Higher One’s Student Website Offers Expert Articles, Tips and Features “One For Your Money,” the online community built by Higher One, Inc., has been listed as a “Top 10 Student Financial Literacy Resource on the Web” bycheapscholar.org. One For Your Money helps students to address their money management needs. The site hosts a variety of informative [...]
Effort to provide credit union members and their children with online tutorial services. Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed), the third largest credit union in the country with over a million members and assets in excess of $14.7 billion, announced today it has partnered with MathMastery to help improve financial literacy among PenFed members and their [...]
Chairman Bernanke Delivers Statement on Financial Literacy. At a Federal Reserve hearing held April 12, 2011, Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a statement highlighting the importance of financial literacy and consumer education to a stable economy. At a Federal Reserve hearing held April 12, 2011, Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a statement highlighting the importance of financial [...]
Test Scores Were Down on Higher One’s Annual National Survey Measuring Basic Financial Management Knowledge Indicating Need for Shift in Focus of Existing Efforts Scores on a nine-question quiz to measure current college students’ basic financial management knowledge administered by Higher One, Inc. were down from last year, with more than 70 percent of students [...]
Honored by the Institute for Financial Literacy Acclaimed financial advisor Ric Edelman’s book, “The Truth About Money, 4th Edition,” has been named winner of an Excellence in Financial Literacy Education (EIFLE) Award. The EIFLE Awards are presented by the Institute for Financial Literacy, a leading financial counseling and education organization. The awards honor, “innovation and [...]
Diversity Still Lacking Amongst FTSE 100 CEOs, Robert Half Analysis Finds It appears that finance skills are key to becoming a leading CEO, findings from the annual Robert Half FTSE 100 CEO Tracker reveal. Nearly half (49 per cent) of serving Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in the current FTSE 100 Index have financial backgrounds*, compared [...]
Just in time for Financial Literacy Month (April), Rich Dad Poor Dad Author Robert Kiyosaki releases his newest book: “Unfair Advantage – The Power of Financial Education” (http://www.richdad.com/unfairadvantage.) With the world recovering from the Great Recession, the value of the dollar dropping and the middle class shrinking, people are looking for financial answers. Whether it’s [...]
OUR Credit Union is proud to take financial responsibility to a new level by partnering with FamilyMint, a unique award-winning hands-on budgeting and educational application designed specifically for kids ages 5 to 16. FamilyMint provides parents with an interactive and simple resource to help raise money-smart kids and is provided at no cost to OUR [...]
Springboard Nonprofit Consumer Credit Management is encouraging consumers to participate in a national initiative and pledge to become debt free. April is officially recognized in the United States as National Financial Literacy month. This is a time when heightened awareness is placed on financial literacy education. According to the Federal Reserve, the average credit card [...]
To Celebrate Financial Literacy Month, Money Savvy Generation launches Savings Spree® App Here we are, in the middle of National Financial Literacy Month, and Congress can’t agree on how to trim our federal budget. Perhaps if Savings Spree, the newest financial literacy tool from Money Savvy Generation, had been available when they were young, our [...]
