abundant and collective. Unsplash+ Our economic narrative has been hijacked by a dangerous falsehood: the notion that the economy is ...

In corporate finance and valuation, experts and self-taught learners rely upon various guiding principles. One of those core principles is the time value of money. Whether you’re a professional in the ...

For the first time since September 2018, investors consider Citigroup Inc. to be worth at least the sum of its parts.

Chess, a zero-sum game, here seen played at a strategy session at Camp David in 1978 between the Israeli prime minister and the US National Security Advisor. The concept of zero-sum thinking ...

Have you ever thought of the humble SUM function as a secret weapon for advanced analytics? Most Excel users see it as a basic tool for adding numbers, but what if I told you it could do so much more?

Intrinsic value estimates a stock's true worth, often differing from market price. Discounted cash flow analysis calculates intrinsic value based on predicted future cash flows. Using financial ...