Kiplinger's Personal Finance - 04.2018

KIPLINGER'S PERSONAL FINANCE provides down-to-earth advice on managing money and achieving financial security. We provide our readers with trustworthy information and practical guidance on saving, investing, planning for retirement, paying for college, buying an automobile, home and other major purchases, as well as reliable advice for all stages of their financial lives. Our readers are affluent and influential men and women who are actively involved in their personal-finance decisions, and we are guided by the expectation that they will act on what we write about and benefit from doing so.

*** THE NEW RULES OF PHILANTHROPY Fewer people will itemize under the new tax law, but our strategies will help you get the most out of your charitable giving. HOME PRICES KEEP CLIMBING Most areas are on the upswing, but rising interest rates and the new tax law may slow the market. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BITCOIN Don’t invest more than you can afford to lose. ***