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This site is provided through the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and provides a wide range of financial information. The site is divided into the areas of: life stages, financial topics, and women. The homepage for each section provides links to more specific topics. The life stages section is broken down into categories such as childhood, college, career, military and reserves, couples and marriage, parenthood, home ownership, entrepreneurs, life crisis, the sandwich generation and retirement and estate planning.

Wide-ranging Internet site of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP); contains information on personal financial planning, work, health, wellness, etc.

Rates national nonprofit groups on a variety of standards, including what percentage of charitable dollars go to aid programs compared with administrative costs.

This central site allows you to request a free credit file disclosure, commonly called a credit report, once every 12 months from each of the nationwide consumer credit reporting companies: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. It is sponsored by those companies

A free site with lots of useful information, whether you're a borrower or a lender; comprehensive rate information on CDs, mortgages, and other bank products; helpful calculators and financial advice.

The web site of the well-known financial newspaper; published by Dow Jones; great coverage of financial and business news; has a very useful “market laboratory” section that is full of useful statistics on the stock and bond markets.

Allows you to check out the reliability of companies and charities; file a complaint, and obtain consumer information and guidance.

Customizable site with huge number of links to financial newspapers and magazines, stock market and company research, government agencies, and various office tools.

The Choose to Save® public education program promotes the idea that saving today is vital to a secure financial future. It is a program of the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (www.ebri.org). Choose to Save® also provides Internet tools (www.choosetosave.org) to help consumers plan all aspects of their financial security, and includes the award-winning Ballpark Estimate Retirement Planning Worksheet to estimate how much they need to save for retirement.

Focuses on funding a child's college education; maintained and updated by various state agencies; updated information on Section 529 plans. Includes links to the Web site for each state's plan

Resources for family business owners and executives, including technical articles. Hosted by Northeastern University's Center for Family Business.

The Federal Student Aid Gateway—the source for free information, guidance and tools for federal student assistance—from the U.S. Department of Education's office of Federal Student Aid.

Provides information and downloadable forms to apply for financial aid for college; also includes the Financial Aid Estimation Form, which can be used to get an estimate of the amount of government aid you might obtain.

Huge searchable library of articles on economics and finance; especially valuable for getting an international orientation of events, not just the United States perspective.

Search for nonprofits nationwide, read Form 990 filed with IRS for many; review financial information of charitable organizations

Provides a wide range of comprehensive company, industry, and market data useful for investors and analysts; site contains “IPO Central,” which focuses on upcoming initial public offerings.

Table of Contents for Internal Revenue Manual promulgated by IRS. Click on a heading for access to the full text of various Parts

Geared toward many types of investors--from beginners to experienced equity investors who are new to bonds to sophisticated bond investors--Investinginbonds.com is a unique source of bond price information and includes a wide variety of market data, news, commentary and information about bonds.

This section of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Web site allows the public to search for and read the public disclosure statement, Form ADV, filed by investment advisers.

One of the most extensive glossaries of financial and investment terms you'll find on the web; over 5,000 definitions and 15,000 links between related terms.

LifeLock, the industry leader in proactive identity theft protection, offers a proven solution that prevents your identity from being stolen before it happens.

The official U. S. Government site for people with Medicare coverage; information on Medicare health plans; a directory of participating physicians; allows you to subscribe to the Medicare email list.

Sponsored by the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA), this site offers a database of state unclaimed property records. Free search of unclaimed property records on all states.

The Web site of the national association for real estate investment companies. Includes historical and current index data showing returns from REIT investments.

Page on the Social Security Web site offers three different calculators to estimate the social security retirement benefit that a worker will receive, based on earnings history. The most accurate calculator is a downloadable program that makes projections based on actual earnings history or on assumptions about future earnings.

The World Factbook is produced by CIA's Directorate of Intelligence. The Factbook is a comprehensive resource of facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and other entities. Country information updated often and is available alphabetically by country or by search.