Calculating stock growth rates can be challenging and seem intimidating, especially with all the numbers and terminology getting thrown around. Every investor has a preferred way of calculating that ...

Almost everyone understands home equity — this private equity is the percentage of your home you own after paying down your mortgage. More technically, it’s the value of an asset, like property, minus ...

The formula for calculating a dividend’s yield can be broken down into two key steps. A dividend is a payment from a company or other entity to shareholders tied to ownership of a stock or another ...

Matt Richardson is the senior managing editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com. He writes and edits content about personal finance ranging from savings to investing to insurance.

For decades, the conventional wisdom about mortgage refinancing has been clear: You should swap loans only when mortgage rates have dropped a full percentage point from the rate on your original loan.