Planning and saving for college

Season 1 Episode 20

We’re approaching graduation season so, in this episode of Everyday Wealth, Soledad O’Brien and Jean Chatzky explore the topic of planning and saving for college. Edelman Financial Engines wealth planner Rose Niang joins the conversation to discuss financial aid, scholarships and the best and worst ways to pay for college. Later in the episode, Jean, Soledad and Rose talk to a caller who has a question about 529 plans, and then Jean walks through her book How to Money.

 

These callers are prerecorded and prescreened.

Neither Edelman Financial Engines, a division of Financial Engines Advisors L.L.C., nor its affiliates offer tax or legal advice. Interested parties are strongly encouraged to seek advice from qualified tax and/or legal experts regarding the best options for your particular circumstances.

 

 


Jean Chatzky

 

Meet the Host: Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky came to personal finance not as an economist or a financial planner but as a journalist who dug into the topic of money to get her own money in order as well as to earn a paycheck. She has the innate ability to take the complicated world of money and explain it in ways we can all understand. And this has never been more important than now because we all have more responsibility for our financial lives than any generation that came before us. Aside from hosting Everyday Wealth™, Jean is the CEO of HerMoney.com and host of the podcast HerMoney with Jean Chatzky. The financial editor of NBC's TODAY show for 25 years and the financial ambassador for AARP, she appears frequently on CNN and MSNBC and was a recurring guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author.