Helping Kids Learn to Budget

Written By: Jen Pieson A few days ago Humans of New York’s Brandon Stanton interviewed a young boy who talked about his family’s allowance system. This post attracted a lot of attention; many people responded positively to the way the parents were...

Young Savers: How to Begin

Written By: Tom Gates, CFP Some of the most asked questions at JPP are about what advice to give young people about saving and investment: How much should I save? Where should I invest my savings? What rate of return should I expect? Should I pay-off all of my debt...

Searching for Scholarships

While doing some research on financial aid for a client, I realized that most of our clients have too much income for their children to qualify for financial aid.  To help finance a college education for their children without paying out of pocket, the...

Paying for College

In my last two blogs, I wrote about researching bank accounts and finding a credit card for my daughter Chelsey, who is a junior at Emerson College in Boston and currently spending a semester abroad in London.  As promised, in this blog I’ll write more about saving...

Student Banking 101

Written by: Marilee Falco, CFP®, ChFC In my last blog entry I wrote about Credit Cards for college students.  As a quick follow-up on that, my daughter Chelsey was denied a credit card by Capital One.  Apparently her wages were not sufficient to qualify.  In some...